The February post with the most comments had a similar theme: Threads of Influence. The post began by noting Oxford University Press' new DEI policy:
Oxford University Press is committed to promoting and maintaining a culture of equality, diversity, and inclusion, and acting upon issues of diversity and inclusion is vitally important to fulfilling our mission. We recognize that many groups are currently under-represented in our music catalogue, and we are committed to changing and rapidly improving this through future publishing. As part of this commitment, we are currently accepting submissions from composers who:
• live with a disability; and/or
• are women; and/or
• identify on the broader spectrum of gender; and/or
• are from under-represented ethnic groups; and/or
• are from a lower socio-economic group
We encourage composers from these groups to submit their music for review.
My observation was that this is saying that no white males need apply. This caused a bit of discussion. One wonders how audiences would react to a similar policy with concert programming. No more white males would eliminate the vast majority of what people seem to want to hear. So I think that the whole DEI project is doomed to DIE in the very near future.
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