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2022-04-10 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

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[ColonelCassad] During the Great Patriotic War, Goethe was not withdrawn from any Soviet library. No orchestra has excluded Wagner from the repertoire.

Not true, actually. The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra refused to perform Wagner from Kristallnacht in 1938 until 2012.

And today Russia also does not refuse either Taras Shevchenko or Lesya Ukrainka.

Nobody cancels Twain and Dreiser. No one thinks of throwing O'Henry out of the libraries. No one will ever cancel William Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde, despite the fact that both are English, and one of them is completely homosexual.

We loved, we love and we will love. We value them not because of their nationality, sexual orientation or attitude towards slavery. But because they are more than the British or Americans, more than adherents of any political views.

They are the property of the world. And ours too. By accepting samples of world culture, we do not impoverish our own, but enrich it.

By canceling Dostoevsky or Tchaikovsky, the West does not take anything from Russia - only from itself.

Agreed.

Because we are talking about a world heritage to which the Americans, the British, the Russians, and representatives of many other countries have contributed. Tolstoy and Bulgakov do not care how they are treated in the West. They cannot be belittled or humiliated.

Because immortals don't care about political squabbles. You are not canceling them, you are canceling a part of the great culture in yourself. And Russia will never give up either Shelley or Villon or Salinger. We are not idiots.

(c) Yunna Moritz

Posted by badanov 2022-04-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11141 views ] Top

#1 [ColonelCassad] During the Great Patriotic War, Goethe was not withdrawn from any Soviet library. No orchestra has excluded Wagner from the repertoire.

He's obviously talking about Russian orchestras. Israel is totally irrelevant.

His point is that the West has hysterically applied its stupid "cancel culture" to Russia's extraordinary collection of brilliant classical musicians, singers and conductors, while Russia continues to place culture above politics. This belies shallow and embarrassing claims about Western "superiority"; it is in fact the Russians who have the high ground and can claim to be more civilized.

Heather Mac Donald agrees:
Classical Music Cancels Russians: Denounce Putin, or Be Blacklisted
The classical music establishment demands that Russian musicians condemn their nation’s invasion of Ukraine in order to retain jobs and engagements in the West.
March 16, 2022

Posted by Nero Gonque5986 2022-04-10 01:41|| 2022-04-10 01:41|| Front Page Top

#2 He's obviously talking about Russian orchestras.

Ah. I missed that point, having assumed he was talking worldwide, where the only orchestra I was aware of ever having refused to perform a composer was Israel’s.

And yes, Cancel Culture is nekulturny.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-04-10 02:14|| 2022-04-10 02:14|| Front Page Top

#3 The classical music establishment demands that Russian musicians condemn their nation’s invasion of Ukraine

And we demand it begin in 'e' flat minor and conclude with a tremolo. Accompaniment of a flute at the end would further convince this community of artists that the apology for being Russian is sincere.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-04-10 02:38|| 2022-04-10 02:38|| Front Page Top

#4 In solidarity with Pushkin statues everywhere, and great Russian gopnikal muzhik tradition...

Superfluous are men -- a bother! --
Unless perchance they're brown or black
Like, say, our subject's swarthy father
Who had of offspring no sad lack,

For poor Ms. Siöberg bore so many
They wouldn't sell at ten a penny!
Beware amours, you bright young men...
Where was I? Oh yeah... [licks his pen]

Among the sons one Aleksandr
Was irreplaceable! Growled he,
"Uniquely talented I be
To curse in verse, and weakly maunder."

The rest you know, so here I'll quit.
Read Pushkin, bro. His shit is lit!

Posted by Glusoth Glereling8225 2022-04-10 04:16|| 2022-04-10 04:16|| Front Page Top

#5 "Licks his pen"??

Posted by Herb Bucket3634 2022-04-10 06:22|| 2022-04-10 06:22|| Front Page Top

#6 Poetic license applied for, "pencil" not being a rhyme? And please read "worthy" for "swarthy." Sincere apologies to swarthy Burgers.

Posted by Glusoth Glereling8225 2022-04-10 07:25|| 2022-04-10 07:25|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ This was fun to read this morning.
Literary whit,
I will have some of it.

Posted by Dale 2022-04-10 08:23|| 2022-04-10 08:23|| Front Page Top

#8 What the hell you going to cancel if you don’t have nothing to cancel about. In the west (England in particular), you have nothing, British will be very lucky if going to have food in the the nexts 6/8 months. You wish the opponent disappear? This is faggotry homosexual talk, British homosexuals ‘’invented’’ cancel culture. and the idiot in America embrace this homosexual tradition. There is nothing to discuss.
Instead to discuss this garbage you should piss on their faces. Insult them spit on them. When you discuss them you are accepting their British cultural trash. instead rantburg faithful discuss this trash…. Cancel culture, woke wokism liberalism…bs

Posted by SeecretAgent. 2022-04-10 09:00|| 2022-04-10 09:00|| Front Page Top

#9 Interesting that the cancellation of Russian musicians and composers is the logical consequence of the Black Lives Matter cancellation of the "whiteness" of great composers such as Beethoven.

"Compelled speech is becoming routine in academia. On campuses, faculty candidates for hiring and tenure increasingly must attest to their dedication to diversity to be considered for a job or a promotion.

Now the classical music establishment is adopting that same norm. Russian musicians are being asked to condemn President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine to retain jobs and performing engagements in the West. Staying above the fray is not an option, and denouncing the war will not ward off cancellation. Russian musicians must criticize Putin by name or be blacklisted.

Classical music’s recent self-abasement for its “whiteness” laid the groundwork for this presumptive group guilt. Since the George Floyd race riots in May and June 2020, directors of orchestras, opera companies, and conservatories have lambasted their own field for its historical demographics, said to be inextricably linked to racism. Music critics have sneered at Beethoven and other composers for having allegedly leveraged their whiteness to achieve undeserved acclaim.

Mea culpas and promises of fealty to Black Lives Matter have become de rigueur in mission statements and fundraising pitches. Now these coerced confessions are demanded of a subset of musicians whose Russianness makes them as suspect as whiteness does the entire Caucasian population. Even Russian music itself faces a political litmus test.

Posted by Heriberto Huputh4289 2022-04-10 09:02|| 2022-04-10 09:02|| Front Page Top

#10 ~~British homosexuals~~ American Black racists ‘’invented’’ cancel culture. and the idiots in America embrace this ~~homosexual~~ Black racist tradition.

Posted by Heriberto Huputh4289 2022-04-10 09:04|| 2022-04-10 09:04|| Front Page Top

#11 A year ago all the orchestras large and small were falling all over themselves to insert marginal junk by black composers into their repertoires and programs.

Now they're signaling they "Support The Current Thing" by playing the Ukrainian National Anthem, which sucks and is painful to listen to. Swapping out Beethoven, swapping in George Floyd's brethren, now Ukrainian propaganda. You just can't make this stuff up.

Posted by Heriberto Huputh4289 2022-04-10 09:12|| 2022-04-10 09:12|| Front Page Top

#12 Allen West slams 'woke mob' for swarming his speech: 'These kids wanna be victims'

Posted by Skidmark 2022-04-10 09:14|| 2022-04-10 09:14|| Front Page Top

#13 [clap clap clap, bow, skip and heel click] for #4

Posted by Dron66046 2022-04-10 09:18|| 2022-04-10 09:18|| Front Page Top

#14 Music critics have sneered at Beethoven and other composers for having allegedly leveraged their whiteness to achieve undeserved acclaim.

What the...??? So Beethoven "leveraged his whiteness" for "undeserved acclaim"? These people are insane. The BLM cancel culture madness is out of control

Posted by Lionel Omereth5412 2022-04-10 09:21|| 2022-04-10 09:21|| Front Page Top

#15 Obviously those people have never listened to a high quality recording of Rimsy-Korsimov’s Shaherazade or Shastikovich’s Second Waltz
Anyone that tries to marginalize Beethoven or Bach or Compton is really an I’ll-educated social gadfly with no real joy intellectual basis
I think I’ll go crank up my stereo and drive around the Third Ward here in Houston and play the 9th good and loud

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2022-04-10 10:34|| 2022-04-10 10:34|| Front Page Top

#16
Aah've come to just hate
all music of late.
It's all white noise
without P Diddy an' da boys.
Johnny Cash don' scat,
and Bach don't groooove...
Brünnhilde never twerks,
that ass won't move!

Beet-fuckin'-hoven?!
A white name, you aks me.
Likely had feet cloven.
Not like... Padmalaxmi.
Okay! I'll settle for moolah,
and won't break your face.
It's called repaira-rations
for bein' the better race!

Posted by Dron66046 2022-04-10 10:57|| 2022-04-10 10:57|| Front Page Top

#17
Rubbish. Shite.
Maybe I need a booster shot.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-04-10 12:10|| 2022-04-10 12:10|| Front Page Top

#18 Khatchurian wrote the Gayane ballet, which has lots of good tunes besides Sabre Dance.

Everybody knows Sabre Dance.

But he was born in Georgia and seems to be closely tied to Armenia....

Posted by Bobby 2022-04-10 16:07|| 2022-04-10 16:07|| Front Page Top

#19 Sabre Dance by the Berliner Philharmoniker so you can watch the whole orchestra perform. Incredible.

Posted by Bobby 2022-04-10 16:24|| 2022-04-10 16:24|| Front Page Top

#20 Anna Netrebko and Dmitri Khvorostovsky singing "Moscow Nights" at this outdoor summer evening concert in Red Square is magical. They were the best. The chemistry between them is obvious. I love this video, wish I could have been there... but Khvorostovsky passed away a few years ago and they're trying to cancel Netrebko and Gergiev as well. Too bad. Our loss.

Anna Netrebko, Dmitri Hvorostovsky - Moscow Nights (Подмосковные вечера) (2013)

Posted by Phailet Shumble6692 2022-04-10 16:51|| 2022-04-10 16:51|| Front Page Top

#21 Khvorostovsky sang lovely duets with all the hot looking opera singers. This one with Aida Garifullina is brilliant

Aida Garifullina & Dmitri Hvorostovsky - Deja Vu (Igor Krutoy)

Posted by Phailet Shumble6692 2022-04-10 16:58|| 2022-04-10 16:58|| Front Page Top

#22 This is a better version of the Dima K and Anna Netrebko live outdoor concert singing Podmoskovskiye Vechera. They had a lot of fun with it. Yes the chemistry was great

"Подмосковные вечера" - А. Нетребко - Д. Хворостовский. Красная Площадь.

Posted by Squinty Glolump5141 2022-04-10 17:44|| 2022-04-10 17:44|| Front Page Top

#23 ^ Opera at its best. Bravo Rantburgers all. We had class a few years back but can only be found in volumes of recorded performances. I grow nostalgic for the good old days. What they call white privilege these days.

Posted by Dale 2022-04-10 18:06|| 2022-04-10 18:06|| Front Page Top

#24 Podmoskovniye Vechera
Don't blame me, I'm Polish! 😊

Posted by Squinty Glolump5141 2022-04-10 18:14|| 2022-04-10 18:14|| Front Page Top

#25 Khvorostovsky singing "The Cranes" in 2003
"Журавли" Дмитрий Хворостовский (4.2003)

Posted by Phailet Shumble6692 2022-04-10 18:27|| 2022-04-10 18:27|| Front Page Top

#26 Opera at its best. Bravo Rantburgers all. We had class a few years back but can only be found in volumes of recorded performances. I grow nostalgic for the good old days. What they call white privilege these days.

Why I prefer this music to jungle music.

Posted by badanov 2022-04-10 18:30|| 2022-04-10 18:30|| Front Page Top

#27 I grow nostalgic for the good old days. What they call white privilege these days.

We used to call that Western Civilization. It was something! No idea what they will call it post-collapse.

Posted by SteveS 2022-04-10 18:35|| 2022-04-10 18:35|| Front Page Top

#28 This is the extraordinary fifteen year-old Russian pianist that the weasels are cancelling now, Alexander Malofeev, playing Rach 2
Alexander Malofeev -- S.Rachmaninoff. Piano Concerto No.2

Posted by Phailet Shumble6692 2022-04-10 18:46|| 2022-04-10 18:46|| Front Page Top

#29 No idea what they will call it post-collapse.

What Heinlein said. It will be called "bad luck."

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-10 18:47|| 2022-04-10 18:47|| Front Page Top

#30 The Annapolis Symphony in Maryland also purported to be acting out of altruism in cancelling violinist Vadim Repin “We don’t want to put [Repin] in an uncomfortable, even impossible position,” the press release explained. So “out of respect to Repin’s apolitical stance and concerns for the safety of himself and his family,” he would not be allowed to play the Shostakovich concerto with the orchestra..

Vadim Repin's performance of the haunting, elegiac Shostakovich concerto in A minor:
Vadim Repin - Shostakovich - Violin Concerto No 1 in A minor, Op 77

Posted by Phailet Shumble6692 2022-04-10 18:54|| 2022-04-10 18:54|| Front Page Top

#31 More Shostakovich - a montage of movie scenes set to his gorgeous Second Waltz (movies are "The Leopard," w Burt Lancaster and various versions of "Anna Karenina" with Sophie Marceau and Sean Bean and many others)

Dmitri Shostakovich - The Second Waltz

Posted by Phailet Shumble6692 2022-04-10 19:00|| 2022-04-10 19:00|| Front Page Top

#32 The greatest victim of this canceling frenzy is the greatest conductor of our era, Valery Gergiev. Heather Mac Donald writes:

"Putin’s stance on LGBTQ education has particularly exercised music journalists and gay advocates. Queer Nation disrupted a concert Gergiev was conducting in Carnegie Hall in 2013 because Putin had signed a law that banned schools from distributing to minors “propaganda on nontraditional sexual relationships” (not so different from grassroots efforts in the U.S. to preserve a zone of childhood innocence regarding sexuality). “Gergiev, your silence is killing Russian gays!” protesters shouted. In response, Gergiev has insisted that he has never discriminated against anyone; no one has disputed that claim.

In 2016, Gergiev conducted the Mariinsky Orchestra from a Roman theater in Palmyra, Syria. Syrian forces, with Russian air support, had retaken the historic site, which ISIS had used to execute prisoners. Gergiev characterized the concert, featuring the music of Bach, Prokofiev, and the twentieth-century Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin, as a protest against barbarism

Brief excerpt: Russian orchestra performs concert at Palmyra in Syria

Full concert: Russian Mariinsky Theatre Symphonic Orchestra Concert in Palmyra

Posted by Phailet Shumble6692 2022-04-10 19:13|| 2022-04-10 19:13|| Front Page Top

#33 ^ yeah, so what? We have Queer Mickey Mouse on the small screen

Posted by Knuckles Dark Lord of the Texans1441 2022-04-10 19:17|| 2022-04-10 19:17|| Front Page Top

#34 ^ Snark of the day -- Anonymous Division

Posted by badanov 2022-04-10 19:20|| 2022-04-10 19:20|| Front Page Top

#35 We have Queer Mickey Mouse on the small screen

plus Transgendered Elsa

Posted by Marilyn Brown5902 2022-04-10 22:15|| 2022-04-10 22:15|| Front Page Top

#36 We have Queer Mickey Mouse on the small screen

😂

Posted by Phailet Shumble6692 2022-04-10 23:36|| 2022-04-10 23:36|| Front Page Top

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