Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Elitism on the world's great orchestral stages

Also see this bigot alert.

2007-03-30T22:53:00.000+01:00

I'm about as far politically as is possible from t...

2007-03-30T22:26:00.000+01:00

I'm about as far politically as is possible from the ethos of the American Spectator, but Dennis is correct, I'd say. Stirling Newberry loses all credibility by not even knowing which site made the comments he's criticizing.

Pliable, I love your blog and I've been reading it for about 2 years now (thank you Alex Ross!), but may I gently make a style suggestion? I know by now that things in Arial font (or very similar) are being quoted and that your comments are in Times New Roman font (or very similar). I can see how that could be confusing for newcomers. Maybe you could use italics to set off what you are quoting or do this

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or block it in a box? Just a suggestion.

Your faithful reader,
Henry Holland

How anyone could refer to that article as bigoted ...

2007-03-30T15:30:00.000+01:00

How anyone could refer to that article as bigoted or racist is beyond me. Did Agonist even read it? Or does he just assume anyone opposed to quotas and "affirmative action" is a racists? The article was arguing against Aaron Dworkin's attempts to force artificial "diveristy" into orchestras based on extra-musical considerations such as race, at the expense of strictly musical ability. That is not racist, it is anti-racist. Indeed, one could argue that in his intense focus on all things racial, it is Dworkin who is the racist here, not the American Spectator author.

Interesting link.

2007-03-30T12:53:00.000+01:00

Interesting link.

Bigots like to be outraged about reverse discrimin...

2007-03-30T07:42:00.000+01:00

Bigots like to be outraged about reverse discrimination in theory, while covering up and lying about real discrimination in practice. I urge people that have Overgrown Path blogrolled to ask themselves why they are sending traffic to a bigot and thus tacitly approving of the bigotry that is purveyed there. says
www.agonist.org presumably before reading this, this, this, this, this, and countless other articles.

I guess I forgot that whatever side you are on "to provide food for thought" people actually had to read the blog.

Anyway thanks for the traffic.

Perhaps Christopher Orlet should be advised that J...

2007-03-30T03:41:00.000+01:00

Perhaps Christopher Orlet should be advised that Juilliard is the correct spelling of the name of the school. "Julliard" is not correct.