Anonymous
Post 02/08/2025 23:19     Subject: Trump to become chair of Kennedy Center
Anonymous wrote:TAKE IT TO POLITICS!


Yeah we will when Trump takes politics out of our premiere national performing arts center …
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2025 23:18     Subject: Trump to become chair of Kennedy Center
Anonymous wrote:What if he just got glued orange peels all over the bust


😀

I was just looking at that bust of JFK in the KC and wondering how he would desecrate it. Orange peels all over it would be perfect
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2025 17:18     Subject: Trump to become chair of Kennedy Center
The man would not even attend the Kennedy Center Honors during his first term. Unreal.
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2025 16:49     Subject: Trump to become chair of Kennedy Center
lol let’s be real, it’s going to be all Andrew Lloyd Webber from now on.

https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/ncna1280264
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2025 16:47     Subject: Re:Trump to become chair of Kennedy Center
Rotating residencies of Jason Aldean and Carrie Underwood for the next 4 years would sellout immediately, tragically.
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2025 16:43     Subject: Trump to become chair of Kennedy Center
Anonymous wrote:This is a distraction from the more terrible things going on. They just want a firehose of news so that no one stops them.


Yes, just like the Gaza announcement. Trump's job is to be the circus monkey.
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2025 16:42     Subject: Trump to become chair of Kennedy Center
Anonymous wrote:Concerts to honor the leader.


This. It's so reminiscent of a certain mustachioed leader. Actually several.
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2025 16:36     Subject: Trump to become chair of Kennedy Center
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I’m guessing the NSO will only play Wagner from now on


Better than Mahler!


Anything is better than Mahler.
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2025 14:51     Subject: Trump to become chair of Kennedy Center
Ballet will go because OMG...there are gays. Whoever thinks this is OK is as dumb AF.
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2025 14:49     Subject: Trump to become chair of Kennedy Center
Is this another way to launder money?
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2025 14:38     Subject: Trump to become chair of Kennedy Center
Anonymous wrote:Concerts to honor the leader.


Or more apropos: Concerts to honor Dear Leader.
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2025 14:22     Subject: Trump to become chair of Kennedy Center
Anonymous wrote:Ballet and opera will very much stay, OP. They are the bulwarks of classic art in the western tradition.

You don't seem to understand that Trump is a white supremacist neo-fascist who wants a return to classicism. He said so, during his first administrations. Why do you think his NY apartment looks like a mini Versailles?

What will go is anything not from the western canon: the world music festivals, anything from the African continent or that celebrates non-white cultures. Except possibly Jewish culture, on sufferance only and just because they want to stick it to Arabs. Not because Trump, despite his Jewish relatives and strong support of Israel, actually likes Jews.

Wagner, here we come.


No way. It will be things like country music, Lee Greenwood stuff. Ballet and opera are woke.
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2025 13:33     Subject: Trump to become chair of Kennedy Center
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Ballet and opera will very much stay, OP. They are the bulwarks of classic art in the western tradition.

You don't seem to understand that Trump is a white supremacist neo-fascist who wants a return to classicism. He said so, during his first administrations. Why do you think his NY apartment looks like a mini Versailles?

What will go is anything not from the western canon: the world music festivals, anything from the African continent or that celebrates non-white cultures. Except possibly Jewish culture, on sufferance only and just because they want to stick it to Arabs. Not because Trump, despite his Jewish relatives and strong support of Israel, actually likes Jews.

Wagner, here we come.



But people will not buy tickets anymore. Let’s be honest that it was mostly rich liberals going to the Kennedy Center. Doubt the MAGA crowd will buy tickets for ballet and opera. RIP Kennedy Center


How very wrong you are. Ticket sales will stay the same, because actual music amateurs like me will want to support the artists no matter what, and anyone who needs to negotiate deals with this White House and this party will want to cozy up to the Board, which means donating/attending/etc.

As has always been done. Nothing will actually change, except, as I said, from some programming restrictions, since this White House seems to think some cultures are better than others.


Anonymous
Post 02/08/2025 13:21     Subject: Trump to become chair of Kennedy Center
Anonymous wrote:Ballet and opera will very much stay, OP. They are the bulwarks of classic art in the western tradition.

You don't seem to understand that Trump is a white supremacist neo-fascist who wants a return to classicism. He said so, during his first administrations. Why do you think his NY apartment looks like a mini Versailles?

What will go is anything not from the western canon: the world music festivals, anything from the African continent or that celebrates non-white cultures. Except possibly Jewish culture, on sufferance only and just because they want to stick it to Arabs. Not because Trump, despite his Jewish relatives and strong support of Israel, actually likes Jews.

Wagner, here we come.



But people will not buy tickets anymore. Let’s be honest that it was mostly rich liberals going to the Kennedy Center. Doubt the MAGA crowd will buy tickets for ballet and opera. RIP Kennedy Center
Anonymous
Post 02/08/2025 13:21     Subject: Trump to become chair of Kennedy Center
Concerts to honor the leader.