What the Vienna Philharmonic covers up on New Years Day
mainI have published a piece in the Spectator on the many things the Vienna Philharmonic tries to cover up at its New Year’s Day concert – racism, sexism, elitism and plain old Viennese meanness and nastyism.
The annual Strauss concert is one of the last water-cooler moments on world television, but:
So long as appearance defeats substance — so long as the world oohs and ahhs at the musical sweetmeats and ignores the dirt in the kitchen, New Year’s Day from Vienna will remain a family favourite, a testament to our human ability to look the other way.
Read the full article here.
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