Posted on 08/17/2012 12:55:39 PM PDT by Ron C.
Two high school choruses will reportedly not perform with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra this year because their groups are not racially-diverse enough.
WSBTV.com reports that the Walton and Lassiter High School choruses in Cobb County will not get a chance to perform with Atlanta’s professional this fall as a result of the determination.
"This year, the schools were informed by symphony officials that their choruses are not diverse enough, and that the symphony would be inviting a third, more diverse chorus," Cobb County Schools spokesman Jay Dillon told the website.
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SO TRUE!
Sad to say, this whole 'diversity' thing is racist, so much so that white Americans have become the greater victims of racism.
and the left yet again shows their bigotry and hatred, just right after their shooting, the SPLC , Bidens chain comments, all in a week, WOW.
I think you're very right. Rejection for being too good, too polished - and too professional - is what Hollywood long ago sunk to.
their hypocrisy just keeps on carrying on.
A bunch of elitist white snotty nosed people who shout diversity but work and live in their lily white places.
Diversity for them is getting a mexican on a Friday and Chinese meal on a Saturday.
Diversity for us is get rid of the white people have us live in black areas, send our kids to black failing schools etc.
I hope they get sued just like the SPLC and their hate.
Ugh... This isn’t ‘diversity’ - this is sheer stupidity gone way overboard. I remember a time when talent counted - today that has been tossed out the window, so that we can watch the mundane.
I too grew up listening to R&B, bluegrass, and growing up in TX and NM, a lot of 'western' stuff. But, I was being taught classical music on the piano - and I hated it - ten years of it, and I dropped it forever.
The problem is too few have the bucks to go pay to listen to them - it's tough all the way around. The question is, have they tried dropping the price to listen a bit - or not.
Well.....I have looked at all the names of the posters to this thread.
***NOT even one government school defender has bothered to post! **
I suppose the government school defenders can’t defend the indefensible.
The stupid parents sending the kids into this school will attempt to reform the impossible, and on the first day of this godless and socialist-entitlement school the godless and socialist-entitlement school will be overflowing with kids from conservative and Christian kids.
( Abolish the government owned and run system of godless socialist-entitlement K-12 schooling!!!! Do it NOW!)
There is one word that describes this: **Homeschool**
They were ***homeschooled**.
There is one word that describes this: **Homeschool**
They were ***homeschooled**.
There's a "one hundred year rule" that governs music, just like art and literature. For at least 100 years, sometimes more, you are too immersed in the contemporary culture to get a good handle on what is going to last. Bach was basically a local musician and as a composer not really appreciated until he was "rediscovered" in the early 19th century. Bononcini was considered by many to be greater than his contemporary Handel, but nobody's heard of him today.
Of course, there are standouts that everybody knows are great at the time. Mozart. Josquin. Dufay. Palestrina. Byrd. But we won't know who our 'major' composers are until some time has passed.
Also, you are looking over hundreds and hundreds of years and picking out the greats. From that point of view, everybody from around 1900 forward is "contemporary" with us. So you have Fauré, Duruflé, Elgar, Howells, Britten, and so forth.
The other major difference between then and now is the organized music schools that grabbed the kids early - particularly in England, France and Germany. The Eastern bloc continued to do that, and just about anybody who went through music school in, say, Bulgaria or Czechoslovakia, will be an excellent musician.
And of course, the way that Mozart was brought up would probably be considered child abuse these days.
Actually, no they were not.
There was a "farm system" in most countries in Europe. Boys at the tender age of 7 or 8 were sent to 'choir schools' to study music exclusively (with a few other basic courses on the side). There was a choir school attached to just about every cathedral of any prominence in Europe. The Chapel Royal in Whitehall, with Byrd and Tallis in charge, travelled most of England looking for promising boy singers.
About the only exceptions were families with many noted musicians -- e.g. the Bach and Mozart families, who gave the children their early instruction. But even J.S. Bach went away to study at St. Michael's choir school at age 14. Mozart was pretty much exploited by his father, but his genius rose above that.
Very interesting about the choir schools.
It wasn’t unusual for young teens of wealthier families to go off to school as young teens. At one time it was common to go to college at that age.
The 40 year war against White males has been won...they're coming after the rest of you now.
What? Black people don’t want to work hard and join a chorus?
Yeah, yeah, that’s not racist at all.
Diversity is not about about right or wrong, or even fairness.
It's what ever it needs to be to justify the Lefts agenda of hatred and bigotry against those people who have an ideological disagreement with them and to provide a justification for the Left to persecute those who have a different ideological world view.
At it's heart, Diversity is bigotry and collective hatred of a class or group of people based not on the different color of their skin but of the differing ( but not bad, wrong or unfair or malevolent ) content of their character and their traditional or religious centered values
Diversity is fundamentally un American and antithetical to our culture as a melting pot of people bound together by a shared vision of equality of opportunity, of freedom, of liberty and of justice for all. of
I noticed that at their airport earlier this year. It reminded me of a scene in Gone With the Wind when the carpetbaggers moved in and Reconstruction ensued.
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