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October 24, 2006
Insides out
The concert I attended over the weekend is covered in much greater detail by Inquirer music critic David Patrick Stearns -- who noticed a somewhat disturbing political perspective: ...the sort of special attention the [Curtis Symphony] orchestra brings to whatever it plays allowed it to deliver Benjamin Britten's Violin Concerto from semi-obscurity Sunday at the Kimmel Center.When I was in my 20s I don't think I had a securely constructed worldview, as I grew up during the height of the Cold War and its much hotter Vietnam proxy war. While I was eventually blown to smithereens by certain events (namely the AIDS virus) I don't know whether to call that outside or inside. However, I am deeply concerned about the lessons of the Spanish Civil War, and I worry that this painting (Dali's "Soft Construction with Boiled Beans: Premonitions of Civil War") might accurately depict a recurrent historical pattern: When democracy degenerates into one class being forced to feed another, the result is a cannibalistic orgy of horror. A war (brought on by cycles of violent political indigestion) between malignant "isms," one of which will "win." It's also interesting the way political food fights tend to be sexually packaged. (If I'm lucky I won't live to see America repeat the tragedy of the Spanish Civil War. I'd hate to have to become a "real" traitor.) posted by Eric on 10.24.06 at 08:31 AM |
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