A planned performance of the music of Richard Wagner in Israel has<br />been abruptly canceled following an apparent disagreement between the<br />presenter and Tel Aviv University. The University pulled the plug on<br />the performance, contending the Israel Wagner Society concealed the<br />fact it would have featured the music of Wagner and that people have<br />expressed anger over the planned performance. The June 18 event was<br />supposed to have been an academic symposium at Tel Aviv University<br />devoted to Wagner, conductor Arturo Toscanini and Theodor Herzl.<br />Wagner has long been considered taboo in Israel because of the<br />composer's anti-Semitic personal views. Wagner was also one of the<br />favorite composers of Hitler.
