Sounds Pretty "Normal" Today.
sadly true.
Heterodoxy gave me great satisfaction as an eager subscriber.
I was about to put - “This is a joke right?”. I must confess I was not sure - the way things are nowadays with the PC Police it is hard to tell!
"the Federal Race and Hate Crimes Correctional Facility on Wardâs Island"....that is sooo funny!
The author appears to have a good Handel on the situation.
For me, the giveaway was the word “dogma”. These days , the word is a pejorative outside of Catholic circles. So the the feds enforce it without using the word.
For me, the first giveaway was the name Musikant, which means “musician” in German.
If there are some who never heard of it, in 1968, a man named Walter Carlos (who later got a sex change and became Wendy Carlos) created an album of some of the more popular songs of J.S. Bach, played on the Moog Synthesizer. It was entitled Switched-On Bach, and was a major hit, selling half a million copies, the first classical album to do so. An example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi5-WRgA5GI
While you may not particularly enjoy synthesizer music as other than a novelty, at the time classical music was in the doldrums, and grand organs were dying out as an instrument, and the album significantly increased the popularity of both.