Anti-capitalist opera to receive US premiere
mainComposer Eugene Birman had the intended premiere of his opera, State of the Union, cancelled by a conductor at Latvian Radio on the grounds that it was too hostile to free market economics.
‘I am an ex-Soviet soldier,’ said the conductor. ‘I am truly thankful for the life that I can have now in comparison to 30 years ago, and I am sick of leftist nostalgia.’
The opera will be performed tonight in Marquette, Michigan, moving on to New York, where it will play at Trinity Church, off Wall Street.
That’s freedom for you.
Report here.
Great conductor – would like to hear more of him!
Here is some leftwing nostaliga:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqVdcW9LwYo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxZhjqYFjmE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2paj1mrCQI
Ah…. those romantic sixties….!!
I posted some links to the nostalgic, sixties leftwing works of Birman, but this seems to have been considered unworthy of SD.
Well, it has been corrected.
…. and again it has disappeared.
…. and again restored. That is what you get with sixties stuff.