@findingnewo: I stand with Omar Thomas & the Watertown Wind Symphony. This rhetoric should never be normalized. Because I just found this out 5 minutes before filming this, some clarifications: Shostakovich actually wasn’t “sucking up” to Stalin, that was poor word choice on my part. He was actually composing under genuine threat of arrest after the 1936 Pravda attack on Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. Wagner died in 1883, a few years before that one German guy was born, so that same German guy didn’t pressure him directly. The regime appropriated Wagner posthumously more like a cultural mascot. As the regime rose to power, they labeled certain composers’ work as “degenerate” music/unfit for German audiences. #music #musicians #musician #fyp #foryo
i played this piece in band in high school my senior year, 2023. we're going downhill so fast omg
2026-05-14 00:04:09
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Zoey :
that piece is one of my favorites. thank you for speaking out about this!
2026-05-14 00:37:39
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fdillllll11 :
We read The 57 Bus when I was a senior in high school (2019) in small town WI and ohhh the OUTRAGE. The deacon wrote a letter and put it in the newspaper, facebook was going crazy, anddddd then the board decided to remove it for the following year’s ESR reading list.
2026-05-14 01:49:34
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Michelle Leonard :
#watertownhighschool wind symphony protest
2026-05-14 14:32:16
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maddsingz :
I go to that school, I spoke against it at the board meeting and I am beyond disappointed
2026-05-14 00:11:18
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willow :
it’s not wisconsin, it’s in upstate new york. by canadian border
2026-05-14 02:30:54
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Joel_AD24 :
All they have to do is a PETITION and get enough signatures to have the school board members removed. It is called a recall election.