NYT Classical Music Critic Anthony Tommasini Wrongly and Secretly Smuggles His Warped Personal Political Ideas Into

In a Sunday (7/30) New York Times article, classical music critic Anthony Tommasini comments on President Trump’s July 6 speech extolling Western values in which Trump declared, “We write symphonies.” Tommasini writes that the president’s “invocation of the Western symphonic heritage … pressed a sore spot for me as a music critic. Nothing impedes the appreciation of classical music—and keeps potential listeners away—more than the perception that it is an elitist art form.… (Yeah, Anthony, …as if everyone can play a musical instrument.. OF COURSE MUSIC IS ELITIST!… Why? Because only a few therefore very elite human beings can play a musical instrument let alone compose music, let alone compose music for a symphony orchestra. That makes music elite but Anthony failed to notice that Trump was talking about “Our Community of Nations… NATIONS!.. Nations Anthony, nothing elitist about Nations, you moron!) Further: just because people have ears that can hear music doesn’t mean they can read or write music or even play a musical instrument. Those actions make those who possess musical ability rare.. Rare and Elite!

Anthony drones on: “Few classical music fans, in my experience, argue that the Western symphonic repertory stands apart from or atop music of other cultures, or other types of Western music. (Anthony has far too little experience to talk of other cultures. Some cultures have no music. Other cultures have childish music. Western music is noticeably better, not just better but superior.) “But with just three words Mr. Trump buttressed this unfortunate perception. Did he mean that Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ Symphony is simply greater than, say, an Indian sitar master playing a classic raga? (Of course it is!) “Or an exhilarating Indonesian gamelan ensemble? … ‘Eleanor Rigby,’ I’d argue, is just as profound as Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ Symphony. (Anthony is showing us his complete ignorance.) “But the Mahler, scored for large orchestra, chorus and two vocal soloists, is a whole lot longer, lasting more than 80 minutes.… It’s this large-scale quality, the sheer dimension of expression that the master composers strove for, that makes classical music different. This doesn’t mean it’s superior.”

Holy cow!.. Anthony should be fired. He belongs on a street corner selling newspapers, not working at the NYT. Go Anthony.. Go Away.. Go far away!

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