RobSS Posted September 20, 2021 Share Posted September 20, 2021 How an English orchestra conducts ethnic cleansing: https://slippedisc.com/2021/09/how-an-english-orchestra-conducts-ethnic-cleansing/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobSS Posted September 20, 2021 Author Share Posted September 20, 2021 Interesting comments in the comments section of the above linked to article. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobSS Posted September 20, 2021 Author Share Posted September 20, 2021 They are trying to cancel classical music: https://slippedisc.com/2021/09/new-frank-furedi-essay-they-are-cancelling-classical-music/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobSS Posted September 20, 2021 Author Share Posted September 20, 2021 A London Professor of Music History and Theory has resigned over 'woke' musicology: https://slippedisc.com/2021/09/exclusive-london-professor-resigns-over-woke-musicology/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macnamara Posted September 22, 2021 Share Posted September 22, 2021 (edited) On 9/20/2021 at 4:17 PM, RobSS said: How an English orchestra conducts ethnic cleansing: set up your own parallel communities, systems and orchestras live outside of the woke politically correct clown-world bubble by simply organising your own events and groups and carrying on as normal If you are kicked out of an orchestra then create your own orchestra for those that have been ejected. If you are blocked from a school or leave a tenured post out of principle then create your own school or university or learning establishment (you have the internet at your disposal get creative) If you are kicked out of healthcare because you did not take the covid jab then team up with others and create your own health care provider Edited September 22, 2021 by Macnamara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobSS Posted September 23, 2021 Author Share Posted September 23, 2021 (edited) Norman Lebrecht's latest post on the ETO fiasco: Let's end all racism: https://slippedisc.com/2021/09/english-touring-opera-has-lost-its-voice/ Interesting comments in the comments section worth browsing... Edited September 23, 2021 by RobSS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnigmaticWorld Posted September 23, 2021 Share Posted September 23, 2021 Nothing is ever good enough. On 11/30/2020 at 6:08 PM, EnigmaticWorld said: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truthspoon Posted September 23, 2021 Share Posted September 23, 2021 1 hour ago, EnigmaticWorld said: Nothing is ever good enough. Lol...so they have to be racist.......to not be racist..... Hmmmmm. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobSS Posted September 23, 2021 Author Share Posted September 23, 2021 2 hours ago, EnigmaticWorld said: Nothing is ever good enough. It's not good, but thankfully, not all opera companies and orchestras are like that. What the world's going through at the moment is just liminal. "All these are the beginning of birth pains." (Matthew 24:8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobSS Posted October 2, 2021 Author Share Posted October 2, 2021 (edited) The MU's getting involved: https://slippedisc.com/2021/09/musicians-union-faces-down-racist-english-touring-opera/ Edited October 2, 2021 by RobSS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobSS Posted October 5, 2021 Author Share Posted October 5, 2021 (edited) Not strictly related to the ETO, but still to do with classical music... Richard Strauss over in Germany: https://slippedisc.com/2021/10/munich-is-urged-to-cancel-richard-strauss-due-to-nazi-past/ Edited October 5, 2021 by RobSS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonlight Posted October 5, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2021 2 hours ago, RobSS said: Not strictly related to the ETO, but still to do with classical music... Richard Strauss over in Germany: https://slippedisc.com/2021/10/munich-is-urged-to-cancel-richard-strauss-due-to-nazi-past/ Richard Strauss was not a A Grade Nazi - if he was even I live in a Street named after a Nazi but the street is not renamed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobSS Posted October 5, 2021 Author Share Posted October 5, 2021 (edited) 39 minutes ago, Moonlight said: Richard Strauss was not a A Grade Nazi - if he was even I live in a Street named after a Nazi but the street is not renamed You must be in Germany... renaming a street causes many kinds of problems, so people are reluctant to do it, or is there another reason why it hasn't been renamed? There were a lot of people in the arts who weren't A grade Nazi's, but who remained in Germany. Being a party member could be hugely beneficial for your career and not being a member, a great disadvantage, so influencers could be Nazis without necessarily believing in the ideology. One of the most famous sopranos of the period, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, remained in Germany leading up to and during WWII. Quote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_Schwarzkopf "There was criticism that Schwarzkopf, not only in the years immediately after the war but also in confrontation with revelations made in the 1980s and 1990s made contradictory statements, including in regard to her membership in the NSDAP (Member No. 7,548,960). At first, she denied this and then with varying explanations defended it. In one version, for example, she claimed that she joined the party only at the insistence of her father who, himself, had earlier lost his position as school principal after forbidding a Nazi program in the school. Further publications discussed her musical performances during the war before Nazi party conferences and for units of the Waffen-SS. Her defenders argue in favor of her claim that she always strictly separated art from politics and that she was a non-political person." She continued to have a good post-war career, not only in Germany but all round the world... Schwarzkopf in Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier (1962, purple dress on the right): Edited October 5, 2021 by RobSS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonlight Posted October 5, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2021 Im in Munich one of the most famous was Heinz Rühmann...but he did no Propaganda Movies. He divorced his Jewish wife when the Nazis came to power for his career. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Moonlight Posted October 5, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2021 Leni Riefenstahl - Hitlers Camera Woman was an actress too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobSS Posted October 5, 2021 Author Share Posted October 5, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, Moonlight said: Im in Munich one of the most famous was Heinz Rühmann...but he did no Propaganda Movies. He divorced his Jewish wife when the Nazis came to power for his career. Guten Abend, I was in Munich in the mid-1980's and again fairly recently. I found the difference quite dramatic. The city centre in the mid '80's I always recalled as being very beautiful and 'old-world', but after my recent visit, I was a bit shocked to see how much things have changed. Schwabing, which used to be the Bohemian quarter, had also changed... so much gentrification. I still found many things that filled me with wonder, such as the Residenz Palace, which seemed in better condition than ever. Another famous musician with Nazi associations was the conductor, Herbert von Karajan. "During the entire Nazi era he "never hesitated to open his concerts with the Nazi favorite "Horst-Wessel-Lied", but "always maintained he joined strictly for career reasons." [source] Edited October 5, 2021 by RobSS 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonlight Posted October 6, 2021 Share Posted October 6, 2021 Schwabing is one of the most expensive corners in Munich I work there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobSS Posted October 6, 2021 Author Share Posted October 6, 2021 Schwabing is still the best part of Munich for choice of good restaurants! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobSS Posted October 7, 2021 Author Share Posted October 7, 2021 I've just been rereading the story about Hildebrand Gurlitt who hoarded a huge number of masterpiece works of art that were looted by the Nazis. I'm sure you know the story but in 2014, the police found about 1,500 modernist masterpieces in the flat of an 60 year-old man who lived in Schwabing - the biggest artistic find in the postwar era: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/03/nazis-looted-modernist-masterpieces-germany-police American soldiers are pictured discovering one of Hildebrandt Gurlitt’s enormous art stash during the war. Although they suspected him of dealing in Nazi art, they let him go. Image is in the public domain via TheDailyMail..co.uk/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonlight Posted October 8, 2021 Share Posted October 8, 2021 yes I know about this story....my Boss was offered an interview about that case 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firebird Posted October 11, 2021 Share Posted October 11, 2021 On 9/20/2021 at 4:36 PM, RobSS said: They are trying to cancel classical music: https://slippedisc.com/2021/09/new-frank-furedi-essay-they-are-cancelling-classical-music/ Of course they are. And they replace it with gangsta music that glorifies rape and murder, and women dressed like hookers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobSS Posted October 11, 2021 Author Share Posted October 11, 2021 (edited) 2 hours ago, Firebird said: Of course they are. And they replace it with gangsta music that glorifies rape and murder, and women dressed like hookers. Of course because a lot of classical music is uplifting and good for the soul. Can't have that. Give the masses the Maschinenmensch instead! Edited October 11, 2021 by RobSS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobSS Posted October 14, 2021 Author Share Posted October 14, 2021 Will Turandot get grief from the race police at the Met? Always drama in the opera world and plenty more in the comments section! https://slippedisc.com/2021/10/will-turandot-give-the-met-grief-from-the-race-police/ Meanwhile, drama in the wings... Airline pilot saves Paris orchestra: https://slippedisc.com/2021/10/air-france-pilot-saves-paris-orchestra/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobSS Posted October 19, 2021 Author Share Posted October 19, 2021 A head rolls... ETO update: https://slippedisc.com/2021/10/head-rolls-at-english-touring-opera/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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