Tel Aviv Wagner concert cancelled after wave of protest

University cancels booking, saying performance of works by Hitler's favourite composer would offend Holocaust survivorsIt was intended to break a seven-decade unofficial boycott and smash an enduring cultural symbol of the Nazi era. But the first performance of works by Richard Wagner, Hitler's favourite composer, by an Israeli symphony orchestra in the Jewish state was never likely to be a harmonious event.And now it has been thwarted. Tel Aviv University, the venue for a symposium on the Germa...

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