Re: Oxford Music Professors: Sheet Music is White Supremacy

On Fri, 17 May 2024 00:42:52 -0700
The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:

On Thu, 16 May 2024 13:09:59 -0700, BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
 

Yes, and because the current system isn't a dream for sight-readers,
that means it's a racist form of white supremacy.
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(Because only white people can sight read perfectly or something.)
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<rolls eyes> 

 
I'm pretty sure there were and are a few black musicians who have
managed the feat and somehow a lot of the concert pianists these days
are of Asian origin...

I wouldn't expect that to continue if I were you.

As I understand it, Asian musicians expressed concerns that they
weren't getting performance gigs as white musicians and attributed this
to race. To address that, all or most auditions for orchestras started
being done behind screens so that the judges could only hear the
performance but not see the performer. But apparently Asians are now
seen as white or white allies and a certain group of people who I'll
call People of Darker Colour (PODC) are demanding that they simply be
given positions on orchestras without auditioning because they have
been discriminated against in the past. I assume they're proposing some
kind of quota system but I'm not sure what percentage of the slots
they're demanding.

Now, I don't know if this proposal is finding any support among the
people who decide these things but, given the way things are going in
general, I would be surprised if this was NOT done. Competence is going
out of the window to be replaced by hiring on the basis of skin colour.

I'm sure the usual suspects will be along momentarily to deny all of
this and/or defend it.

--
Rhino