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Anonymous wrote:It just feels like a firehose of shit. I can't even have musicals to make me feel better. Just destroy everything.

Too true and LOL. So does this mean we won't be seeing amazing productions anymore there, just weird boring dumb stuff?

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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.

Actually PP was correct - many people have cancelled their subscriptions already.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m guessing the NSO will only play Wagner from now on

Stfu

Anonymous wrote:I would expect a lot of WWE and UFC events.

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Anonymous wrote:TAKE IT TO POLITICS!

Yeah we will when Trump takes politics out of our premiere national performing arts center …

Anonymous wrote:It just feels like a firehose of shit. I can't even have musicals to make me feel better. Just destroy everything.

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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 that is true - and the mass deportations, and exploitation of racism, religion and nationalism are also distractions from the unconstitutional hijacking of US federal government.

The trouble is the MAGA cult are blurring boundaries between politics, religion and now entertainment …

Control the news, control social media, control what art gets made...

Sound familiar to anyone else?

Anonymous wrote:Like a dog back for revenge he’s putting his mark on the Kennedy Center by pissing on it

Anonymous wrote:It's all intended to be a distraction from taking over the government and removing the power of the purse from congress. Just like the announcement about sending 30K humans to a concentration camp in Cuba erased the story of going back on the grants freeze. Just like the story of taking over Gaza erased the story of 23 year olds with their fingers in all the data systems, deciding what to kill without the consultation and compromise typical in a democracy. They are flooding the zone.

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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 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.

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Anonymous wrote:God, he's pathetic

Yup.

The sad part is that this is going to doom the Kennedy Center. Who's going to renew their membership now?