A”rt collectors and dealers say they are already getting queries about artifacts looted from Iraq’s museums, and the FBI said today at least one suspected piece had been seized at an American airport.”
Tag: 04.22.03
In-House Orchestra Recording Riles Labels
As major recording labels backed off recording orchestras, some of the orchestras began producing their own discs. They’ve done okay, but “these homegrown labels are not a development that the majors’ classics division chiefs particularly welcome. EMI Classics, indeed, has become so riled by LSO Live that they have stopped hiring the London Symphony Orchestra for their own recording projects.”
Language Police To The Rescue (Who Needs This Kind OF Saving?)
The language police have made it a crusade to expurgate language that could be offensive to some from American schoolbooks. “On the theory that a proper K-12 education should upset no one and affirm all, elaborate protocols now exist for the content of classroom materials. Anything even remotely sexist is verboten. Banished from respectable texts are such troublemakers as ‘babe,’ ‘chick’ and ‘co-ed,’ but so too are solid citizens like ‘actress,’ ‘brotherhood’ and ‘cattleman.’ Women are not to be portrayed as frightened, indecisive or vain; men as too assertive, analytical or violent. As for race and ethnicity, perish the stereotypical thought that Asians are studious and hardworking, that blacks excel in sports and music, or that Jews ever lived in tenements…” A new book reveals how far the rewriting goes.