Stop Calling Famous Composers by Their Last Names

As we usher wider arrays of composers into our concerts and classrooms, this dual approach only exacerbates the exclusionary practices that suppressed nonwhite and nonmale composers in the first place. When we say, “Tonight, you’ll be hearing symphonies by Brahms and Edmond Dédé,” we’re linguistically treating the former as being on a different plane than the latter, a difference originally created by centuries of systematic prejudice, exclusion, sexism, and racism.

Musicians, academics, and teachers have a lot of work ahead to confront the racist and sexist history of classical music. Fullnaming composers, especially those who have been elevated to mononymic status by this complicated history, will challenge us to at the very least afford the same respect to all of the individuals whose music we talk and write about.

Hey ! You were cool 20 years ago. What happened?

What rubbish Beethoven is Beethoven. There was only one. Robert Schumann and Clara Schumann are referred to as such because they were both accomplished composers

Steve_Sailer Vermeullarmine, icymi.

Needs more 808s

Dumbasses everywhere

WTF lol

“Want to see less racism in pop music? Stop calling Beyoncé, Madonna, and Elvis by just one name. “ Sounds kinda stupid, doesn’t it?

We want we should call him Ludwig

Oddly, racism and sexism in classical music is not high on my priority list.

Whatever.

Wtf es música, la música rompe barreras de cualquier género, raza. Etc..y aparte,le voy a empezar a decir Ludwing, quien chch va a saber de quién hablo de Ludwig el compositor? Ludwig Mies el arquitecto? ... no sean giles

My god what isn’t racist and sexist now, and what a breaking critical story

There’s literally no point to this

When you’re legendary enough, you become a one-name artist regardless of color: Coltrane, Gillespie, Stevie, McCartney & Lennon; Holland, Dozier, Holland; Picasso, Pollack. Fine, fullname them all when sharing a program. Who cares about this?

You need to open a bottle of Democrat Champagne to fully enjoy this article

Then I will never ever ever do it

Yeah...use commonsense and be less politically correct .

Wtf

Very nice piece, White.

Classical music has REAL issues, such as orchestras' continuing existence being under serious threat from COVID-19 keeping audiences away. Instead, the writer trots out a silly non-issue during a worsening pandemic. Tsk, tsk.

benshapiro your going to love this 😉

wow, this is definitely the issue of our times

Lol

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