{"id":31022,"date":"2011-03-16T15:08:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T23:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=31022"},"modified":"2011-03-16T15:08:33","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T23:08:33","slug":"was-wagner-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=31022","title":{"rendered":"Was Wagner Right?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.binala.org\/content\/wagner-was-right-eclecticism-and-jewish-aesthetic\">Daniel Rodwin writes<\/a>: Wagner said Jews are incapable of creating great music because, having no homeland, they pull sounds from all traditions into the &#8220;motlyest chaos.&#8221; Could such an anti-Semite be even partially correct? And if he was, how is it that Jewish composers from Leonard Bernstein to Phillip Glass have dominated America\u2019s &#8220;classical&#8221; new music scene since it began? We&#8217;ll trace a century of &#8220;serious music&#8221; to see if there&#8217;s any consistency to the Jewish Aesthetic. And at the end, we&#8217;ll uncover who the next generation of Jewish composers are \u2013 and why haven\u2019t you heard of them.<\/p>\n<p><object style=\"height: 390px; width: 640px\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RkfGEqo3YjQ?version=3\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RkfGEqo3YjQ?version=3\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\"><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Rodwin writes: Wagner said Jews are incapable of creating great music because, having no homeland, they pull sounds from all traditions into the &#8220;motlyest chaos.&#8221; Could such an anti-Semite be even partially correct? And if he was, how is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=31022\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25838,25],"tags":[6128,25839,25840,25843,25841,25842],"class_list":["post-31022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bina","category-music","tag-anti-semite","tag-jewish-composers","tag-leonard-bernstein","tag-music-scene","tag-phillip-glass","tag-serious-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31023,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31022\/revisions\/31023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}