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"open Latter te the Bead of she Ae’ Bepartme _ Hat te arente art, a : tt a. Heisrieh burchard, Paul E:ndenith, Geers denecoemmsn a ; Tou refuse to assume responsibility for the “presentation ‘ef our ; new 1 educations play, upon which we had previously agreed, to your “program ecamittee”, a body which is unknown te uss and you request us to sulmi$ the text to this comittes for the purpose of dispersing dovbts of a polities! nature. - eontrel you adé is exorcised in ali eases) Wo refuse to do this. Fata is the reasons = If you wish to contime ‘your no-inpertant presentations, in which yu bing o up for discussion new ways of apilying music, then you mst {a no case be financially dependext on people er institutions whe forbid from the vary . begirmming go-and=s0 many ond perhaps not the worst types of application fer other than artistic reasons. As little as it is your artistic duty to eriticize the police, let us say, even so little would it be advisable to allow your artistic functions to be financed by the polices You expose thm to the possible censorship ef the pelise. That is te say, the new typos of music haa purposes which the State does not forbid, to be sure, but which - it can not exactly finance. Let us be antisfied when the police president: does not forbid our works. sah met poe Far a $0 Femuere Noe pt the r police orchestra. wn et co tae Da: Anmey, we are at ‘last at the place which we have olwaya Jenged fers aan Haven't we always salled for art for laymen? Haven't we long had Aoubts . er about these = * apparatusess wate ere. lanpored Ww a Jmundred doubtat aoe sind Tyee Laue 1 remove ‘these inportent sreneutasSons ‘tron all 1 ties a poratt ¢ then to de done by those for whom they were intended, end who alone have ues for thea: Yorkers choruses, groups of amateur players, school ehoruses, school orchestras; thus, those whe neither Py for art nor are > paid for arke | but whe ie “ te —_ y . 5 ay a . : he Sec eec® untacctend & weer , ISU Musy WHusTseenE thet your resign ation se the “Neus Musik, Berlin 1930° would do mre at eensorship, in the present situation, t than. your festival again in the sumer of 1950. /e/ BERTOLD BRECHT and HANNS EISLER ae ee ee ee ao