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Political Correctness That is Just Plain Stupid

http://www.houstonsymphony.org/ticket/production.aspx?id=668&src=t
from JoeUser Forums

The Houston Symphony is doing Handel's Messiah.  How many dont know what that is? OK, for those of you who do not, it is a symphony that was created in tribute to Jesus.  All the Atheist may now quit reading.

It was created in the 18th century by an Itinerant composer George Friedrich Handel to commemorate the Birth of Jesus (we can debate the date of his birth at a later date). And it is regularly performed around Christmas time.  My Wife and I just saw it a week ago.

Well, along comes the Houston Symphony that decides that, no it cant be a Christmas piece of music!  It is a Holiday piece of Music!

Both an awe-inspiring holiday tradition and a memorable religious experience, Handel's Messiah returns

this holiday season.  Guest conductor Christopher Seaman

leads Houston’s premier performance of Handel’s choral

masterwork, which includes the timeless Hallelujah Chorus.

If they are going to call it a "Holiday" tradition, maybe they should have changed the same to "Handel's Historic Figure".  And instead of The Hallelujah Chorus, how about "The Song where everyone stands"?

Geez!  PC can be really stupid some times!

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Reply #26 from JoeUser Forums Top

Well, along comes the Houston Symphony that decides that, no it cant be a Christmas piece of music!  It is a Holiday piece of Music! It is silly to engage in semantics over sacred terms. Actually "holiday" [holy day is more sanctified than "Christmas," which connotes commercialiam. Nonetheless, the dye has been cast and nonsense to continue dickering and bickering over tradition.

Reply #27 from JoeUser Forums Top

btw, the pointless incursion of holiday tree as opposed to Christmas tree is not going to stop people from going out to buy a Christmas tree.

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Reply #28 from JoeUser Forums Top
The key is not telling anyone else what to call their shiznitz. We don't like it when someone tells us what to call our tree, or what words to use in our songs. I'm not sure why we should be telling anyone else what to do...
Reply #29 from JoeUser Forums Top
The key is not telling anyone else what to call their shiznitz.


you really gotta write some hip hop stuff. you could change its entire direction.

. I'm not sure why we should be telling anyone else what to do...


and yet each of us has his or her own agenda when it comes to that kinda stuff.
Reply #30 from JoeUser Forums Top

btw, the pointless incursion of holiday tree as opposed to Christmas tree is not going to stop people from going out to buy a Christmas tree.

Or 2.