{"id":69930,"date":"2020-09-18T03:11:45","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T00:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/canceling-beethoven-is-the-latest-woke-madness-for-the-classical-music-world\/"},"modified":"2020-09-18T03:11:45","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T00:11:45","slug":"canceling-beethoven-is-the-latest-woke-madness-for-the-classical-music-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/canceling-beethoven-is-the-latest-woke-madness-for-the-classical-music-world\/","title":{"rendered":"#Canceling Beethoven is the latest woke madness for the classical-music world"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Canceling Beethoven is the latest woke madness for the classical-music world<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\n Think some things are so beloved and essential to Western civilization they can\u2019t be canceled? Think again.<\/p>\n

If there\u2019s anything we should have learned from months of \u201cmostly peaceful\u201d Black Lives Matter street protests, statue toppling and online mobs seeking to silence anyone who dissents against leftist narratives about \u201cracism,\u201d it\u2019s that no one, living or dead, is safe from the attentions of woke fascists. Even Ludwig van Beethoven.<\/p>\n

Beethoven\u2019s work is not only at the core of the standard repertory of classical music; some of his most popular works have also become part of popular culture, their melodies recognizable even to those who\u2019ve never heard an orchestral concert.<\/p>\n

For the last 200 years, Beethoven\u2019s compositions have also been symbols of the struggle for freedom against tyranny. The \u201cOde to Joy\u201d from the conclusion to his Ninth Symphony remains the definitive anthem of universal brotherhood. It is no coincidence that the opening notes of his Fifth Symphony \u2014 whose rhythmic pattern duplicates the Morse Code notation for the letter \u201cV\u201d as in \u201cV for Victory\u201d \u2014 were used by the BBC for broadcasts to occupied Europe during the Second World War.<\/p>\n

But to woke critics, Beethoven\u2019s music has taken on a new, darker meaning. To musicologist Nate Sloan and songwriter Charlie Harding, stars of the \u201cSwitched on Pop\u201d podcast produced in association with the New York Philharmonic, the Fifth Symphony is a stand-in for everything they don\u2019t like about classical music and Western culture. As far as they\u2019re concerned, it\u2019s time to cancel Ludwig.<\/p>\n

On Vox.com<\/a>, the pair blame Beethoven\u2019s music for what they consider to be a stuffy elitist classical culture that bolsters the rule of white males and suppresses the voices of women, blacks and the LGBTQ community.<\/p>\n

Beethoven\u2019s music was so profound and different that it did begin the trend of adopting rules of behavior at concerts, like being quiet during performances and holding app<\/a>lause until the conclusion. But the idea that such music is the \u201csoundtrack\u201d for \u201cwhite privilege\u201d and oppression is imposing a contemporary woke narrative on Beethoven that has nothing to do with his music or the way it\u2019s performed.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first such attack on Beethoven. In the 1980s, a musicologist named Susan McClary caused a stir with a bizarre claim that analogized the Ninth Symphony to the \u201crage\u201d of an impotent rapist. But while serious thinkers dismissed McClary, that kind of delusional leftist thinking has gone mainstream in 2020.<\/p>\n

The BLM protests have inspired other assaults on the music world, such as New York Times music critic Anthony Tommasini\u2019s demand for racial quotas in orchestral hiring that would increase the number of black performers but also limit opportunities for Asians, who are disproportionately overrepresented among modern musicians. Elsewhere, the late opera star Richard Tucker\u2019s son David was pushed out of a family foundation that aided young singers, simply because he criticized BLM rioters and praised President Trump.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s something to be said for loosening up some of the informal rules of attending a classical concert. But Sloan and Harding write as if they haven\u2019t been to a concert in 40 years: Modern concertgoers come in all sorts of attire and, if anything, many need to be instructed to turn off their phones and show more respect for fellow audience members and performers alike by shutting up.<\/p>\n

They also haven\u2019t noticed that orch\u00adestras and opera companies have spent the last generation falling over themselves trying to promote music written by black, Hispanic and female composers.<\/p>\n

Some of this new music is good; a lot isn\u2019t. But if audiences still prefer Beethoven it\u2019s not because they\u2019re embracing a symbol of white supremacy. They want more Beethoven and the other great white European composers, like Brahms and Mahler, who followed in his footsteps because they love it.<\/p>\n

Indeed, without these white male immortals, orchestras like the NY Philharmonic, which were already struggling before the COVID shutdowns, would have even more trouble filling seats.<\/p>\n

The attempt to cancel Beethoven ought to be a wake-up call for the music world and even those who aren\u2019t classical fans: The war on Western civilization will leave nothing sacred untouched. If Beethoven can be canceled, nothing is safe.<\/p>\n

Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS.org. Twitter<\/a>: @jonathans_tobin<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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