Protests as rightwing radio host gets to conduct Santa Monica Symphony

Protests as rightwing radio host gets to conduct Santa Monica Symphony

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norman lebrecht

July 17, 2017

A petition is going around California calling on musicians to boycott a concert of the Santa Monica Symphony to be guest conducted next month by Dennis Prager, a radio host who is some way to the right of the spectrum.

Prager has been ‘enthusiastically’ invited by Santa Monica’s conductor Guido Lamell. He is not a trained conductor, say the musicians who are organising the petition, but that’s the least of their objections.

One of Prager’s recent epigrams is ‘The news media in the West pose a far greater danger to Western civilization than Russia does.’ He is a Trump-pumping motormouth.

Read the musicians’ protest here.

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