Israeli makes La Maestra final
NewsThe last three in the La Maestra women-only conducting competition are:
Liubov Nosova – Russia
Katharina Morin – Germany
Bar Avni – Israel
Final Concert tonight at 7pm at the Philharmonie de Paris.
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Russia, Germany, and Israel. Three countries with spotless historical records
And your point is?
So why isn’t the headline “German, Russian and Israeli make La Maestra Final”? (Or choose your order.) Clearly there’s some point being made in calling out the one finalist’s nationality.
The same point you’ve been making about Russia for two years. Self defence is one thing. Wholesale slaughter something else entirely.
Time to start banning Israeli artists like Russian ones if they don’t call out their murderous regime.
Name three countries with spotless historical records!
Perhaps San Marino, Liechtenstein, Andorra?
Actually Liechtenstein and San Marino have been money laundry heavens also for global blood money in the past. So maybe Andorra. 🙂
Historical ?
Surely inspite of,NOT because of…as pointedly alluded to by the Nash,surely ?
You’re actually comparing Israel to Russia and Germany? Jews were persecuted in both of those countries.
Bar Avni is a fabulous conductor . Her Britten at the semi finals was outstanding and displayed drama supported by marvelous rhythmic sense
A disastrous signal. Are women really such weak conductors that they compete in a separate competition in which men are not allowed because a man could be better than them and take one of the top places away from them? Or even worse: Just because there are more men than women conductors in the world? Apart from the fact that this whole event violates the European Union’s Equality Act, exactly this kind of “positive discrimination” is a complete step backwards in terms of gender equality. By the way, when is the next competition for black people coming? Or transsexuals? Or queer people? Why then don’t make a separate competition for every gender?
As a matter of a fact you are almost right! Just a slight correction – it’s men who are so weak that they needed to discourage / block / disturb / discriminate women from the orchestral conducting profession throughout the conducting history, so they can feel free to be mediocre, and still get the job.
Evidently wrong. You need to talk to women musicians in orchestras more…
Well actually there are (were) few job positions (conductor’s) for ONLY women and even non-gender people. So it’s pretty much the moment of time when the lucky ticket for “white-man-conductor” was already taken (KM) and for the next opened slot we have to wait another decade or two. I can say it few more times: don’t do conducting, it’s very easy, doesn’t demand any musical training (your PR and agency can cover it) etc. those who want to be a conductor are just selfish people. They want to be famous, to make money and pretend to be a very valuable person in the (music) world. Actually there is nothing wrong with it, but their footprint in history is pretty miserable.
The point of the headline may be: a person from a small country against two from large ones, or – a person from a country that is faced with existential threats against two from countries that are threatened by no one, or – a person form a young country against two from much older ones, or – a person from Middle East (Asia) against two from Europe (or at least partly in Europe).
And now you can say that she won! Many congratulations to Bar Avni for an outstanding performance.
Regardless of political affiliation, I think we can all agree: weird headline.