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Orwellingly Yurz
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 Posted - 08/31/2007 : 14:13:04
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YO: Just THIS In...
German Orchestra Performs in Iran 1:17 PM ET
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- The woman musicians wore headscarves, but that didn't hinder them in playing Beethoven and Brahms in a rare performance by a Western classical orchestra in the capital of the Islamic Republic.
Orwellingly Yurz sez:
I think the men in this orchestra should have gotten together and worn headscarves, as well, while on stage. Beethoven and Brahms transcend archaic religio-tribe culture.
Any woman in the orchestra who believes, religiously, as the power elite in Iran, has a perfect right to wear a headscarve. But what about the females in the group who aren't? These women shouldn't be held accountable for any "dirty" thoughts that might come upon the minds of males in the audience because the womens' necks and ears can be seen in public. That "problem" is the property of the guys in the concert hall, not the gals.
Grow up and wise up, before there isn't a planet to live on in this neck of the universe!
OY!
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HalfMooner
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Posted - 08/31/2007 : 14:59:41 [Permalink]
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I wonder if they would be allowed to play any of the works of Felix Mendelssohn? The requirement of head scarves for the female musicians seems to me to be a no-starter condition. What German orchestra was this, that caved in to that requirement?
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The Rat
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Posted - 08/31/2007 : 15:53:02 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
The requirement of head scarves for the female musicians seems to me to be a no-starter condition. What German orchestra was this, that caved in to that requirement? |
Doesn't bother me. When in Rome...
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Orwellingly Yurz
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Posted - 08/31/2007 : 20:41:45 [Permalink]
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YO: The Rat said...
Doesn't bother me. When in Rome...
OY sez....When in Rome, do as the Romans demand or else? OY!
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"The modern conservative...is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
--John Kenneth Galbraith
If dogs run free
Then what must be,
Must be...
And that is all
--Bob Dylan
The neo-cons have gotten welfare for themselves down to a fine art.
--me
"The meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights."
--J. Paul Getty
"The great thing about Art isn't what it give us, but what we become through it."
--Oscar Wilde
"We have Art in order not to die of life."
--Albert Camus
"I cling like a miser to the freedom I lose when surrounded by an abundance of things."
--Albert Camus
"Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes."
--Oscar Wilde |
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Beethoven/Brahms In Tehran
