I hate political correctness too - "all men [and women] are created equal"
in dignity, but they're hardly equal in talent and ability. But in regards
to the dearth of female composers, the obvious question is how many great
ones we might have had if women had been as free as men to compose. Any
talent, no matter how great, can be suppressed if the talented person is
deprived of the time and education and opportunity to develop and showcase
her gift.
L'Amour de Loin sounded wonderful last night, and I have more of Saariaho's
work cued up on You Tube now. I can't wait for the HD!
Ken
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The late musicologist Karen Monson said years ago that you cannot suppress
a talent on the order of Mozart and since no female composer ever
demonstrated anything approaching that it is obvious that music is not an
area in which women excel. They may be the equal or even superior to men in
literature or other arts... but in music the evidence suggests otherwise.
It may be a bitter pill for feminists to swallow but that's the way it is.
Here is my question.
What is it about this PC culture that makes so many people pretend to
believe that both genders and all ethnic groups are perfectly equal in all
endeavors? Maybe the Greeks actually were greater philosophers than the
Spartans. And maybe the English actually produced literary works greater
than the Norwegians. And I'll go out on a limb here - maybe German
composers were actually superior to Indonesian ones.... Those who deny the
obvious to be politically correct are the same ones who insist that at
airport checkpoints Swedish grandmothers must be searched just as carefully
as young Muslim males from the Middle East.
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