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Being homosexual isn't some great accomplishment that you achieve through years of hard work. It's not a talent you must cultivate with five hours of practice a day, like ice skating or violin playing. It's an identity, nothing more. If we're going to celebrate random identities, we shouldn't discriminate. I propose People With Black Hair Day, Freckled People's Week and Left-Handed Pride Month, for starters...
...need any hypocritical notions of wishing for world peace or playing the violin in these two beauty contests--a headshot will do nicely...
Still, the program offered something educational even to the well-rounded listener. Metamorphosen played Grieg's Holberg Suite, Haydn's C. Major Violin Concerto with ChoLiang Lin, Ellen Zwilich's Prologue and Variations and Frank Martin's Petite Symphonie Concertante...
...pizzacati remarkably in unison for close to the entire Adagio. Lin's treatment of the cadenza appeared to mention Schumann's Fourth Symphony, though it might have come unconsciously. He and Yoo then led the orchestra jovially through the Presto. The Haydn, though not the flashiest work written for violin and orchestra, benefited immensely from Lin's thoughtful and decorous performance...
Nero played his violin as Rome burned. Raftless men smoked pipes as the Titanic sunk. And Woody Allen took to wearing hats as his marriage with Mia Farrow deteriorated...