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British conductor sacked by US music festival after 'innocent' joke with his [tr]
UK Telegraph ^ | September 9, 2017 | Patrick Sawer

Posted on 09/11/2017 7:33:45 AM PDT by C19fan

An acclaimed British conductor has been fired from a prestigious American music festival after a seemingly innocent joke he made to a black friend was labelled racist.

Matthew Halls was removed as artistic director of the Oregon Bach Festival following an incident in which he imitated a southern American accent while talking to his longstanding friend, the African-American classical singer Reginald Mobley.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Society
KEYWORDS: ahaintnowaystard; race; virtuesignalling
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21 posted on 09/11/2017 7:59:47 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: C19fan

Well Matthew Halls - you aint no Hillary Clinton - don’t you know.


22 posted on 09/11/2017 8:01:42 AM PDT by RichyTea (To those offended - take off your blinders)
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To: C19fan
I suspect this is fake news....??? (The Shrinking Oregon Bach Festival)

UDGING by its 2017 program, the Oregon Bach Festival has made substantial cutbacks in programing in the post-Helmuth Rilling era. The German conductor, who co-founded the festival with the University of Oregon’s Royce Saltzman in 1971, retired in 2013. He was succeeded by the highly regarded conductor Matthew Halls.

The most pressing concerns are a decline in ticket sales, a reduction in the number of performances at the city’s major concert venue, and a substantial cut in the number of performances by professional musicians. It’s hard to know which of these developments are cause and which are effect. But either way, this year’s scaled-back schedule offers fewer choices for patrons and also raises questions about the festival’s future.

(On August 22, Oregon Cultural Trust awarded OBF) a creativity grant of $31,246 to support the commission and world premiere of The Passion of Yeshua, a new work by Richard Danielpour, and to engage the community in productive, cross-cultural dialogue. Generous spring donors lifted Oregon Cultural Trust fundraising to a new high, resulting in a record $2.94 million in grants to 136 cultural nonprofits for fiscal year 2017-18. The awards include a total of $735,887 to the Cultural Trust’s five Statewide Partners (Oregon Arts Commission, Oregon Heritage Commission, Oregon Humanities, Oregon Historical Society and the State Historic Preservation Office); $735,887 to 45...)

Actors use of patois is an art....anyone else smell a rat here? I wonder why......

23 posted on 09/11/2017 8:05:20 AM PDT by yoe
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To: neverevergiveup
I hope someone is keeping track and cataloguing this craziness. In the future, people won't believe it otherwise.

I have close friends from China. The stories they tell me about their childhood during Mao's Cultural Revolution are exactly this. The stories are unbelievable. A female friend told me when growing up in Beijing, a relative overseas bought her some leather shoes (when most people wore cloth shoes). She wore them to kindergarten. Her teacher organized a "struggle session" within the class to criticize her (a five year old) for having bourgeois attitudes.

We are going through a slow-moving version of the same thing.

24 posted on 09/11/2017 8:05:31 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: PGR88

Funny how a generation later, the Chinese went in the opposite direction.


25 posted on 09/11/2017 8:06:46 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: C19fan

This isn’t about race. It’s just an effort to beat us into submission so that we’re ready for the ultimate takeover by Islam.

See: Europe.


26 posted on 09/11/2017 8:07:23 AM PDT by moovova
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To: C19fan
Per the article, he made a joke about grits in a fake Southern accent and the libtard woman thought it was racist. I guess no white folks be eating grits in her neighborhood.


27 posted on 09/11/2017 8:07:59 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: C19fan

Then he said in an Austrian accent, “I’ll be Bach.”


28 posted on 09/11/2017 8:16:08 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Take Covfefe Ree Zig!)
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To: Flycatcher

LOL


29 posted on 09/11/2017 8:21:20 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: PGR88
“We are going through a slow-moving version of the same thing.”

I agree, and the hatred and resentment that fueled the Chinese cultural revolution is alive and well here at this point in our history. I have zero doubt that if given a green light (or even a yellow light) there are literally 100s of thousands or even millions in the US that would have no problem running through the neighborhoods of those more affluent than them, destroying property, looting/stealing, and even killing those they've been brought up to believe are permissible to hate.

30 posted on 09/11/2017 8:25:26 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: RightGeek

Grits? Pffft!!!

Fry them up like a freaking snob. Stuff them with gooey cheese and shrimp then voila!

Polenta...


31 posted on 09/11/2017 8:25:57 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: C19fan

Folks should read this story

Incredible how white liberals are today

Insane

They no longer believe in God

Virtue signaling is their God

We got some posters here that way

I do the favor of listing a few on my homepage

Gregarious me

The southern black tenor should refuse to perform till they reinstate his friend

I mean really


32 posted on 09/11/2017 8:31:14 AM PDT by wardaddy (Virtue signalers should be shot on sight...conservative ones racked and hanged then fed to dogs)
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To: yoe

You suspect wrong

Google it


33 posted on 09/11/2017 8:33:53 AM PDT by wardaddy (Virtue signalers should be shot on sight...conservative ones racked and hanged then fed to dogs)
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To: C19fan
The most disturbing thing is that some woman felt compelled to "report" this to "authorities". Stasi, stasi, stasi.

That woman must have grown up in the PC school system as a teacher's pet. She is probably hoping for a gold star for her forehead. Truly shameful behavior.
 

34 posted on 09/11/2017 8:34:35 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: Larry Lucido

That was very good Larry


35 posted on 09/11/2017 8:34:39 AM PDT by wardaddy (Virtue signalers should be shot on sight...conservative ones racked and hanged then fed to dogs)
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To: C19fan
My black friends and I share racist jokes all the time.

SMH

Snowflakes.

36 posted on 09/11/2017 8:39:45 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: dfwgator
Funny how a generation later, the Chinese went in the opposite direction.

Mao and the Communists created a world where materialism was the only god. They also destroyed all bonds of civil society and anything outside of government, and made politics preeminent among all things. Finally, they also made government extremely bureaucratic and corrupt. So they attitude is simply - take care of me and mine, and money is the only thing that can be counted on.

37 posted on 09/11/2017 8:44:03 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Teacher317
My black friends and I share racist jokes all the time.

I man I know (white) has owned a business for 30 years with a man, who happens to be black. They are quite successful, and both started out together from nothing.

They have an act they sometimes do when traveling together on airplanes. The black guy is sitting in his seat, and the other guy comes along and says "Hey, I don't want to sit next to a black guy." The black guy then accuses him of being a Grand Wizard in the KKK. Then they all have a laugh after watching reaction of people around them.

They will admit they won't do it on airplanes now after 9/11.

38 posted on 09/11/2017 8:53:27 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: C19fan

Should have been fired. Fake Southern accents sounds like the person has a sponge in their mouth. Why didnt he do a fake ghetto accent? Good bye!


39 posted on 09/11/2017 8:54:33 AM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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To: C19fan

Bleephole was probably denigrating southerners with his imitation


40 posted on 09/11/2017 8:56:17 AM PDT by uncbob
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