PoliticalChic
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O'Sullivan's First Law states not only a truth about the direction of society, but explains the reason, as well:
"O'Sullivan's First Law: All organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing. I cite as supporting evidence the ACLU, the Ford Foundation, and the Episcopal Church. The reason is, of course, that people who staff such bodies tend to be the sort who don't like private profit, business, making money, the current organization of society, and, by extension, the Western world. " http://old.nationalreview.com/flashback/flashback-jos062603.asp
That means that such folks push society Leftward. The The Metropolitan Opera need be added to the list.
1. " [The Opera] 'The Death of Klinghoffer' focused on an incident aboard the Italian tourist ship Achille Lauro in 1985, when a disabled Jewish passenger was slain by members of the Palestine Liberation Front. The terrorists ... shot Leon Klinghoffer in his wheelchair, then dumped the body overboard. All this was portrayed in melodramatic arias and choruses, with much emphasis given to the Palestinian party line.
2. .... Lisa and Ilsa Klinghoffer, daughters of the deceased: “We are outraged at the exploitation of our parents and the coldblooded murder of our father as the centerpiece of a production that appears to us to be anti-Semitic.” In response, composer John Adams, and librettist Alice Goodman insisted that they were only trying to give “equal voice” to Israel and the PLO.
a. ... their title gave the show away. It was not The Murder of Klinghoffer, or The Assassination of Klinghoffer, or The Execution of Klinghoffer. It was The Death of Klinghoffer, as if the 67-year-old had suffered cardiac arrest or succumbed to an asthma attack while on the sea.
3. In 2009, a scaled-down version went on at the Juilliard School of Music, but was condemned in Juilliard’s own periodical as “a political statement made by the composer to justify an act of terrorism by four Palestinians.” The school’s president disagreed. .... “have to be responsible for maintaining an environment in which challenging, as well as comforting, works of art are presented to the public.”
4. Only someone with extraordinary naiveté could imagine that a production of The Death of Klinghoffer could be staged in New York City in 2014 without a similar....reaction. ... that’s a fair description of the Metropolitan Opera’s general manager, Peter Gelb. The New York Post ran an op-ed by Ronn Torossian headlined “Metropolitan Opera romanticizes one NYer’s murder.”
5. .... in composing The Death of Klingoffer [Adams] tried to understand the hijackers and their motivations, and to look for humanity in the terrorists. What humanity can—or should—be found in the murders of innocents? .... One terrorist chorus begins, “Whenever poor men/ are gathered they can/ find Jews getting fat/ You know how to cheat/ the simple, exploit/ the virgin, pollute/ Where you have been exploited/ Defame those you cheated/ and break your own law/ with idolatry.”
6. [Gelb] canceled plans to televise the opera. The broadcasts “would be inappropriate at this time of rising anti-Semitism, particularly in Europe.”
a. This was too much for the New York Times. Its editorial, “The Met’s Bad Decision on a Controversial Opera,” castigated the general manager. “Mr. Gelb calls his decision a compromise, a bowing to the wishes of the Klinghoffer daughters and other Jewish critics of the John Adams opera. It is, in fact, a step backward for both the Met and for Mr. Gelb, who has championed the work of Mr. Adams, including this opera, which has been widely praised.”
Operatic Naivete by Stefan Kanfer, City Journal 24 June 2014
Disgusting.
The Left finds ways to express its hatred of Israel....and of Jewish folks.
And now we can see it on stage.
"O'Sullivan's First Law: All organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing. I cite as supporting evidence the ACLU, the Ford Foundation, and the Episcopal Church. The reason is, of course, that people who staff such bodies tend to be the sort who don't like private profit, business, making money, the current organization of society, and, by extension, the Western world. " http://old.nationalreview.com/flashback/flashback-jos062603.asp
That means that such folks push society Leftward. The The Metropolitan Opera need be added to the list.
1. " [The Opera] 'The Death of Klinghoffer' focused on an incident aboard the Italian tourist ship Achille Lauro in 1985, when a disabled Jewish passenger was slain by members of the Palestine Liberation Front. The terrorists ... shot Leon Klinghoffer in his wheelchair, then dumped the body overboard. All this was portrayed in melodramatic arias and choruses, with much emphasis given to the Palestinian party line.
2. .... Lisa and Ilsa Klinghoffer, daughters of the deceased: “We are outraged at the exploitation of our parents and the coldblooded murder of our father as the centerpiece of a production that appears to us to be anti-Semitic.” In response, composer John Adams, and librettist Alice Goodman insisted that they were only trying to give “equal voice” to Israel and the PLO.
a. ... their title gave the show away. It was not The Murder of Klinghoffer, or The Assassination of Klinghoffer, or The Execution of Klinghoffer. It was The Death of Klinghoffer, as if the 67-year-old had suffered cardiac arrest or succumbed to an asthma attack while on the sea.
3. In 2009, a scaled-down version went on at the Juilliard School of Music, but was condemned in Juilliard’s own periodical as “a political statement made by the composer to justify an act of terrorism by four Palestinians.” The school’s president disagreed. .... “have to be responsible for maintaining an environment in which challenging, as well as comforting, works of art are presented to the public.”
4. Only someone with extraordinary naiveté could imagine that a production of The Death of Klinghoffer could be staged in New York City in 2014 without a similar....reaction. ... that’s a fair description of the Metropolitan Opera’s general manager, Peter Gelb. The New York Post ran an op-ed by Ronn Torossian headlined “Metropolitan Opera romanticizes one NYer’s murder.”
5. .... in composing The Death of Klingoffer [Adams] tried to understand the hijackers and their motivations, and to look for humanity in the terrorists. What humanity can—or should—be found in the murders of innocents? .... One terrorist chorus begins, “Whenever poor men/ are gathered they can/ find Jews getting fat/ You know how to cheat/ the simple, exploit/ the virgin, pollute/ Where you have been exploited/ Defame those you cheated/ and break your own law/ with idolatry.”
6. [Gelb] canceled plans to televise the opera. The broadcasts “would be inappropriate at this time of rising anti-Semitism, particularly in Europe.”
a. This was too much for the New York Times. Its editorial, “The Met’s Bad Decision on a Controversial Opera,” castigated the general manager. “Mr. Gelb calls his decision a compromise, a bowing to the wishes of the Klinghoffer daughters and other Jewish critics of the John Adams opera. It is, in fact, a step backward for both the Met and for Mr. Gelb, who has championed the work of Mr. Adams, including this opera, which has been widely praised.”
Operatic Naivete by Stefan Kanfer, City Journal 24 June 2014
Disgusting.
The Left finds ways to express its hatred of Israel....and of Jewish folks.
And now we can see it on stage.
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