[net-gold] MUSIC: CLASSICAL: MUSIC : INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND DIPLOMACY: DOCUMENTS : UNITED STATES: GOVERNMENT: Cultural Exchange: The Diplomatic View of Classical Music
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- Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 17:02:49 -0400 (EDT)
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MUSIC: CLASSICAL MUSIC :
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND DIPLOMACY: DOCUMENTS :
UNITED STATES: GOVERNMENT:
Cultural Exchange: The Diplomatic View of Classical Music
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Cultural Exchange: The Diplomatic View of Classical Music
State Department cables released by WikiLeaks offer sometimes-vivid
glimpses into cultural diplomacy involving musical performances abroad.
By Marcia Adair,
Los Angeles Times
September 18, 2011
http://www.latimes.com/la-ca-cultural-exchange-20110918,0,3535317.story
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Two recent and seemingly unrelated events, the release of 250,000
unredacted State Department cables written between 1966 and 2011 via
WikiLeaks and the pro-Palestinian protests at the Israel Philharmonic
concert in London, got us thinking: How closely entwined are politics and
classical music in diplomatic circles?
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A few weeks ago WikiLeaks published cables sent by American diplomats who
were reporting back to the government on events and people of interest to
the United States. The reports are incredibly detailed (we can now confirm
that, yes, the president of Turkmenistan did get two extra pineapples on
his fruit plate in 1997), which can make for a tedious read.
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Put a few classical music keywords in the search box, however, and
nuclear-weapon panic gives way to the curious mixture of social chess,
pageantry theater and "Fawlty Towers" that is cultural diplomacy.
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If the reporting diplomat happens to be a good writer, the extra detail
creates a vivid and at times extremely entertaining picture.
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Classical music is mentioned most often when the diplomat is discussing an
individual's openness to Western culture, his level of sophistication and
the cultural health of a region in transition.
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It is surprising to discover how classical music performances are used to
introduce foreign audiences to American culture. An explanation comes from
pianist Michael Sheppard, who won a classical fellowship with the American
Pianists Assn. in 2003. The prize included a State Department-sponsored
tour of Sri Lanka, Bahrain and Syria, which led to Sheppard's name showing
up in a cable.
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"The State Department probably uses classical music because there aren't
words attached it," he said. "It's hard to be inflammatory when you're
just playing piano pieces."
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Topics Covered in This Article
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Musician in high-ranking post, Belmopan, Belize, 2008
Why we do cultural diplomacy, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2003
Classical win, Kuwait, 2004
Universal language, the Vatican, 2004
Everyone's a critic, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, 2008
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
jwne@xxxxxxxxxx
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