tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post2459897629182120061..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Talking of blacklists ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-87752609171179298452008-10-22T17:33:00.000+01:002008-10-22T17:33:00.000+01:00Michael, no problem at all. You know by now, I am ...Michael, no problem at all. <BR/><BR/>You know by now, I am sure, that very little phases me - except dishonesty. <BR/><BR/>And I know, in turn, that although your comments may sometimes be impassioned, they are always honest.Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-84451108302746176282008-10-22T17:18:00.000+01:002008-10-22T17:18:00.000+01:00Dear Pliable: Sorry for the intemperance of the ab...Dear Pliable: Sorry for the intemperance of the above remarks. I get sick of the same old ideologies and counterideologies being recycled endlessly but that's certainly no excuse for rude language. And "rabblerouser" was being used with affection and irony but it doesn't come across that way. Apologies.Civic Centerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12362422142667230626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-84836804651784574352008-10-22T08:28:00.000+01:002008-10-22T08:28:00.000+01:00Different strokes for different folks ...On An Ove...Different strokes for different folks ...<BR/><BR/><I>On An Overgrown Path</I> will continue to remember <I>'the rabblerousers who are being held up as the paragon of martyrdom'</I> as well as highlighting both the new and the absurd.<BR/><BR/>Similarly, I am sure others will <I>'frigging move on'</I> in their own unique way.Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-16082470560078246952008-10-22T06:20:00.000+01:002008-10-22T06:20:00.000+01:00Stop slagging on John Adams for his "blacklisting"...Stop slagging on John Adams for his "blacklisting" remark. In truth, he was blacklisted from opera houses worldwide after "The Death of Klinghoffer" for depicting Arab terrorists as human beings. The subject was more because of the Peter Sellars/Alice Goodman impresario/librettist relationship than Adams' own sympathies, but I have nothing but respect for him for not backing down from the integrity of his own work.<BR/><BR/>As for the rabblerousers who are being held up as the paragon of martyrdom, it sometimes feels like nothing more than Old Testament schisms, with all the passions that old yin/yang passions between capitalism and communism / fascism and anarchism have entailed over the last 150 years. It's time to frigging move on.Civic Centerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12362422142667230626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-21117139992645810572008-10-22T05:07:00.000+01:002008-10-22T05:07:00.000+01:00Thanks for remembering Ray Lev. I never knew her b...Thanks for remembering Ray Lev. I never knew her but she was one of a number of New York-based left wing artists my folks knew through political activism. I've been told she committed suicide, partway through a project of recording the complete piano music of Robert Schumann. What a cruel, pointless destruction of a human being and a career; truly that was Scoundrel Time, in Lillian Hellman's phrase.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com