Posted on 06/05/2019 9:35:54 AM PDT by Borges
“The point of recapitulation in the first movement of the Ninth is one of the most horrifying moments in music, as the carefully prepared cadence is frustrated, damming up energy which finally explodes in the throttling murderous rage of a rapist incapable of attaining release.” - musicologist Susan McClary
No, let’s NOT give it a rest. Let’s give Teraud (whoever he thinks he is) a rest.
Enough of these posers and their virtue-signaling.
I bet Hitler liked sauerkraut too.
That means we cannot eat it, lest we become Nazis.
Well, I guess poor Schroeder is going to have to be exiled from the Peanuts comic now, isn’t he?
Eh, let’s not. As long as we’re not singing “Deutschland, Deutschland uber Alles” to the music, it’s fine.
Hmmmmm!
The spirits evoked by the Beethoven masterpiece are the exact opposite of the Socialist quest for a regimented humanity. Think about it!!
....the lovely Christmas music “O Tannenbaum” is also the tune for “The Red Flag”.
Such garbage. So many fallacies, so little space to squeeze them into.
Is there ANYTHING in Western Civilization that they don’t want us to scrap? Maybe we should all don loincloths, daub mud on our bodies, and jump around the campfire screaming blood curdling yells while pounding on hollow logs. Ummm...nope, no good, that would be appropriating another culture, too.
How awful to go through life perpetually aggrieved. Not one of these cretins has ever provided a blueprint of a society that they would deem worthy.
This would be the canuck’s sweet dream:
“In order to avoid Russian censorship, Finlandia had to be performed under alternative names at various musical concerts. Titles under which the piece masqueraded were numerous and often confusing —famous examples include Happy Feelings at the awakening of Finnish Spring, and A Scandinavian Choral March.”
—Wikipedia
Those cursed Finns struggling to maintain a national identity.
This fascist would probably applaud these bannings as well, all directed at national identity.
https://www.talkclassical.com/17881-music-banned.html
After 40-plus years as a classical buff, I have arrived at a point where I find the Ninth to be a bit overwhelming.
Particularly, I have never “gotten” the slow movement. This is odd because Beethoven knew very well how to write slow movements that never drag.
Take for instance the funeral march in the Eroica and the second movement of the Fifth, that calm and meditative break from the fireworks of DAH-DAH-DAH-DUM!!!!
But the slow movement of the Ninth drags so badly that I can hardly remember a single note.
As for Hitler liking the Ninth? I read that he was particularly fond of the Bruckner Seventh ... and if you can find me a composer less political than Anton Bruckner, please tell me. Bruckner was an organist and his symphonies all sound like he’s playing stings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion like some big pipe organ.
Upon googling the author “John Turauds” we learn he supposedly is a classical music scholar.
Upon a cursory reading of this opinion piece, we realize he contradicts, & essentially shoots down, his own argument.
Namely, that the lovely & triumphant Ode to Joy, along with the classically liberal ideas of tolerance and melting-pot diversity have been co-opted & subverted by tyrants, is an argument, not for tossing them all into the dustbin of history, but rather in favor of reclaiming these noble benchmarks & setting them aright.
I like Sousa marches the best.
I have the distinct feeling that that man should not be donating blood ...
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