Censorship After 911

A detailed Summary of Censorship After 911


After the bombing of the Twin Towers in New York City, a number of individuals in a variety of different academic and art fields became increasingly concerned about terrorism. In December of 2001, for example, the Boston Symphony Orchestra cancelled John Adams's ''Death of Klinghoffer'' choruses in deference to audience sensitivities about the opera's themes. There were those who were either in favor or against this decision. Richard Taruskin, who teaches and writes about music history at the University of California at Berkeley supported the cancellation.


He adds that he is not, by far, making up such thoughts about the opera: Does ''The Death of Klinghoffer'' romanticize the perpetrators of deadly violence toward the innocent? Its creators tacitly acknowledged that it did, when they revised the opera for American consumption after its European premieres in Brussels and Paris. In its original version, the opening 'Chorus of Exiled Palestinians' was followed not by a balancing 'Chorus of Exiled Jews' but by a scene, now dropped from the score, that showed the Klinghoffers' suburban neighbors gossiping merrily

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