i'm usually at least mildly familiar with the works being performed at the dso, but i'd never heard of carl orff before, so i looked him up this afternoon.

ummm.

i just don't really like wagner, i find him kind of bloated, so i don't normally have to have this debate. i guess i need to have it now, though.

i think it depends. i'd obviously rather not listen to or support nazis, as a general principle, although it's somewhat of a disingenuous argument - while orff may or may not have been a nazi, i'm pretty sure the dso isn't run by a secret nazi cabal or something. i would not be materially supporting nazism in any substantive way by going to see this, which appears to be a kind of christian hymnal that happened to be first performed in the geopolitical space of nazi germany, and was popular amongst nazis, as the contemporary thing that was happening.

but, it's a christian piece, it's not war propaganda. if anything, it's a reminder of the central role that christianity played in the nazi state. more concerning is the rendition of midsummer night's dream that he wrote that was composed to replace mendelssohn's - which had been banned. sadly.

i find wagner bloated, and i don't generally like vocally-driven classical music, but i do have an interest in the kind of apocalyptic banger that starts the piece off. i don't understand what they're saying, but i wish that it maintained that level of intensity throughout the piece. it doesn't.

i'm going to let it finish, but i think i'll skip this one, for all of these reasons.