Woops that was a typo. I just meant comrades and those interested in classical music. I think most young people I know that are into classical music are radlibs, though I could have read them incorrectly. Older than 30 or so there may be a strong Trotskyist streak, especially if they payed attention during their music history classes. But it is hard to know from my vantage point.
No I don’t think it is causal by any means. It just seems that there is a strong intellectual legacy in the USA classical music scene of Trotskyism or Eurocommunism or something totally defanged
Yes, that I know personally. I’m glad that other comrades are also interested in classical music, though I don’t think I know any myself. There is some very interesting history in classical music leading up to and during the Cold War; I am planning on reading The Cultural Cold War by Frances Stonor Saunders soon, which I hope will go into depth about this. There were a lot of “communists” that I think were funded by the CIA through the Congress for Cultural Freedom. From what I have read Aaron Copland may have been closer to ML, though I don’t know the details—there’s a biography that I’d like to read at some point. Of the course the USSR seems to have had an incredible musical culture but for most it is flattened into Shostakovich alone. That is a deep dive I’d like to get into as well. But I might need to know Russian for that one lol.
Woops that was a typo. I just meant comrades and those interested in classical music. I think most young people I know that are into classical music are radlibs, though I could have read them incorrectly. Older than 30 or so there may be a strong Trotskyist streak, especially if they payed attention during their music history classes. But it is hard to know from my vantage point.
I’m quite young and I love classical music. I do hope I’m not a liberal…
No I don’t think it is causal by any means. It just seems that there is a strong intellectual legacy in the USA classical music scene of Trotskyism or Eurocommunism or something totally defanged
You mean, that you know personally? There are a lot of comrades that are interested in classical that are also communists.
Yes, that I know personally. I’m glad that other comrades are also interested in classical music, though I don’t think I know any myself. There is some very interesting history in classical music leading up to and during the Cold War; I am planning on reading The Cultural Cold War by Frances Stonor Saunders soon, which I hope will go into depth about this. There were a lot of “communists” that I think were funded by the CIA through the Congress for Cultural Freedom. From what I have read Aaron Copland may have been closer to ML, though I don’t know the details—there’s a biography that I’d like to read at some point. Of the course the USSR seems to have had an incredible musical culture but for most it is flattened into Shostakovich alone. That is a deep dive I’d like to get into as well. But I might need to know Russian for that one lol.
Same here.