Posted by Orin Kerr:
"Chords of Revolution":
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2005_05_01-2005_05_07.shtml#1115163324
The latest [1]Harvard Magazine has a rather unsusual profile of Fred
Ho, Harvard Class of 1979. Ho a Marxist baritone saxophonist who likes
to spend his time naked and recently helped train security forces for
the newly installed king of Cambodia.
My favorite part of the profile was the juxtaposition of the
following two paragraphs. This one appears near the top of the
article:
Ho is an uncompromising Marxist. He currently believes that the
capitalist patriarchy should be replaced with its opposite�a
matriarchy�as a necessary transition stage toward true communism.
His music and radical politics, both discovered by the age of 14,
are inseparable and dominate his life. "All music is political," he
explains, "whether the artist is conscious of it or not. I
subscribe to the interpenetration of ideas and material life. I
talk the walk."
And this one appears near the bottom:
Ho earns a moderate living making music because he has only
himself to support and because he is a well-organized businessman
who competes in the open market for arts funding, frequently
winning awards, commissions, and artist-in-residence positions at
schools or art colonies. (He recently returned from working with
musicians in Alaska as part of the CrossSound Festival.) He cannot
apply for grants because his company, Big Red Media Inc., is a
for-profit venture.
I can only imagine his personal statement.
References
1. http://www.harvard-magazine.com/on-line/050562.html
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