{"id":1449,"date":"2007-06-12T16:54:49","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T16:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2007-06-12T16:57:39","modified_gmt":"2007-06-12T16:57:39","slug":"the_september_c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1449","title":{"rendered":"The September Concert Series at Theresienstadt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll have to confess that I&#8217;m gobsmacked by the reaction to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windsofchange.net\/archives\/009674.php\" target=\"browser\">my piece below on the LA Times story on North Korea<\/a>. People seem to think that it&#8217;s just no big deal.<\/p>\n<p>I commented:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Why? Because to have walked through Belsen in 1944 and noted the concerts, the &#8220;children happily singing&#8221; or the &#8220;carefully tended gardens&#8221; with giving a side note to the unmitigated evil of the place may in fact be technically accurate reporting &#8211; possibly the weren&#8217;t burning people that day &#8211; but is, as I put it, vile.<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd the willingness to cover one&#8217;s nose to hide the stench of the dead while commenting on the charm of a Starbucks-free existence seems, sadly all to common in the world of the modern tourist.<\/p>\n<p>\nI find my sense of smell a little to sensitive to make that work for me.<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd before you suggest that Guantanamo or Abu Ghreib are as bad as North Korea &#8211; no they&#8217;re not. We put people in jail when they are caught doing things like that. In North Korea, they get extra rations.<\/p>\n<p>\nA.L.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Look, let me put it another way that might make things clearer.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"E8503-small.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.windsofchange.net\/E8503-small.JPG\" width=\"480\" height=\"545\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is a music program for September 1943 at the Theresienstadt concentration camp.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an impressive collection of music.<\/p>\n<p>Can you, for a moment, imagine the LA Times music critic attending a concert there, coming back,and talking about the music as though he was watching a concert at Lincoln Center?<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, I can imagine it, because I see people doing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armed Liberal looks at a concert program and asks a question about the media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}