Gstaad
This is the best news since the Bush-Blair duo saved us from the nuclear holocaust Saddam was about to unleash upon us. Half a
Unwanted electric cars pile up everywhere but the government has gone as deaf as Beethoven
million, perhaps even one million dead Iraqis later, we were nevertheless saved with minutes to spare, so we should always believe official sources. Especially when Uncle Sam is involved.
This time the good news is not nuclear but musical. The Mostly Mozart Festival has been cancelled by New York’s Lincoln Center after 60-odd years because of rising disdain for ‘elitism and exclusivity’. Instead we have the Criminal Queerness Festival, a ‘celebration of 50 years of hip hop’, a day geared toward ‘neurodiverse audiences’, and ‘the world’s first LGBTQIA+ mariachi group’. So long and goodbye, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
I read that the final two Mostly Mozart concerts were packed, but in today’s low-life, celebrity-driven woke culture disdain for great music and the miracle that is Mozart needs no excuses. Lincoln Center will probably soon be renamed George Floyd Memorial or, better yet, Black Lives Matter Hall. Once upon a time art had a responsibility to make the planet more beautiful. Mozart and thousands of others did just that. Now Damien Hirst and fellow ‘artists’ such as Snoop Dogg make the planet as ugly as those who own their art or listen to their rap music.
Wolfie, as I like to call the greatest of musical miracles, wrote six immortal operas including the Requiem, 41 symphonies, almost 50 concertos, 24 chamber works and 18 miscellaneous pieces, but is now replaced by ‘artists’ who include the F-word, the N-word and the S-word in every single women-hating, violence-praising sentence of their singularly untalented noise. Bravo, and long live the decision-makers at the Lincoln Center.
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