Ukraine musicians say rector has ‘no moral right’ to conduct Mozart’s Requiem

Ukraine musicians say rector has ‘no moral right’ to conduct Mozart’s Requiem

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norman lebrecht

March 17, 2014

A row has erupted in Lviv over plans to perform Mozart’s Requiem in memory of those who died in the country’s popular uprising.

Musicians have circulated a protest, saying that the rector of the Lviv conservatoire, Ihor Pylatyuk, was a close political associate of the deposed ruler Victor Yanyukovich and was unfit to lead a commemoration to the demonstrators who died at the hands of his regime. Link here (in Ukrainian, with Google translate).

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