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Florence Price seems to be the new "thing" à la mode. We had her "concert overture #2", a few days ago in concert in Rouen... I was not impressed...
Quote from: Ebubu on Friday 14 October 2022, 23:10Florence Price seems to be the new "thing" à la mode. We had her "concert overture #2", a few days ago in concert in Rouen... I was not impressed...
Yes, a while ago there was a lively discussion on the board about this. It got to be a sort of red cape issue ("Niagara Falls! Slowly I turned, step by step...") until we all agreed to just let it rest.
Good idea, John. We've done this to death.
Oh so sorry I missed that. Didn't mean to wave the red cape ! ;)
No problem. A search will reveal the gory details...
Good. I did a search, and it was worthwhile. I agree on pretty much all points of the discussion, and there were valuable comments on the "politicisation of the arts" (and music particularly). One further example of this is how we have recently seen blossoming a dig for "ukrainian composers" (Silvestrov ?), or on some YT videos the mention that such and such composer previously known as a "russian composer" suddenly needed an extra comment on "born in Ukraine"...
Anyway... (sigh ::) ....)