[Nick Zwar]

I don’t check if a composer’s political, ethical, religious or philosophical believes align with my own. I mean, sometimes I know of course. Take Richard Wagner, by all means a “problematic” personality. Yet the problems are not manifest in his music, which is glorious.
The thin is we’re all flawed, all human, all fallible. You start purging art based on the sins of the artist, you end up with silence. There’d be no movies to watch and no film scores to be performed if everybody in cast and crew and orchestra needed to be sinless.
That doesn’t mean I would accept, support or tolerate everything, certainly not. If someone actively supports a cause that not only goes highly against my own convictions but even opposes them, and that even shows in the art, it’s less likely that person will find my support.
But Bernard Herrmann? He sure was a thorny, spiky personality, but I don’t remember anything he did that would make me appreciate his music less.