Spoleto’s new boss: Let’s decolonise classical music

Spoleto’s new boss: Let’s decolonise classical music

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norman lebrecht

July 13, 2021

Mena Mark Harris, the new chief of SpoletoUSA, has some wonderfully fashionable guilt about how classical music treats the orient

He calls the lecture ‘A Horribly Discordant Noise: The Problem of Colonization in Classical Music’, which defines a problem of his own making. He goes on to pander to every curent wokeism. His guru is Edward Said and his thesis unoriginal.

Watch and wonder.

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