On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:16:57 +0100 (CET) =?iso-8859-1?q?Efr=E9n=20del=20Valle?= <efrendv@yahoo.es> wrote:
...was Beethoven black, as Anthony Braxton brilliantly asserts?
I don't see the brilliance in that assertion, personally.
I also thought Braxton was smarter!!
It's not Braxton's theory. And it was widely promulgated and perpetuated amongst certain factions of the classical music and African studies worlds not so long ago. Recent theory and scholarship continues to suggest that Beethoven was of a decidedly ruddy complexion, but that there is no genuine indication that Beethoven was in fact black... which didn't stop an announcer on L.A.'s KUSC-FM to rather notoriously refer to him once as a "noted Moorish composer." Steve Smith ssmith36@sprynet.com NP - Michael Torke, 'An American Abroad' - RSNO/Alsop (Naxos)