Short article on the ethical status of classical music performance in a time of war. Do musicians who publicly espouse a national identity have a duty to represent that nation in more or less consciously political senses? If not, is music free of all obligation to respond to political crises, when its cultural identity is implicated in war? Published online in Overland Literary Journal, March 29th, 2025: https://overland.org.au/2025/05/a-change-of-program-classical-music-performance-in-a-time-of-war/
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A change of program: classical music performance in a time of war
Posted in article, philosophy, tagged Classical music performance, Daniil Trifonov, Furtwangler, Matthias Goerne, Music and war, Russian music, Ukraine on May 29, 2025| Leave a Comment »
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