When gender equality rings false

In Sweden, gender advocacy has become both a key to success in the state-sponsored music world and an effective method for getting media attention. But who reaps the benefits when a relatively apolitical art form is confronted by an ideology that views art as a tool for societal change? Pianist and arts and culture writer Martin Malmgren examines the head of the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Fredrik Österling, and his acclaimed mini-opera Makten och Härligheten (The Power and the Glory) about the Swedish Academy. Mr. Malmgren asks the question how a country can avoid a situation in which the prevailing zeitgeist is exploited for self-serving purposes.