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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1570, 27 May 1920, Page 5

The British Music Society, yielding to a storm of objections, has deleted Richard Strauss’s “Hero’s Life” from the programmes of the forthcoming concerts. The society’s council pleads that it only intended to show the badness of the music of Germany’s greatest modern composer compared with the British. _ It is stated that Strauss was partly chosen because the council was unable to find band parts for “Gott Strafe England.”