In a previous post on the opera Napoleon by Edmund von Borck, I made the argument that this opera works as a piece of wartime propaganda. The only piece of the opera that doesn’t fulfill the propaganda use is the style of the music and the use the saxophone in the orchestration. Wasn’t the saxophoneContinue reading “Nazis, Napoleon and the Saxophone, pt. 2, how Nazis weaponized gender to change the image of the saxophone”
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Nazis, Napoleon, and the Saxophone, how Edmund von Borck’s 1942 opera, “Napoleon” is the perfect wartime propaganda
Last month, Jonas who is a saxophone student in Norway, wrote to me to tell me about Edmund von Borck’s operas and how they were missing in my list. He pointed to Dr. Wildy Zumwalt’s dissertation on Edmund von Borck and how I can find more info there. The opera that stood out to meContinue reading “Nazis, Napoleon, and the Saxophone, how Edmund von Borck’s 1942 opera, “Napoleon” is the perfect wartime propaganda”
the Operatic Saxophone 