The Meaning of Moral Mondays?

After listening to WCPE for a large part of the afternoon, I realized again that Beethoven, the way it is performed by symphony orchestras, does not swing.  It widely is understood that Bach swings.  His intricate counterpoint in its Baroque style with figured bass implies the structures of jazz.  Chord symbols and improvised lines.  I am positive if we could travel back in time Herr Mozart and Mr. Beethoven could and would understand the concept of swing.  The scale degree of the major seventh is sprinkled in much classical musical literature.  Beethoven was pushing the boundaries of classical music forging the way for Romanticism.  WCPE plays a lot of classical music, mainly because it calls itself the "Classical Station."  Like the term "pop," "classical" is a misnomer.  We use it to describe European-based concert music written mostly for and in court.  It is highly intelligent, sophisticated, elegant, and expressive.  These adjectives could be metaphors for court.  On the fringes of court was the common man a metaphor for which could be the Theater of the Absurd.  Court although intelligent could be a bit stuffy.  There is pageantry, protocol, and subservience.  It is a highly structured power entity that ruled the land with a firm hand.  Classical music existed in this realm leaving peasants to seek musical fulfillment in their own "folk" styles, folk also be a metaphor for poor.  Court had no want for riches and thus money.  Concert halls, instruments, and skilled players abounded taking advantage of the patronage of wealthy aristocrats.  The music reflects this aesthetic, and while I enjoy its refuge its inherent stiffness will not allow it to complete my own musical, emotional, and philosophical desires.  While I have heard symphony orchestras swing, there are those who simply do not understand the looseness that is required for a musical performance to swing.  Swing kinesthesia runs the gamut, and viewing actual performances of jazz musicians presents a wide pallet of physical movement.  I have learned while playing and studying the trumpet over the years that less movement actually is better.  While you may internalize time, rhythm, and feel through and with your body, trumpet technique requires a tight and disciplined embouchure centering around the mouth.  Many discreet muscle groups are involved including the neck and diaphragm.  Like the book "The Inner Game of Tennis" suggests, if one understand the goal, the outcome, one's brain and instincts can produce the result almost unconsciously.  This is the goal in art, that years of study, talent, and a need to communicate will at some point merge and allow the artists to create seamlessly and without hindrance.  With that said the swing style demands more than classical style.  Perhaps it is more accurate to say that a classical style infused with expression and feeling is capable of the same thing as swing.  In either case feeling, human emotion and connection is necessary.  When I hear performances of Beethoven on WCPE that do not swing, they remind me of "Industrial Music," music that is meant to be used as a commodity.  Industrial music is music that is played in stores, terminals, and manufacturing plants.  Like many styles of American music it has disappeared.  The most common style of industrial music, although a style meant to achieve something completely different, is MUSAK or elevator music.  The difference is industrial music is aggressive and invigorating, and MUSAK is calming and relaxing.  American society today does not champion calm and relaxation.  First if the populace embraced calm and relaxation as a lifestyle, we could not survive the brutality of reality.  We would be slaughtered by wolves.  I am remembering this, because twelve years of working on cruise ships contradicts this precept.  We are brainwashed to spoil the guests.  Life in America drastically is different than life on a cruise ship, and it has taken me almost five years to remember how to live in America.  That aside, it almost is humorous to me to listen to an entire afternoon of classical music that does not swing.  It is like modern American pop music, a stiff and repetitive rhythmic style that discards the need to feel a phrase of music.  It is old school porno music without the sensuality.  Knowing this helps me understand how swing developed, although personally I never have related jazz music to sex.  To me they are polar opposites but not necessarily exclusionary.  If one has experienced Miles Davis and what his music represents, then one can understand my point.  Miles' music was not about sexuality.  It was about civil rights.  There is a seriousness in the music of Miles Davis that is unparalleled in the jazz world.  It can be related to "Third Stream," a music aesthetic championed by Gunther Schueller which combined the seriousness of concert music with the expressivity of jazz.  When talking about swing music or jazz, and easy line of demarcation can be drawn between "Early" jazz or New Orleans styled jazz and later forms of big band oriented swing which relied upon "Straight Four" rhythm.  Early jazz often was played in two or as a two beat rhythm, while later swing relied upon straight four.  Early jazz also could be considered to be music for entertainment most commonly heard in houses of ill repute serving liquor and drugs and offering easy casual sexual encounters.  That works for me, but as fascist regimes realized that kind of freedom is not recognized by communist lifestyles.  Adolph Hitler called jazz devil music and understood allowing the populace to be empowered by pleasure would undermine his ruling power.  We are at a similar point today.  Jazz has all but disappeared, and certainly romantic sensuality is absent from American society.  Instead we have violence, racism, and the LGBT movement.  For a moment I must digress and disagree with this "movement."  Why would a group feel they are entitled to special treatment from government and society for choosing to have sex with members of their own gender?  Heterosexuals do not demand such a thing.  Sexuality is a private issue and demanding special treatment because of what commonly is recognized as aberrant behavior is neurotic.  It, like most things present in America today, is chaotic.  It is exclusionary, divisive, and selfish.  No one cares of you are LGBT, just keep it to yourself.  The LGBT community deserves no more recognition than the heterosexual community.  If it's acceptance they want, join the club.  The United States military, because of President Obama's reversal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" no longer represents  the same things in American history.  It is a cloaked debauchery of paranoid, insecure, homosexual tendencies championed by gay generals.  At least some of that exists within the military's structure.  It is an internal war thrust upon unknowing straight soldiers much like life on cruise ships.  It is a closed environment exploited by predatory homosexuals, a virtual salad bar of available cock.  I would rather not think about that possibility, but having experienced this first hand numerous times it is plausible.  In my few years living back in America, I am coming to distrust everyone, as we all should.  That is Capitalism.