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Posted on 10/25/2020 1:08:55 PM PDT by Borges
There will be a time when we’ll go to concerts again. We will buy our tickets, shuffle shoulder to shoulder down the aisle, and find our seats. The lights will dim, and the conductor will walk onto the stage to introduce the program. They might talk about Beethoven, Schumann, and Bartók. And they might talk about Alma Mahler, Florence Price, Henry Burleigh, and Caroline Shaw. Many of us, used to the conventions of classical performance, will hardly notice the difference: “traditional” white male composers being introduced with only surnames, full names for everyone else, especially women and composers of color.
The habitual, two-tiered way we talk about classical composers is ubiquitous. For instance, coverage of an early October livestream by the Louisville Orchestra praised the ensemble’s performance of a “Beethoven” symphony, and the debut of a composition memorializing Breonna Taylor by “Davóne Tines” and “Igee Dieudonné.” But ubiquity doesn’t make something right. It’s time we paid attention to the inequity inherent in how we talk about composers, and it’s time for the divided naming convention to change.
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I don’t see a problem. It’s part of how we handle fame. People with BIG names are ONE name. Shakespeare, Austin, Bronte. And in more modern times. if we’re talking rock and roll and I say Townsend, or Page, or Zappa, or Beck. You can tell this one name thing is valid by the fact none of those names I’ve put in trigger the spell checker. That’s how big these names are, they’re in the freaking dictionary.
Stop looking for logic. This is virtue signaling Critical Theory idiocy.
Fine. Play and study and promote the music of lesser-known composers, and when they become well-known enough, they can be referred to by their last names too. I’m afraid, though, that Alma Mahler is always going to be Alma Mahler.
I learned it as “van Beethoven”.
‘Just checked, and “van” is correct.
I don’t see a problem. It’s part of how we handle fame. People with BIG names are ONE name. Shakespeare, Austin, Bronte.
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...and Trump! (who refers to himself as “Trump” all the time).
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Alma Mahler? Isn’t that the name of my old college?
Well, I don’t know whether “Chris,” author of the piece, is male or female. All I know is that he/she is an idiot.
Get more famous. Like Madonna, Beyoncé, Shakira, Whitney, etc.
P.S. Victor, is that you?
Worse and worse... No end in sight...
Etiquette of the time of Beethoven said that one should not use a Christian name until properly introduced.
Will you morons STOP.
If AOC ever does anything for her state, nation or planet that makes her famous THEN she can be remembered with one name..
Like Eva.
Like Golda.
Like Cleopatra (yes that’s not her full name)
Until then - it’s far time we STOP getting history lessons from idiots that actively suppress it!
Can you name Bach’s children?
:)
But not Beyoncé
But there is more then one Bronte. Charlotte and Emily of course being more well known then Anne. Although I personally liked “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall” better.
:)
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