New York City’s NPR affiliate has spent much of this week pandering. They incessantly remind us that February is Black History Month (hmmm. Who knew people with dark skin don’t exist in the same history as everyone else? Oh, well, I’m sure it’s a separate but equal history) and then broadcast music with some connection, however faint, to “Black History.” Emphasis on the “faint”: this station usually plays classical music, a venue dominated by white Europeans and by Asians. Yesterday, they subjected poor Scott Joplin to this insulting treatment, and right now it’s Beethoven, with Moonlight Sonata. No, Beethoven wasn’t … Continue reading Hard to Feel Sorry For a Concert Pianist, But I Do