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<i>The Inextinguishable Symphony</i> Continues

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Published September 14, 2000 at 10:00 PM MDT

In the second of a two part interview, Host Bob Edwards talks with Martin Goldsmith former host of NPR's Performance Today, about his book The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany. The book recounts the life of Goldsmith's parents, who were members of the all-Jewish Kulturbund orchestras in Frankfurt and Berlin in Nazi Germany. Rosemarie Gumpert played viola; Gunther Goldschmidt played flute. (7:47) The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany by Martin Goldsmith is published by John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 04713