Igor Levit joins attack on racist ECHO award

Igor Levit joins attack on racist ECHO award

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norman lebrecht

April 17, 2018

The German pianist has come out in support of the Notos Quartet, who gave back their 2017 Echo prize after the 2018 award went to a pair of rappers with an Auschwitz line. Igor has returned the ECHO he received in 2014.

He tweets: ‘It is unbearable that antisemitic slogans are heard on such a platform and an award. It is impossible for me to keep the Echo Klassik, which I received with great pride in 2014.’

 

Comments

  • Wolfgang Schaufler says:

    Bravo! ECHO is dead and smells ugly …

    • universal-edition-lover says:

      Dear Wolfgang, do you really want to see ECHO dead ? Never heard such a strange comment by you. i don’t – we need such events to represent the classical music world for society. But in any case the award to those Rapper/Gangsters was a wrong desicison and there should be some reaction against those stupid antisemitic comments.

    • Sue says:

      I read “bravo echo” and thought it was the NATO phonetic alphabet!!

  • Caravaggio says:

    Bravo to Herr Levit

  • Suzanne says:

    Conductor Enoch zu Guttenberg just gave his prize (2008) back, every few hours a new artist announces the same. The ECHO has succeeded in making itself worthless, a pariah in the world of music prizes.

  • Wolfgang Schaufler says:

    Frank Zappa: “Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny” … ECHO is different 😉

  • Schwalbe Hochküst says:

    Mr. Levit is against antisemitism, but applaudiert unlimited influx of migrants from the most antisemitic parts of the world. Well. Give with one hand, take with the other.

  • esfir ross says:

    My comment about Igor Levitt do anything to get publicity and being a hypocrite was deleted. Why?

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