Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Still godless commies, lest we forget


The communist regime in China has reiterated its long-standing ban on performances of Western religious music, forcing Britain's Academy of Ancient Music to perform Handel's "Messiah" as an invitation-only event at the Beijing International Festival and the Sinfonica Orchestra di Roma to drop a performance of Mozart's Requiem as a benefit for victims of the Sichuan earthquake, Richard Spencer reports in The Daily Telegraph:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/3108810/China-bans-Western-religious-music.html