Music is made up of Pitches, Frequencies, Intervals, Harmonies, Rhythms, Tempi, Contrast between Legato and Staccato, Dynamics, and an ephemeral quality known as “soul”.
How antisemitism can be conveyed with any combination of the above is a mystery to me!
Of course, when one adds LYRICS, one can say anything!
But the music itself is neutral.
His grandson needs to step up to the plate and edit out the anti-Semitic ones. I've always been suspicious of C flat. It's pretentious.
Exactly. If you separate Streisand's singing from her politics, you have great music. Verdi's "La donna è mobile" is a tremendous aria, but misogynistic in its lyric, etc, etc.