![]() Critics dismissed the music as simplistic, primitive and worthless, while ideologues like Dr. ![]() But one difference is that since it was recognized as a genre in the early 1970s, heavy metal has not been whitewashed for consumption in respectable concert halls (with the exception of Metallica’s 1999 concerts with the San Francisco Symphony), but rather reviled and vilified by critics and conservative self-appointed guardians of culture. Not much has changed in the last few centuries. ![]() In an article titled “Facing Up, Finally, to Bach’s Dark Vision,” musicologist Richard Taruskin pointed out the 200 year-long program of sanitizing the essence of Bach to fit within the bourgeoise Christian culture’s limited idea of “high culture.” But if one actually pays attention to the text in Bach’s Cantatas, it’s clear that Bach revealed bitter truths that the world is filth and horror, that humans are helpless, that life is pain, that reason is a snare.
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