Most believe Toronto was wrong to fire Lisitsa
mainA sampling of informed opinion, taken by the Globe and Mail suggests that opinion as shifted massively against the Toronto Symphony for bowing to a minority lobby in dismissing an artist from its concerts.
The Toronto Star headlines its editorial: ‘TSO should not have dropped pianist Valentina Lisitsa‘.
Lisitsa, in an interview with the Kremlin-owned broadcaster, RT (below), says ‘I always separated music from politics… I was about to play Rachmaninoff concertos with the orchestra, not to preach politics.’
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