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.
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