Hate In The Horn Section: A Response to Berklee’s Hiring of Nicholas Payton
The World Has Gone Tone-Deaf When It Comes To Jews. It’s Getting Worse.
It would be easy enough to make this essay solely about Nicholas Payton, the newly appointed chair of the brass department at Berklee College of Music. An extraordinary trumpet player by all accounts — but also, by his own public and unapologetic admission, he has spread deeply anti-Jewish slander and obscene conspiracies, the kind that have incited cen…