When buying tickets for a classical music concert based on the lost words of nature, parents may have expected a simple, poetic celebration of bluebells, conkers, and otters.
Families who attended the BBC Proms this weekend were instead confronted with catastrophic warnings from climate change campaigners.
BBC Proms, a celebration of classical music intended to be non-political, opened its 49th Prom of the season with a new composition based on the words of Greta Thunberg warning: “We are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction.”
Intended as a “unique event for all the family” and including painting, poetry, dancing, and birdsong, the concert was based on the illustrated book The Lost Words, which aims to revive little-used or disappearing words that describe the natural world.
A spokesman for the BBC said the Proms team believed music should “amplify discussion”, saying it should “react to the times in which we live” so that it is “not divorced from reality”.
Ivan Hewett, a Telegraph reviewer, said the concert was instead a“statement of the most extreme form of eco-catastrophism, designed to terrify and intimidate the mostly young audience, who clearly lacked the maturity to challenge it”.
“It’s unfortunate that the supposedly impartial BBC turned a promising event into an opportunity for eco-propaganda,” he said, in a two-star review, accusing the BBC of the “blatant politicizing of an event aimed at children.”
From start to finish, the #LostWordsProm was both audibly and visually beautiful 🍃#BBCProms pic.twitter.com/q9fXjzhgkU
— BBC Proms (@bbcproms) August 25, 2019
The concert opened with the voice of Miss Thunberg, who has become the face of youth climate change activism, on a loop with excerpts from her speech to the EU Parliament in Strasbourg declaring: “You need to listen to us, we who cannot vote. What we are doing now can soon no longer be undone.”
Robert Macfarlane, the author of The Lost Words, said he was “so thrilled” when he heard Miss Thunberg’s words would be used in the Prom, praising her “voice ringing with force and need and urgency but also breaking” and calling her a “figurehead” for the young.
Read rest at The Telegraph
Utterly disgraceful of the BBC to include the climate scam in a musical event.
Absolutely correct, the indoctrination of children into a scaremongering scam is an utter disgrace!
Thanks Stan. I had already complained to the BBC about having a child lecture adults about climate change in Eastenders (and actually had a reply!), and I’ve just sent another complaint email about this.
Not, sadly a surprise. The BBC is now blatantly propagandist. Hence a new book by a former executive and contributor for 25 years in his book “The Noble Liar”. It seems to be run by London Lefties dedicated to the nes religion of PC. For this they now want to charge the elderly to watch and listen. Disgusting.
BBC child abuse concerts is what they are . The UK sanctions 10’s of thousands of fuel poverty deaths every year based on a fraud with the BBC acting as chief organ grinder .
No wonder so many young people want to get the hell away from England .
Talk about Brain Washing if they were not already brainwashing kids with junk like Captain Planet and the Planeteers or Network Earth and One Child One Voice now their using Concerts to do it Joe Gobbels would love this stuff
You don’t think China just loves this BBC climate cluster F ?
Well at least we don’t have to see the aco -anarchists blow up the heads of school kids that refuse to drink the cool aid .
So mature .