Can Valentina Lisitsa bounce back?
mainThe dominant Youtube pianist, an outspoken pro-Kremlin activist in the Ukraine conflict, has published a video titled ‘To Donbass with Love’. An English translation is added for worldwide fans.
Donbass is the part of eastern Ukraine that is torn by civil war between Putin-backed secessionists and Ukraine loyalists.
Valentina has nailed her colours to the mast.
….and it starts with that horribly unmusical performance of Beethoven’s Moonlight. Why is she doing this, why Valentina, why? Has she lost her mind?
for Valentina Lisitsa performance review refer to Hitler’s & Putin’s muses http://upnorth.eu/twisted-muses-hitlers-and-putins-pianists/ and Nazi vitriol http://www.examiner.com/list/valentina-lisitsa-s-vitriol-nazi-rhetoric-or-music-to-your-ears
For the benefit of those of us who must have obviously missed it, could you cite the interview or announcement where Putin actually ‘backed’ the secessionists? I was under the impression that this had not happened.
Come on, do you really want to tell us they got their anti-aircraft artillery systems and other stuff from some extraterrestrian allies?
Not taking sides ? Spare us…..
Her colours have been “nailed to the mast” for a very long time. Only her slavish devotees refused to see it.
What a carefully staged interview -even the russian muzhik must laugh at this .
BS piled higher and deeper with every blink of those matryoshka doll eyes .
Who said she ever fell? Norman, don’t succumb to the thought that as a critic you have the power to both make or break a performer.
He doesn’t have to. She is doing herself in.
I find it interesting that nobody speculates about whether Valerie Gergiev has “done himself in” for his pro-Putin stance. What makes Lisitsa (who is not really “pro-Putin” at all, by the way) such a fragile figure in the eyes of so many?
And for more information about Lisitsa’s recent adventures in Toronto … http://www.colineatock.com/eatock-daily-blog/interview-with-valentina-lisitsa
Valentina comes across as a passionate and informed person. She has brought much joy and intelligence to her performances and is a generous spirit. The contentious issue is not important to her career and brilliance as a musician, Valentina is a citizen of the world and we are lucky to have her.
well said !
Agreed.
Amen to that!
Censorship under any guise is still censorship ain’t that so Mr. Lebrecht ?????
Having heard her play I’m not surprised by her inane views, she is dreadful.
There is nothing in Lisitsa’s message that is Pro-Kremlin, as you classify her. She never speaks of Russia, she never speaks of Kremlin, she never posts anything to actively or proactively support Russia’s position in the conflict.
What she does say is that she is against the current regime in Ukraine, against Poroshenko, and the state of affairs and policies in what is her own country.
Don’t commit the journalistic propagandistic faux pas of calling her PRO KREMLIN. She is most definitely not.