Thinking about how French liberals (if you will) like Voltaire idealized England, like more recently China (and of course the Soviet Union but that doesn't matter because they lost), and how that went on at least through World War I (Clemenceau)
It's funny (not funny) how Democratic leadership have put on successive flashy corny shows about defunding police for black people and ethnically cleansing Palestine for Jews and neither black people nor Jews asked for or want it
It might not make Arnold happy, but Edgar might be the most important example of his work immediately affecting the next generation - Amériques, Octandre plagiarize Peripitae, Vorgefühle - as opposed to the '50s kids' maybe comparatively fleeting interest in him (or "Webern")
He's a vampire (blood drinker), red headed, brown eyes, Italian, an idealist, a dreamer - total sociopath - neurotic mess - I didn't say who but a name popped into your head didn't it
Bonus points if they emphasize Così, both because of the Salieri relationship drama angle, and because that's where Lorenzo proved he could write a good play for Wolfgang after adapting a great one in Figaro and writing a frankly shaky one in Don Giovanni
The genius of Ezra Klein and Abundance - speaking of gimmicks - was to state the obvious truth that we need more authority, even though they want less - very Trump, come to think of it
Nice of David Brooks to exemplify how to be worthless, when the problem is Trump is even less authoritarian than Biden, when America already can't do anything except financial gimmicks and we need Biden's industrial policy and regulation but more - More King, if you will
So, David Brooks keeps saying this again and again and again, and he’s right, right, right, right, RIGHT!!!! America Needs a Mass Movement—Now For @TheAtlantic www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
They're still running America into the ground of course, but it does feel sort of good watching neoconservatives go emo like Great Society liberals in the Carter-Reagan era
Regarding the Joshua Barone New York Times clickbait, has the word about Messiaen being the Central Figure of serialism, if you will, been slow to get around (apparently still not done!) because the conservatives know if that's so then they have no excuse for being out of touch?
Baby boomers, well known for smacking their kids (ever notice how shortening it to Boomers lets you pretend it's generic old people, like old people when you were a kid - YOU'RE not old! - like Dick Cheney)
I suppose it's a sign that Millennials are already turning into Boomers because the other undercurrent in the thread is full of people going on about "maybe we should smack kids more often given how poorly behaved they are these days" which is emphatically not true.
Unfortunately this tweet is an example of why the Democrats will also keep all the cuts to government programs, because even the dissident leftists/progressives/whatever don't think that's the priority
I have much to say about @lastweektonight.com lumping us in with National Review & The Federalist & Pod Save & Jacobin as an "opinion-heavy outlet." We are a news outlet that (regardless of our perspective) provides fact-based reporting. Putting us on this list is, well, factually inaccurate.
I can't tell if your previous replies are intentionally or unintentionally stupid, the point is even if for the sake of argument we disregard Schoenberg and Stockhausen, the rest of the 20th century classical canon still makes your claim nonsense
That doesn't matter, because pure atonal music represented only a minority of the classical avant garde except maybe in the '50s and '60s, if then, and even then it certainly didn't have a monopoly (Messiaen, Ustvolskaya, Ligeti, Berio, Takemitsu, the whole "downtown" American scene, etc.)
Also notice your choice of conveniently punchable Germanophones, because you know if you said nobody likes Stravinsky and Messiaen that wouldn't look as good - though even Stockhausen has a certain following among fans of popular electronic music
Be funny if Nigeria or Congo or whoever rules the world one day and smart people say "Well of course their great destiny was obvious after they invented something as unprecedented as African music" like they used to about the cathedrals
