Stockholm soloist performs Brexit encore
mainLast night at the Berwaldhallen with Pekka Kuusisto & Malin Broman: Swedish and Finnish encore on Brexit Day.
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Beautiful. Elegant. Classy.
Do you remember him at the Proms doing similar ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpN2k5zz81o
Elegant! It is much different than Brussels Philharmonic with Deneve that played Beethoven 9th, just during this special friday night with some of the musicians dressing t-shirts with EU flag. Hey Chocolate Folks, it wasn’t a declaration of war or a bad omen. Hold your horses and lets hope everyone will get the best in future. Best wishes for future better decision for Brussels Philharmonic.
Your hubristic comment doesn’t deserve a reply on its (lack of) substance, but I’m afraid I can’t abstain and I must ask — just what exactly are “Chocolate Folks”? An insult? A popular culture reference? Some misguided joke that assumes that most musicians in that orchestra are Belgian citizens and somehow Belgium is *the* chocolate nation in the world (pace Switzerland, Italy, others)? Has anyone else ever referred to Belgians as “Chocolate Folks” (sic unciales litteræ)? Help.
Dear Lewes, I’m glad you decided to reply. It’s allowed me to apologize for my choice of word that caused such a terrible impact. Please, believe me, that there isn’t any trace of cynicism and I tell you that I call my folks as “wine guys”, and the reason is that we produce proudly the best in the world. In fact, a colloquial language doesn’t work for writing purposes.
My biggest mistake was to mix arts with political issues. Rarely It works for the later. That’s the only thing I didn’t agree with Belgium Phil. attitude.
The good point is that from a democratical perspective, the orchestra could give us their opinion, as much me and you. We all have a chance to rephrase for a more constructive meaning. In the end, we all respect the majority desire.
On the other hand, you remind us that argumentum ad hominem is just a dialectic stratagem. Something we all need to avoid. I just have faith in San Jerónimo.