"Grenell also wrote: “Your people also booed and harassed the vice president Vance
who simply wanted to enjoy music
with his wife for a night. Who is the intolerant one?”
Last month, an audience booed JD Vance and his wife, Usha, as they took their seats
at the center’s National Symphony Orchestra concert in response to Vance and his allies’ attacks on alleged “improper ideology”
at Washington’s cultural institutions."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/kennedy-center-richard-grenell-yasmin-williams
"Music in Nazi Germany,
like all cultural activities in the regime, was controlled and "co-ordinated".
(Gleichschaltung) by various entities of the state and the Nazi Party, with Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels and the prominent Nazi theorist Alfred Rosenberg playing leading – and competing – roles. .
The primary concerns of these organizations was to exclude Jewish (woke) composers and musicians from publishing and performing music,
and to prevent the public exhibition of music considered to be "Jewish", "anti-German", or otherwise "degenerate", while at the same time promoting the work of favored "Germanic" composers,
such as Richard Wagner, Ludwig van Beethoven and Anton Bruckner. These works were believed to be positive contributions to the Volksgemeinschaft, or German folk community."
'The Nazis promoted Aryan ideologies through heavy censorship and cultural control,
blacklisting Jewish compositions, banning specific concert hall performances,
and controlling radio content in order to promote nationalism through cultural unity. .
By controlling the mediums of communication, the Reich Chamber of Culture was able to dictate public opinion
in regards to musical culture, and reaffirm their hegemonic beliefs"
When Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party took power in Germany, it stepped in to control these cultural music products as part of its general policy of Gleichschaltung or "co-ordination".
They wanted neither a simple return to nineteenth-century Romanticism nor a continuation of Weimar avant-garde but also no experimentation
As with most other aspects of the governance of the Third Reich, the personal views and preferences of Adolf Drumpf Hitler played a significant role in the Nazi control of music.
Don Hitler's normal modus operandi was to create overlapping and competing agencies within both the Nazi Party and the German state apparatus, and allow the heads of those agencies to "work toward the Führer".
Hitler would either make his preferences known, or, if he did not, the agency leaders would make assumptions about what they were, and then – usually without specific orders or guidance from Hitler – they would gear their decisions to what they believed he wanted.
The overlapping of the various competencies would often lead to conflicts, cat fights,
which would then be brought to Hitler for ultimate settlement.
Hitler, however, did not like to make these decisions, and often let the situations fester
for long periods before he either made a snap decision, or one choice had become the most obvious one to seleck."
"after the creation of the Reich Chamber of Culture, Goebbels had the upper hand "
Just as Vance claps, salutes simultaneously, maga.
In regard to music, Hitler had definite views as to what was acceptable and what was not. He was passionate about the music of Richard Wagner, but
denounced most contemporary music – which featured atonality, dissonance, and disturbing rhythms
in many cases influenced by what Hitler referred to as "nigger jazz" –.
as being "degenerate" (see below) and elitist.
Soon after Hitler became Chancellor in 1933, contemporary music concerts, as well as Modernist and Expressionist scenic design and staging of operas were cancelled, "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_in_Nazi_Germany
"Ziegler positioned the show as presenting examples of Cultural Bolshevism, saying at the opening ceremony:
'What's been gathered together in [this] exhibition constitutes the portrayal of a true witches' sabbath
and the most frivolous spiritual-artistic cultural bolshevism and a portrayal of the triumph of subhumanity,
of arrogant Jewish insolence and total spiritual senile dementia.'
Booths had been installed where attendees could listen to specially made records with excerpts of "Degenerate Music".
However, long lines at the booth for Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera showed that not all of the music presented at the exhibition was disliked by the public."
"works of Hungarian modernist composer Béla Bartók were not banned, because Hungary was Germany's ally – even though Bartók himself was anti-Fascist.
When his publisher was Aryanized, he switch to another one, he declared solidarity with banned composers,
and protested when his music was not included in the "Degenerate Music" Exhibition"
____
Grenell, a former acting director of national intelligence whom Trump appointed
to oversee the center after making himself the chair,
responded with a series of messages, accusing Williams of believing “newspapers who exist to hate Republicans”.
'Yes, I cut the DEl bullshit because we can’t afford to pay people for fringe and niche programming
that the public won’t support … Yes, we are doing programming for the masses in order to pay our bills.
No, the into[l]erants who left help us. .
They were the most intolerant people you’ve ever met.
They couldn’t play a show if Nazi Republicans were present. That’s weird."
The intolerants.
___
"Trump’s takeover of the prestigious institution in February triggered widespread criticism throughout the performing arts industry as well as the public.
Issa Rae, creator and star of Insecure, canceled her
one-night-only sold-out show
scheduled for March while the Scandal and Grey’s Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes resigned as the center’s treasurer.
The soprano singer Reneé Fleming
announced her departure last month as artistic adviser to the center while the singer-songwriter
Ben Folds stepped down as artistic adviser to the National Symphony Orchestra."
____
Meyers sent an email to all personnel at Pituffik on 31 March “seemingly aimed at
generating unity among the airmen and guardians, as well as the Canadians, Danes and Greenlanders
who work there,
following Vance’s appearance”.
The vice-president said during a press conference at the base:
“Our message to Denmark is very simple: you have not done a good job by the people of Greenland. You have underinvested in the people of Greenland and you have .
underinvested in the security architecture of
this incredible, beautiful land mass.”
**"
Head of US military base in Greenland fired after JD Vance visit
Col Susannah Meyers removed amid reports she distanced base from Vance’s criticism of Denmark’s oversight of territory
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/col-susannah-meyers-head-of-us-military-base-greenland-fired-after-jd-vance-visit
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