"Ahhhh, Bach!"
Posted on 02/19/2018 11:33:38 AM PST by bkopto
Over the week, there have been waves of backlash at The Metropolitan Opera’s newest season announcement. A recent Washington Post made the rounds, taking to task the institution’s insistence on an entirely white and male composer list, as well as a completely male roster of conductors taking the podium.
As a white man, there have been and continue to be countless times in which I have needed to recognize that privilege, white supremacy, homophobia, toxic masculinity, and gender normativity are layered issues. It’s easy to call a Nazi a racist because they are so obviously a racist. Not all racists are willing to take up that mantle.
Recognizing that Classical Music has implied White Supremacy for centuries is hard for those that study the art form. In fact, that correlating The Met’s continued programming of dead white men to the rise of White Supremacist tendencies in America is not a far stretch is starting to become apparent to those that follow and review the company’s season announcements.
Of course Italian Opera traditions are rich and are the backbone for many composers, but when an American institution, founded on the grounds of Natives and whose nation’s economy was fueled by the labor of slavery continues in 2018 to program exclusively white men, there’s a message being sent to those who don’t fall into that category.
“You need to prove yourself extraordinary, so work harder and watch your step.”
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Bach will endure forever. There’s no getting rid of him. He is jamming in heaven right now, with instruments we can’t imagine.
I like that one and also Mozart’s No. 22 in E-Flat Major.
Another self hating Beta male or Charlie Male if gender dysfunction goes that far down the line.
Just wait until the boycottts begin of White symphony orchestra recordings from Europe.
Then nuclear fission begins with the boycotts and even defunding of University classical FM stations and their fund raising drives.
Another self hating Beta male or Charlie Male if gender dysfunction goes that far down the line.
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Guys like Jay Z and Snoop Dog could have chosen to study Mozart.
They did not.
The Nazis banned Mendelsohn because he was ethnically Jewish (although he converted to Christianity) as well as all Jewish composers and performers.
Looks like the Left is doing the same thing here.
Try to produce something then, instead of just complaining. Until then, Bach+Beethoven+Mozart+Brahms win hands down.
Praeludium #1. Piano.
from JS Bach.
Simple, soothing, yet adventurous, as it takes us through all the octave levels.
Many piano teachers start their students out on this one.
If classical music is dominated by white European males and that’s a bad thing, why don’t the PTB adopt some pieces from the Wakanda symphony orchestra?
self ping
The classical theme is love persevering trial. The theme of rap is Hate porn
The Met can do Porgy and Bess. There problem solved.
No thanks.
PUKE!
Alfred Brendel, Merek Janowski conducting the NHK Symphony Orchestra in a 1985 performance from Tokyo.
... but they have to come up with their own instruments. I'm pretty sure that most, if not all, of the orchestral instruments were created by men ... and white men at that.
Only instruments that can be traced to African, Native American, Native Central/South American, or aboriginal societies can be used in these non-White "classical" pieces.
"Hamilton" is a modern example.
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