German YouTuber Rezo, an otherwise eloquent and well-informed commenter on political and social matters, has spectacularly failed at launching a general attack on music teaching, and on the academic subjects of music theory and musicology (which he also fails to distinguish). After that, his rant was debunked by my colleague Johannes Wolff in a most impressive manner, giving a compelling example of what contemporary music theory teaching is supposed to mean. His answer to Rezo is a must-watch!
NB: Rezo’s contribution was not an official video, but an improvised episode from a Twitch stream that was uploaded on YouTube by someone else, and taken down after Johannes’s reaction. However, the original material is still available here (starting at approx. 05:08:30).