The one on the right is Sam Smith ‘the first openly non-binary musician to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and to win a Grammy Award’. Not, by any definition, a classical artist.
The other one is Italian.
Go figure.
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What an utterly childish post. First of all you mention Sam’s non-binary status and then go on to use the wrong pronoun for effect. It’s like GB News making “clumsy errors”.
Actually Sam’s performance was very well reviewed and the Proms has stopped being exclusively about classical music decades ago. The overrated chap on the left is surely less welcome to The Proms than a pop artist of worldwide repute.
An utterly useless critique we don’t need.
“the Proms has stopped being exclusively about classical music decades ago.”
Well that’s OK then. I feel a lot better now.
When will the numerous pop/rock festivals stop being exclusively about pop/rock? The drive for “diversity” only moves in one direction.
Ravi Shankar played at the Woodstock Festival
And yet a current post shows how the recently-deceased Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead funded many classical recordings. Most of the recordings you treasure from the golden age of opera recording were funded by sales of pop and rock records. Pop and rock artists have been using classical musicians for decades, Deep Purple performed a concerto with the RPO and ENO performed at Glastonbury. Helps to know what you’re talking about it this business, you know…
ENO at Glastonbury was years ago. I don’t see a gradual encroachment of classical into pop/rock which, if you’d given it a moment’s thought, is the essential point with regard to the Proms.
I don’t even detect any intelligent inclusion of pop/rock within the Proms, just modish nonsense.
And, believe it or not, I have heard John Lord’s concerto. I’ve also heard Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Oratorio. Never again.
Well said.
Maybe the post was altered before I saw it — I do not see a pronoun in the text.
It’s a bit hard to keep up with Sam Smith, whose Wikipedia entry lists three different “gender” choices, the latest of which appears to be non-binary.
The chosen pronouns for some of these choices make grammar unintelligible. I think some of the + in LGBTQ+ ought to have a rethink about the matter.
Don’t hold your breath…
Especially when the Chinese military comes a-callin’.
Would you mind at least correctly gendering Sam Smith please, that’s really just basic human respect at this point which I think we could all do with.
Well, what is it? Wikipedia says it’s currently non-binary (whatever that actually means).
Some members of some of of the 24 “gender options” proposed by the SNP do not show much “human respect” to basic biology. And they are considerably less than respectful of people who wonder if some members of these option groups are not taking advantage of some hard-won rights that women fought for over the centuries — simultaneously denying women those very rights.
What about non-extra-terrestrial? The rest of the gender pronoun rubbish is essentially non-conformist. A fashion statement for the fashionably challenged.
@Rofrano: Who cares?
What’s gendering? Is it some kind of operation?
Not always, and that’s half the trouble.
It’s actually a gerund and you don’t need surgery for that!! Maybe a lobotomy, but that’s all.
Be careful, Norman, because if you start “go figuring” based on one set of protected characteristics you seem to think are fair game, who knows where it could end?
Where somebody else started it is where it will end.