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vlyons

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7. So I guess Porgy and Bess gets banned too

Sat Sep 30, 2023, 10:05 PM

Sep 2023

How many thousands of renditions of Summertime have been recorded? Well ya can't listen or play that one any more. And while we're banning black music, I guess blues, jazz, motown, black gospel, and rocknroll gotta go too.

and gay musicians -- Queen & Freddie Mercury, Ricky Martin, Elton John, Melissa Etheridge, Dusty Springfield, ---

There were gay classical composers that get banned too, like Handel (sigh, no more Messiah & Halleluia Chorus), Benjamin Brittain, Franz Schubert, Saint-Saëns, Lully, Tchaikovsky (sigh no more Swan Lake), Copeland (sigh, no more Appalachian Spring), AND NO MORE COLE PORTER!!!

All complements of the "Freedom" party.

Do you see how stupid this all is?

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OMG - Offensive Opera!!!! [View all] NowISeetheLight Sep 2023 OP

I used to know someone who sighed ALL THE TIME. It got really irritating. Now, that is increasingly hlthe2b Sep 2023 #1

But operas about female sexual assault written by white guys, vlyons Sep 2023 #2

Like Book Bans NowISeetheLight Sep 2023 #3

Next thing you know sdfernando Sep 2023 #6

"I am the last line of defense between our children and dodecaphony!!" hatrack Oct 2023 #12

I have seen "The Hours" and "Fire Shut Up In My Bones," Ocelot II Sep 2023 #4

So I guess Porgy and Bess gets banned too vlyons Sep 2023 #7

But "Porgy and Bess" was written by a White guy, so it's OK. Ocelot II Sep 2023 #8

But Gershwin was a Jew, so does that count as being white? vlyons Sep 2023 #9

Harper Valley PTA struggle4progress Sep 2023 #5

How do they feel about the incest in Die Walkure? Incest seems kind of "inappropriate" wackadoo wabbit Oct 2023 #10

Lots of incest in the Ring. Siegmund and Sieglinde are the twin children of Wotan. Ocelot II Oct 2023 #13

Oooh, you're right! I'd totally forgotten that Brunnhilde and Siegfriend were aunt and nephew wackadoo wabbit Oct 2023 #18

Well, I guess Salome's off the air, given that it's about necrophilia . . . hatrack Oct 2023 #11

It is going to be awfully quiet on those air waves... Hugin Oct 2023 #14

Opera is rife with murder, adultery, suicide, rape, infanticide, incest, Ocelot II Oct 2023 #15

Just like the Bible. (In their minds) Hugin Oct 2023 #17

Wait, what's this "radio" of which you speak? gulliver Oct 2023 #16

Narn Opera? (a very few will get this 😁 ) electric_blue68 Oct 2023 #19