I adore this recent trend (if that’s the right word) of letting an orchestra play classical music on a festival. It’s magical to see thousands of festival-goers going absolutely wild on Beethoven. Mosh/circlepits, crowd surfing. It’s wonderful to see the orchestra and the audience having the time of their lives.
They have to keep it on easy going Beethoven like Ode to Joy here to ensure a more docile response. They cant play In the Hall of the Mountain King cause they were already burning down venues when Grieg dropped that one back in 1875, today there would be a radioactive crater.
“this thing is rare and only affects 1% of the population” dude that’s 80 million people can you shut up
“this thing is so rare, if you put everyone it affects on an island it would be the 20th most populated country in the world, more than the UK, more than South Korea, and more than Canada AND Australia AND Tunisia all put together. we can literally forget about it that’s not many people”
it’s about autism and EDS and intersex variations and about trans people and also it’s about golden blood and it’s about blind people, it’s about screaming all day long and howling the night out that you exist even if you’re not everywhere, you’re small but your heart beats and your lungs pump air and they want you forgotten in the pages of a book they won’t read
