By: Beth Denisch
Thank you Frank, excellent! Music is a cultural statement, whether it claims to be absolute or programme. Music brings us together and incites riots. However, it was interesting that while the...
View ArticleBy: Alvaro Gallegos
Great Article, Frank! It immediately reminded me of a particular piece: Frank Zappa’s opera “Joe’s Garage”, which depicts a totalitarian dystopic society where music becomes illegal. In the libretto...
View ArticleBy: Frank J. Oteri
In reply to Beth Denisch. Thank you, Beth, for the extremely astute observation regarding women composers herein. As far as I am aware, historically no women were excoriated for their music by a...
View ArticleBy: Phil Fried
But I’m racking my brain to think of others women composers in our time who have actually been arrested or jailed as a result of the music they have created and performed Charlotte Moorman comes to...
View ArticleBy: Harold Gotthelf
I believe that what Lorenzo says in Act V of “The Merchant of Venice” holds for states and political movements as well: “The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet...
View ArticleBy: Sabrina
Do you know what I am sick of? How people are making this into a freedom of speech issue, when it is not! The reason they were convicted was because they entered a church in order to blaspheme and...
View ArticleBy: A. Sonaslon
I could not agree with you more! What would beatle paul do if i hijacked his performance with my own , which i belive to be more relevant, albeit just to me? Who would come to my defense for jumping on...
View ArticleBy: Hoseph Holbrooke
In reply to A. Sonaslon. “What would beatle paul do if i hijacked his performance with my own?” You might want to answer your own question and then compare it to what has happened to these young women....
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