DHS excludes revokes Mills College Prof and Elgar scholar visa.
Prof Ghuman, british musicologist, Berkeley PhD expelled from the US
I personally find Elgar to be a ponderous and rather tiresome, not to mention heavily abused at both the Proms and US graduations, but this seems a bit of an overreaction.
Land of Hope and Glory, or sheep?
At the very least Prof Ghuman, or her US host institution, should be given an account of the what the charges against her are, and, some hint of the proferred evidence.
...
Thine equal laws, by Freedom gained,
Have ruled thee well and long;
By Freedom gained, by Truth maintained,
Thine Empire shall be strong.
Land of Hope and Glory,
Mother of the Free,
How shall we extol thee...
(h/t kos)
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I hope they send her a new visa, and I hope she has the good sense to tear it into shreds. Personally, if I'd been treated like that, I wouldn't want to set foot on american soil again.
Pomp & Circumstance is undeniable tripe. (Next time you're at commencement, check the orchestra -- anyone poking his eyes out with a clarinet after the 5th D.C. al Coda?)
But Elgar's Cello Concerto is despairingly beautiful and moving, elegiac even, about the devastating cost of WW I. Try the Jacqueline du Pre version.
When I read the news about Iraq, or homeland security craziness (like barring music scholars), it helps to listen to the Concerto, as a testimony that others recognize war for madness, too.