This concert is such a drag
OrchestrasFrom the Toronto Symphony Orchestra:
This June, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) proudly teams up with Pride Toronto to celebrate and embrace the vibrant, diverse, and audacious spirit of our city’s 2SLGBTQ+ community. The TSO’s first-ever drag headliner, and “Queen of Classical Music”, Thorgy Thor, will perform live with the Orchestra at Roy Thomson Hall for a one-night-only, trailblazing concert.
Queen of classical music? Ridiculous. Florence Foster Jenkins still rules.
The idea is to have fun.
It’s about time. Drag should play an important role in classical music going forward. For all the bigots who will complain: be better.
100% for giving LGBTQ more visibility.
Let’s not kid ourselves though, its 0.000001% actual social justice, and 99.999999% simply jumping at anything that would give them clicks in social media or a handful of more ticket sales.
Classical music literally has no place in modern society, if not they would not be so desperate trying to find one….
You mean in the sense that you have to be dragged, kicking and screaming, towards something more serious!!
Utterly disgraceful to classical music.
Here we have 1. One of the most supremely untalented conductors but who is hired merely because he is black and gay.
2. A drag queen that has had a reputation on other stages for making pro pedophilic statements constant use of the f-word and otherwise actually a pretty boring act. Look up their track record.
Drag is a repulsive corrupting sickness disguised as “art”
Our world is truly messed up. When will this madness end.
Lets just remind the audience that the comment above not only was not censored, it was clearly upvoted.
Beethoven and Mozart really make you a better person…it seems.
A certain Adolf loved those composers….seems the trend continues.
This comment is unforgivable. Your kind is a festering putrid cancer on the classical music scene. How dare you use your time here on this planet to spread such negative sputum. SHAME ON YOU.
Don’t like drag? You seem very familiar with the performer in question’s act……
You don’t need a Mahlerian conductor to conduct pops shows. The requirements are different. Daniel brings great energy and fun to the shows he conducts and is very valuable to many orchestras.
“2SLGBTQ+”? I guess the IAs aren’t welcome.
Oh, please, bring back the Enigma Coding machine!!
If a singer performed in black face or yellow face, there would be an uproar. Woman face is ok, though.
Correct. Women don’t mind. It’s the men who seem to. If only men looked out for women just as much, when women are denigrated in other arenas.
Women DO mind, but nobody cares. Drag is rooted in misogyny.
Yes, the perfect schtick for misogynists.
You couldn’t be missing the point more, could you?
Love this!!!
Classical music is never fun or funny, no matter what you do with it….loud trumps from the tuba, buffoonery on bassoons…..no still not funny. Actually I make an exception for a well executed equine mating call on trombone….c’est drôle ça
Apparently you have never heard of PDQ Bach. Or Victor Borge. Or any number of Haydn pieces. Or a Rossini opera… The list goes on. I don’t know what this concert will be like, but it just might be a lot of fun!
I’m really not sure how much more I can take. I’m not being facetious, glib, or hyperbolic. The state of the world is getting to be more than I can bear, and I’m not entirely sure what to do or say anymore, or where to turn.
Go for a walk, if possible, and leave your phone at home.
Well good thing you weren’t born in a time and place that had *actual* troubles or you wouldn’t be able to cope at all.
I wouldn’t blink twice if this post were about Russia’s invasion, but *this* is what sets you off? Perspective. Get some.
Welcome to Gomorrah…slouching to a concert hall, kids TV show, and library near you.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Good lord, these purists have their heads deep in the sand. Hundreds of thousands of people come to Pride in Toronto every summer. In an age where the dying dinosaur orchestras of the world are shutting down right and left don’t you think it would be WISE to cater to enthusiastic niche communities? Or do you think your light classics subscriptions are going to be enough to pay the musicians and staff a decent wage. Climb back into your ditches and shut the hell up. Sheesh.
I’d advise you to follow your own advice.
Lol! Nope, pretty sure that comment was meant for the likes of Fonzie. Bahaha!
Pride is centered around men. That’s why I don’t go to Pride events anymore.
No surprise in Toronto: the wokest city on the planet.
Good for TSO and Toronto! This show was done with Symphony Nova Scotia and was great!
The pearls are being clutched so tight that it’s cut off the blood to some brains.
If you need any further proof that the West is in decline this is it. This is their idea of culture.
No wonder the future of Western classical music now lies in the East!
The decline of the West, I remember when that was hip in the 1940s
Personally, I’m of two minds about this: 1.) Big yawn. There’s not much to see here, so please move along. 2.) So this is what the Toronto Symphony has come to? Yikes! (I’m not a Torontonian, so take my comment as you will.)
Somehow I’m not overly alarmed nor enthusiastic about this because it does seem to me that there are larger and more numerous issues in classical music right now than the appearance of drag performers on stage with a city’s premiere symphony orchestra. Maybe we should focus on those instead?
I for one could use a season without a god awful mailed-in performance of Beethoven’s 5th