Lincoln Center replaces Mostly Mozart with drag queens
NewsThey’ve announced the 2024 program today. Here’s one report:
This summer’s programming, just announced, will lead off with “the debut duet of two superstar queens from the blockbuster reality competition ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race,’” followed by “Argentinian queercore,” comedians of “Indian heritage” and “silent disco.”
Shanta Thake, the center’s chief artistic officer, pledged to “really confront our past head-on as we move into the future” by “opening this up and really saying that this is music that belongs to everyone” — implying, of course, that Mozart does not belong to everyone.
Read on here.
I’m so sick of this detritus emanating – as ever – from the USA.
Remind me, please, what nationality Conchita Wurst is?..
She is from Spanish-speaking US inhabitants, as the name clearly indicates.
And don’t they get super nasty when you point this out. Nothing like the truth to get Lefties into a maelstrom.
I wonder if there’s any link between this and people’s support of Donald Trump?! Nah. Of course not.
Not Lefties, please! Although they are often mistaken for those on the left, and sometimes try to disguise themselves as such, they are Liberal Progressives – a different species, and driven by ideological certainty.
progressive is code for socialist
Marxist in the US
Liberal progressives or progressive liberals?
have you not noticed spain, france, england, scotland, ireland or germany?
God help us all. I want no part of this anymore.
Granted; you no longer work at Lincoln Center. Please stay away.
Apparently you never did either or you would know what NYC on the Upper West Side was like when Lincoln Center went in and the Highschool of Performing arts was built etc. I love the reinvention of history. Why don’t you research the garbage strike of 1968 to get a feel for what Lincoln Center replaced. I love these people who have no idea about anything including the diversity that Lincoln Center embraced from the beginning. Its news to all of us that Mozart isn’t for everyone. It might also be news that the drag shows aren’t for everyone. There is nothing wrong with a drag show but it is not classical music and the venues for classical music have a right to exist as well. Never has there been a wealth of diverse musicians, women in orchestras, black opera singers, and the lot of morons want to tear down the arts now that there is greater diversity.
New York, Lincoln Center, and “Liberal Arts Programs” – if not programming – have long ago rejected God.
Deuteronomy 22:5
“The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.”
I take care not to fund any of these.
“Now there was leaning on Jesus’ bosom one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved.”
John 13:23
So, whatever you want to explain about that, please go ahead.
The most risible piece of equivalence I’ve read here in a very long time.
If you can’t read Ancient Greek or Hebrew, you haven’t read the Bible – you’ve only read English translations, all of which are very poor. and in many cases, simply wrong. So stop using scripture as a stick to beat people with.
Let’s be honest.
No one ever liked Mozart.
Too many notes.
Too few instruments.
Boom. The death of legacy arts organizations accelerates yet again.
Yes of course, Lincoln Center will cease by next Thursday. So right!
/s
Certainly not. This will be death by a thousand cuts. With lots of bwaaaaa going on in accompaniment. Toys from cots. The whole catastrophe.
Perhaps not by Thursday week, but it has dumbed down considerably during the past twenty years.
Dimwit Democrats who vote for this every time will now look around and ask-“Whuh happened??”
I’m just delighted that NYC, from the deluge of illegals, the punch-happy thugs, the crime to now the replacement Mozart with degenerate drag-queens, is getting precisely what it voted for.
Democracy!
As if the GOP knows who Mozart is or has any interest in the arts. They just want to control what we see and hear. If I want to go to a drag show or a Mozart concert, it’s not a political statement . It’s entertainment. Something different. If that condems me to burn in hell, then I accept that. Could be a simple explanation:
The drag queens put on a better show. Someone has to keep an eye on the bottom line. Dimwit Democrats and Godlessness aren’t to blame for everything. I don’t recall the mozart/ drag queen proposition being on any ballots. No, democrats didn’t vote for it. It’s also not the end of the world. As far as the problems of the world we need to work to change, this is way WAY down the list, and nothing to get you shorts all in a twist about.
Well said!
Those who want to go will go, those who don’t, won’t. If enough people go it will continue, If not enough people go, it won’t continue.
Of course they didn’t ‘vote’ for it. But their free-for-all social agenda spawns exactly this kind of uncouth decadence.
Conservatives donate a ton to the arts. You really think Democrats support all of Texas and their arts? Zell at the CSO was a republican
Spoken with all the wisdom of a Fox News foot-soldier with a room-temperature I.Q. Go visit your January 6th thug-pals as they rot in jail.
spoken
ike a brainwashed socialist. ha! not everyone who disagrees with you is far right. geesh.
Your last word is a sad testament of the collective IQ.
I find this “report” untrustworthy. It implies classical music / Mozart was removed altogether from Lincoln Center summer activities. The Festival Orchestra is still putting on seven top-tier programs this July/Aug. Yes, greatly diminished from Langrée’s staged productions, which I do miss… but still excellent “Western culture” nonetheless.
No source for the “742” happily relocated families, no source for the internal census proving the Puerto Rican neighborhood was 75% white…
Not to mention this “report” being a New York Post opinion piece by someone who seriously argued on Fox News that the metric system be abolished.
A west side story.
Bravo, bravo. My thoughts exactly.
Define “top tier”. There is nothing to make me travel to New York in these programs. If I were to live in NY, I would have probably attended perhaps two concerts: the Prieto / Ginastera and the one in which they do the complete Pulcinella, as opposite to the suite that we normally hear.
But then the Baltimore Symphony has done a complete Pulcinella relatively recent, so no need to pack for NY for this. And there is always Ansermet’s nonpareil recording.
Woke mind virus strikes again!
I don’t mind and they don’t matter.
Pre-2019: Mostly Mozart.
Post-2019: Barely Any Mozart.
The linked article from the Post – comparable to much of your Fleet Street rubbish – doesn’t actually discuss the programming. “Mostly Mozart” kind of exhausted itself after nearly 50 years. Maybe time for something else. They still do have an orchestra – now to be led by Jonathan Heyward. So it’s not going to be all drag queens.
And true, probably don’t need to lament the demise of the tenements, but in a day when denial of the Holocaust, Armenian Genocide, and the Srebrenica massacre remain alive and well, probably not good to criticize acknowledgment of past wrongs.
You know very well that, in spite of its title, Mozart’s music was actually a small part of the program concerts in the last decade or so of the festival. The programs were varied and interesting, and soe were the guest ensembles. This has been discussed before.
More excerpt from NY Post article —
“There indeed was a time when this area was a nexus of black New York.
But its cultural height had come and gone long before… the entire area was in an advanced state of decay.”
Such tears from the Brexiters; me thinks they doth protest too much.
Is there an off button on you? Begone, degenerate.
New Criterion? /flush
Sad day for everyone.
Why do arts organizations historically dedicated to the performance of classical music all of the sudden find that putting on drag shows is part of their purview? I don’t see night clubs which have historically hosted drag shows all of the sudden deciding to put on, say, Le Nozze di Figaro. I am not one of those proposing the wholesale banning of drag shows. If you want to attend such fare, whatever. Live and let live. But when such a spectacle starts showing up at libraries so drag queens can read to children (I still haven’t figured out what the hell that’s all about) and at Lincoln Center replacing Mozart, there’s something rotten in the state of Denmark, indeed.
Can’t wait to hear their rendition of the Queen of the Night arias from Die Zauberflöte.
Drag Queens at a Mostly Mozart event could also be a bunch of viola players, trying to dress better…
Hey Fred, let’s be fraaaaands
Brutal. And hilarious.
The ‘biblical’ degenerates here who quote translations are a bit ill. The Mozart Festival had run its course a few years ago, and inclusion is far better than Murdoch’s ‘Post.’ Perhaps ‘The Sun’ will reprint from what is a reprint.
I am not religious but a happy heathen yet remind you of ‘love thy brother.’ Then of course there is WAM’s stellar life.
Well,
They made no secret of their hatred for classical music.
It’s about time the adults in the room step in and tell these children “No, you cannot destroy classical music with your neoliberal postmodern woke trash”.
We need to start cleaning up the mess in the room.
It figures
They’re getting ready for Dudamel, and trump supporters can throw their money at trump’s exorbitant legal fees. Older folks without excess money to blow will probably just enjoy nice simple evenings in great weather watching the kids make a ruckus.
Trump made billions in the Truth public offering. He doesn’t need my money.
Classy. No, truly; it’s real classy.
The NYC Left love their unions and love their DEI stuff. From NY Phil players to Lincoln Center programming, the wrongness of the Left will be all that’s Left.
Trump will likely win in 2024 not because he’s the better candidate, but because the Left has veered so far off track; sanity remains Right.
Sad.
I dare you to survey the minorities who go to classical music concerts. Most will tell you they come to hear the masterpieces of dead white male masters. By the same token, I don’t know any black people who go to see “Casablanca’ and say they wish Ingrid Bergman’s character was a colored woman.
It is a sign of the times, and Americans are far from alone. From Swedish televisions homepage today (“Culture News”): Now the Venice Biennale opens. The Swedish artist Lap-See Lam is exhibiting the all-art work “The Altersea Opera” – created together with the Finnish artist Kholod Hawash and the Norwegian composer Tze Yeung Ho. The installation/performance follows “the journey of a hybrid fish-man searching for his roots”.
Drag Queens are the property of the Village, not the UWS. This “festival” started out a number of years ago as a good thing. Now it’s a DEI series of events in the wrong part of town.
I like drag queens, when I’m among them, I feel less self-conscious.
Sally
Maybe all this is why the Lincoln Center CEO is leaving early. Anyway, they’re really just copying the programming of City Parks Foundation’s Summerstage, the River to River Festival, BRIC, etc. Maybe this is an opportunity for others to program the music that Lincoln Center no longer will
Hysterical amounts of pearl clutching. Take a chill pill and see a drag show, you might-GASP-enjoy it!!!
The real loss for Classical Music at Lincoln Center has been the Great Performers series, which brought in quite a few touring groups from around the world. It is sadly ironic that Geffen Hall has seen the new refurbishment that improved the acoustics accompanied by the loss of any touring groups that can actually take advantage of better acoustics; much better to stage “multicultural” events that are mostly drawn from the pop world than actually schedule something with any depth that actually fits the surroundings.
Woke mind virus strikes again.
Enjoy the views from the rubble progressives. Jsmdh.