If Shakespeare was alive today he would probably have Hamlet tell Rosencrantz: ‘There is nothing either good or bad, but marketing makes it so’. This is relevant to some of the several themes of Dr Tr€umpi’s scholarly and sobering book, which is a cultural study as much as a musical one. They include political and ideological or nationalist concerns as well as those issues of sociological and musical salesmanship. The political and amoral rivalries of the two capital cities of those two bellicose nations are always part of the glowering historical sky, as well as their compliant orchestras which unedifyingly supported the politics and jealousies of those rival r egimes. Tr€umpi puts a little quote at the head of each chapter, and the one for Chapter 3 (‘Continuous Radicalization under Austrofascism and National Socialism’) seems to me to encapsulate the gestalt of his concerns well:

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政治乐队：第三帝国时期的维也纳和柏林爱乐乐团

如果莎士比亚今天还活着，那么他可能会让哈姆雷特告诉罗森克兰茨：“好事与坏事都没有，但营销使它如此。” 这与Trumpi博士的学术著作和清醒著作中的几个主题有关，这本书既是文化研究，也是音乐研究。这些问题包括政治和意识形态或民族主义问题，以及社会和音乐推销技巧问题。这两个好战国家的两个首都的政治和不道德竞争始终是灿烂的历史天空的一部分，而顺从的乐团也一直在为这些竞争对手的政治和嫉妒行为提供统一的支持。特鲁比（Tr€umpi）在每一章的开头都加了一点引号，