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barricades of Berlin and Vienna. With the songs of Risler they demonstrated in Zurich and Antwerp. With the songs [CONFI Tl | of Eisler they stood in picket lines in Copenhagen « end |} Manchester. SBisler finished his education brilliantly. Everything . pushed the composer towards an easy road of life. But he did not take it. Too disgusting to him was the bourgeois concert hall where, in a musioal narcosis, the gourmands made their discoveries with relish. 4 feeling of anarchist protest awoke in the young composer. - "In 1927 Risler wholeheartedly entered the proletariat *acgitpropgroup' (agitation propaganda group) movement and began work as @ politioal music journalist. "Song of the Miner,! 'Invalid's Maroh,' ‘Song of Solidarity, ‘march 'Defend the Soviet Union,’ ‘Song of the Unemployed," this is only a small part of the great list of Bisler's political songs. Unfortunately, only a few of them are published by us. > - “With all of his natural fighting tenperamant, Risler tore into the reformistio song group, forming a communis- tio wing. The battie was successful. It drew the atten- _ tion of the entire musical world, gathered travelers, and cultivated such revolutionary musicians as Rankel, Fogle . and Volpe. : Pat the sme tine, « atrong tie was forned between Eisler and dramaturgist Bert Brecht. Together thay worked out the theory of the ‘pedagogic’ theater, wishing to maks it especially active in the work of "pola thoal agitation and propaganda. | *. eHow he is writing a symphony dedicated to the prisoners of fascist concentration omps, based on the ‘gong of the Swamp Soldier' and composed by the Saptives. "He has been with us before. He wade notes on Karak melodies on the steps by Nt. Magnitnmei where the Young Com- « muntttks were building « blast furnace. It my about then he wrote the Ural Young Communist. * "He has traveled in Kurope and in ‘smart. Everywhere his arrival awakened the revolutionary movement of music and the choir. Kisler's song is the song of political warrior. New York University has invited hin to a profes- sorabhip. 4. if \ "Eisler om help many in the Soviet choral movencnt. “8° ~ BON PPENTIAL