Posted on 02/08/2008 2:12:19 PM PST by MaestroLC
On the eve of the New York Philharmonic's departure on an Asian tour that will include a visit to Pyongyang, its music director, Lorin Maazel, suggested that Americans are not in a position to criticize the North Korean regime, because America's own record on human rights is flawed.
"People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw bricks, should they?" Mr. Maazel told the Associated Press. "Is our standing as a country the United States is our reputation all that clean when it comes to prisoners and the way they are treated? Have we set an example that should be emulated all over the world? If we can answer that question honestly, I think we can then stop being judgmental about the errors made by others."
Experts on North Korea responded to Mr. Maazel's comment with shock and dismay.
A senior fellow at the Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics and the author of "Korea after Kim Jong-il," Marcus Noland, called Mr. Maazel's statement "outrageous."
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The orchestra is leaving today for a three-week Asian tour, which will include a concert in Pyongyang on February 26. A spokesman for the State Department, which encouraged the Philharmonic to make the visit, declined to respond to Mr. Maazel's comment, noting that he is a private citizen and not a government employee. The spokesman for the Philharmonic, Eric Latzky, did not return a phone call.
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“One of my favorite stations (not an NPR or commercial free) is WCLV in Cleveland.”
Ah! I listened to WCLV while I was growing up! Is Carl Haas still doing Adventures in Good Listening? Do they still have WCLV Saterday Night?
“Everybody loves Saturday night!
“Everybody loves Saturday night!
“Everybody, everybody,Everybody loves Saturday night!”
And then it goes into other languages.
One more liberal Jew.
Probably hates Israel too.
Idiot. Unable to distinguish a freckle from malignant skin cancer.
Two million have starved to death unnecessarily in NK,
and the place is a hive of labor camps in which hundreds of thousands barely survive, and he has no words for that,
but only to criticize Guantanamo?
For lefties, this kind of cheap slander against the United States is like cocaine. They simply can’t resist it. It lights up their pleasure centers like a roman candle.
Why are most entertainers idiots?
“Is Carl Haas still doing Adventures in Good Listening?”
Actually, it’s no more :>( Stopped just recently. Had something to do with a request/negotiations with the Haas estate.
Learned TONS from Hass.
Hey,
We here in St. Louis can’t have Chicago claiming the best
in anything without responding...KFUO is outstanding.
Perhaps Maazel will become a citizen of North Korea, like Daniel Barenboim recently accepted Palestinian citizenship.
Maazel wanted Barenboim to succeed him at the NY Phil.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/944235.html
> Actually, its no more :>( Stopped just recently. Had something to do with a request/negotiations with the Haas estate.
See here... http://www.wclv.com/page.php?pageID=174
Don’t forget, you can to listen to WCLV live here...
http://www.wclv.com/page.php?pageID=64
Home of the best band in the land, The Cleveland Orchestra.
The best band in Cleveland anyway. The Chicago Symphony is the best in the world. :-) Seriously though it’s those two that are as good as any in the world.
Some classical critic who travels a lot and listens to those stations all around said that WFMT was a 10 and the next best classical station is a 6 or so. Even in NYC they only do it part time and play excerpts as opposed entire works. It’s great to hear there’s a good one in St Louis. Are they full time classical?
“Is Carl Haas still doing Adventures in Good Listening?”
No,..No he’s not. At the moment, he’s kind of dead.
Yessir. It’s actually a full-time commercial station sponsored by the Missouri Lutheran Synod. They’re currently celebrating their 60th anniversary.
Is Carl Haas still doing Adventures in Good Listening?
“No,..No hes not. At the moment, hes kind of dead.”
There’s a lot of that going around! ;)
I kind of thought he was . . . I just wasn’t sure. And the program can continue without him.
I guess right now I must say this,
ARE YOU WATCHING THIS, MR. BUSH?
Oh yes, now you reminds me. Their Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture is brilliant.
Last time I checked, we hadn’t starved a million or more Americans, just to keep control of the rest.
I’d love to see this @$$hat’s passport revoked and him declared “persona non grata” so that he couldn’t come home. If he likes the Norks so much, let him stay there and do concerts for the Kims...
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