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One of the greatest and most important artists of the 20th century, Karlheinz Stockhausen, thinks that 9/11 is the greatest work of art of all time.
>Karlheinz Stockhausen, whose shocking remarks at a press conference at a music festival in Hamburg six days after the attacks made headlines. The events of 9/11, he’d enthused, were “the greatest work of art imaginable for the whole cosmos.” Things had gone from bad to worse to incendiary when, like Batman’s Joker, he warmed to his theme: “Minds achieving something in an act that we couldn’t even dream of in music, people rehearsing like mad for ten years, preparing fanatically for a concert, and then dying; just imagine what happened there. You have people who are that focused on a performance and then 5,000 people are dispatched to the afterlife, in a single moment. I couldn’t do that. By comparison, we composers are nothing.”
Do you agree with him?
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Children in Syria have been tortured, maimed and sexually abused by Bashar al-Assad's forces and recruited for combat by the rebels fighting to topple him during the country's conflict of almost three years, a new UN report says.
The report, which highlights the treatment of children in the conflict from the beginning of the uprising against the president in March 2011 until 15 November 2013, was released this week to the security council and posted on the UN website on Tuesday.
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It's a very bold comparison and took balls to say.
The same goes for any of the historical tragedies humans have experienced.
What sets 9/11 apart from other tragedies?
Nothing really, which makes me wonder why he chose 9/11 to compare with the art of musical composition.
My conclusion is he hates America for reasons unrelated to music or 9/11 and is using this opportunity to convey his opinion on a public scale.
Virtue signalling of sorts.
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>>2452588
the majority of his fervent critics have to reconcile their emotional reaction with the fact that they probably believe the victims went to heaven, proving him right
even if you believe the Third Reich was an atrocity committed by monsters, if you don't think it was spectacularly crafted you simply haven't studied it enough
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I think he's a fucking mentally ill literally-who, and being considered one of the "most important artists of the 20th century" is practically a guarantee that you are a snake oil salesman.
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>>2452588
>of all time.
"All time" is quite a long time.
9/11, particularly the image of the two burning towers, is powerful, the planning and execution does was very sophisticated, and it had quite an impact,
but so did many more other purposefully created events in the thousands of years of human history, and more importantly, so will many future events. Just think of terrorists stealing a nuke. Oh, the possibilities!
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>>2452588
>One of the greatest and most important artists of the 20th century
>Stockhausen
"no"
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>greatest artist
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