GRGR(5) - Webern's death (was Cherokee and bebop)

[j minnich]

Heikke wrote:
>       
>Sure. Right in the middle of Beethoven-Rossini debate. I don't have _GR_,
>or companion before me know, but as I gave a talk on those two pages in
>Helsinki *exactly* six months ago, I still remember that the Viking pages
>in question are 440-441. In fact, Webern's status as the "end of the
>German dialectic" is crucial to _GR_ as a whole. Where could one go 
>after Webern? (Who gets murdered in _GR_ by some "mess cook from North
>Carolina" -- some months before than in "real life", as Weisenburger
>points out.) 
>
>

Yeah, last night I kept wondering where that bit about Webern's death was,
and finally I thought maybe it was in the
Berlin-dope-smoking-discussions-with-Saure Bummer.  Page 441, now that
you've pointed me to it, was one of the funniest parts of the book, I used
to think.  Those descriptions of concert-goers "farting through their
dentures" and "doddering in the aisles!"   ...Now, Tom, about that
verisimilitude.  Are we to believe that there was actually a pre-beat,
bohemian, dope-smoking sub-culture in Germany during and shortly after the
war?  Or is this question simply beside the point?  Does anybody have any
real data on this?
                        -j minnich