I'll be Bach.
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 went through a period when the latter was mentioned in conversation would have to ask "Robert or William? I really liked William Schuman's music at one time. But like Robert, found the composer hit and miss. Could never dedicate the time and effort to anything beyond the "Symphonic Etudes" and "Carnival" or Robert's to memory on piano. Maybe a couple of tunes from "Fantasiestucke".
Bach and Chopin remain in rotation every day and Beethoven most days.
The only one of Bach’s children I can remember offhand is P.D.Q. Bach.
Ach!
Hahaha! Thanks for posting that!
The first five years or so of M*A*S*H is some of the best laugh-out-loud comedy ever put on film.
I thought they told us his first name was ”Racist.” :)
What? Did Bob Beethoven complain that Ludwig gets all the attention?
Beethoven Has a First Name ...
It’s O-S-C-A-R.
:) He was a busy lad.
Does this make sense to anyone?
Because without "full naming" Beethoven, I might wind up at a concert by lesser-known composer Larry Beethoven.
Shut up. Just shut up.
History Legends too please!!.... eg: “Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot — who had nearly fought the Dragon of Angnor, who had nearly stood up to the Vicious Chicken of Bristol, and who had personally wet himself at the Battle of Badon Hill”
Sing to the tune of “Minuet in G” from Anna Magdalena Bach’s Notebook:
Johann was such a genius that
He wrote ten thousand pieces
Trios and duets
Oratorios and Minuets
His lyrics were in German, and
I don’t even know if they rhyme.
He had eighteen children, and I don’t know
When he found the time.
Technically, it’s Alma Weurful Gropius Mahler.
Arthur too?
Ludwig Van Morrison?
:) honestly he was a busy lad!
Hee Hee Hee.
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