A new painting by the maestro of Trumpian kitsch offers a fever dream of musical unity \u2013 and fundamentally misunderstands orchestras and conductors. And where are the music stands?<\/p>\n
Events in the United States of Trumpland continue to reveal staggering new dimensions to the possibilities of orchestral music. Trump\u2019s announcement that his \u201cTrump Kennedy Center\u201d is to be shut for a refit<\/a> is a brilliantly cynical way to stop the noise when artists try to cancel their appearances during the rest of his presidential tenure: it\u2019s shut already! Bigly<\/a> losers, all of you!<\/p>\n But that\u2019s not the new dawn for the artform I\u2019m talking about. I mean the inspirational painting unveiled by the maestro of Trumpian kitsch, Jon McNaughton (and stamped with the presidential seal of approval \u2013 ie a post on Truth Social<\/a>).<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A new painting by the maestro of Trumpian kitsch offers a fever dream of musical unity \u2013 and fundamentally misunderstands orchestras and conductors. And where are the music stands? Events in the United States of Trumpland continue to reveal staggering new dimensions to the possibilities of orchestral music. Trump\u2019s announcement that his \u201cTrump Kennedy Center\u201d … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}