A 9-year-old girl is suing a Berlin boys choir, arguing that her bid to join was only rejected because of her gender.
BERLIN — A 9-year-old girl is suing a centuries-old Berlin boys choir, arguing that her bid to join was only rejected because of her gender, in a case that has sparked debate over equal rights versus artistic freedom.
The choir contends the girl's rejection was"not predominantly about her gender" and she would have been asked to join if she had displayed extraordinary talent and motivation and"if her voice had matched the desired sound characteristics of a boys choir," the court said.
"But the timbre is different, and judging that should be left to the musicians and the musicologists," she wrote this week."Anyone who wants to enforce a misunderstood gender equality here sacrifices a cultural asset." Abbie Conant, an American trombonist who faced discrimination as a woman when she first started playing with the Munich Philharmonic in 1980, said that multiple studies show"even professional musicians cannot reliably hear the difference between a boys and a girls choir singing the same repertoire."
"Why would an enlightened society such as we have in Germany want to continue this kind of discriminatory tradition? Boys in cute little outfits with sweet, high voices are a pleasure, but so are girls with cute little outfits and sweet, high voices."
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