tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2139516384946441097.post8456970325779379814..comments2024-03-04T11:50:26.682-08:00Comments on Orpheus Complex: Music is PowerGavin Dixonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14964697822945501178noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2139516384946441097.post-44205790581834773422015-02-13T04:20:59.077-08:002015-02-13T04:20:59.077-08:00Love the Les pic, but shame that it had to come to...Love the Les pic, but shame that it had to come to this. I'm still boycotting Gergiev's concerts - though I made an inconsistent exception to hear Shchedrin's Levsha, and excellent it was too - though I don't equate his variable performances with his, yes, butt-licking of Putin. I do wonder if there's an element of inflation and heaviness which has come with his drive to world mastery, though.<br /><br />But yes, you've put your finger on what academics like to call 'bad binaries', and worse. What with this and Igor Toronyi Lalic's disgraceful, similarly ill-argued piece last week about why ENO ought to go, The Speccie arts coverage should be a laughing stockDavid Nicehttp://www.davidnice.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com