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ye ‘ i Bogs | seal aes pp ee re ee meee me ee eae ~ oe Cc. | C) "in 1627 ZSiSLER wholchoartedly cntcrod the GON tZriat ‘agitpropgroup’ (a;it tien propigands group) movement and began werk ce oa political music journslist. tt Son: she Fincr,! 'Invalid's Lereh,! ‘Song of Solidarity,’ morch the Soviet Union,' 'Song ef the Unemployod,' this is only a smll tho great list of SISLER's political songs. Unfortunately, only a thom ire published bu us. Yu : , - ith all of his natural fighting temperarent, ZISLER tora into tho refcrvastiec song creup, fersing a conmunistio wing. Tho battle wns success- ft jres tho attention of the extire musical world, gathored travelers, ivatead such revoluticnary musiciaunc as FRANKEL, FOGLE and VOLPE. ut strong tie wes formed between EISLER and drema- thor they worked out the theory of tne 'pedagosic’ it especially sctive in the work of political agi- wo r * ter gist Shi. cue, To¢ : - aa We eG sir, WLen i fs) teticn snd prep.econda, Pe . "p musiccol spectecic, 'Highest Standard', hercin particularly applicatla to vclitiesl genre, tritten by EISLIN from BRECKI's play, marks the composer's change from the peliticel platform to the grandiose musical fern. ‘Highest Standard! -- a rzture preduction of an impertant, indepondont master. uw a ~ Vo weee Kew ne is writing « symohery dedicated to the prisoners of fascist concentration carps, based cn the 'Scng of tho Swamp Soldicr' and compesed by the captives ww "Ke has bocn with us before. Ho made notes on Kazak melodies on the steos by lt. lugnitnoi wkero the Young Communists were building co bicst furnace. It “ms about thom he wrote the 'Ural Yeung Communist 9 A Neo has traveled in Durope and in Amcrica. Everywhere his arrival avolionad the revolutionary mevenont of music and th rc choir. SISL=RA's song” is the song of political warrior. Wew York University has invited him to a - oa protfesso rshipy u "Tt is to our sheme that wo know little of CISLER's creative works, and this in no small wey is the fault of the provious mamgoment of tho Stato ltasic -Publishing House. fter cll, he was an ascomplished mastcr, chicf ef the movemont of revolutior: ary music. Wo want to nesr more of E_SLER's work on cur stages and in our concert hells. We mst publish his compesiticns, especially his se ASS » here, porticularly since it is very difficult to havo them pyblisned abrocd. Yu . "DISLER can help meny in tho Sovict choral moveront. Our nation nocds songs and knows Row te value a goo@ onc. This is obvious in EISLak's 'Cemintern,!' dccply imbcdded in our golden song fund. "Ku -10-