> These fools have WAY to much time on their hands. <
I see it a bit differently. Many of today’s liberals are really fascists. And this was a probe: Let’s see if we can get a symphony banned for not being up to our PC standards.
Recall how Laura Ingalls Wilder’s “Little House on the Prairie” book recently got banned from many libraries. The complainers weren’t bored readers. They were fascists trying to control society.
And these guys are winning round after round.
“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