Klarinet Archive - Posting 000151.txt from 2005/11

From: "Joseph H. Fasel" <jhf@-----.gov>
Subj: RE: [kl] Conversion
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 15:04:37 -0500

Umm, if you mean J. S. Bach, he was a Lutheran.

--Joe

On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 11:06, dnleeson wrote:
> Montoya write: "We can say that VPO's performance of Mahler's
> "Titan" suggests some questions which eventually lead us to
> unresolvable questions about Mahler's religion."
>
> This is absolutely indefensible. Are you suggesting that a
> person's religious affiliation (not cultural affiliation) can be
> discerned through his music? Is Bach's music Catholic? Is
> Offenbach's "Tales of Hoffman" Jewish? Is John Cage's music
> Lutheran? Is Dixieland Jazz black in any racial sense?

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