The composer that Stalin exiled for being gay
mainFrom the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
There were those that Stalin murdered or suppressed, those who went abroad and the few who stayed at home and kept very quiet for most of their lives. I thought I knew them all, but the New York pianist Vladimir Feltsman has put together a gallery of Soviet-era peripherals, each of whom adds a vital dimension to the Russian picture….
Read on here.
And here.
I’ve heard Hamelin do Obukhov and Feinberg. He’s doing the Feinberg third sonata on his Carnegie concert this fall.
After Stalin pianists-class of N.Igumnov, that was gay were persecuted and jailed: Shtarkman, Boris Zemlyansky who was V.Ashkenazy teacher commited suicide later. Champions of Arthur Lurie music were also Yury Bashmet, French pianist M.-C. Jeraud. Arthur Lurie had love affair with poet Anna Akhmatova.
My teacher was a champion of Roslavetz, since the 1960s.
Not really any different from today if you’re not from the Left and want to belong anywhere, especially a university.
It’s in the Left DNA to censor, expel, reject, shout at and destroy.
“in the Left DNA to censor, expel, reject, shout at and destroy.”
But not in that of the right?
You regard Christianity as of the Left?
Er…your comments on needing to be “from the Left” to belong in university are, frankly, not just wrong but also bizarre.
I recorded and continue to perform the piano music of the extraordinary Obukhov. He will be included in the recital I will be giving on 9 April 2020 at the Philharmonie de Paris. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Obouhow-Piano-Works-Jay-Gottlieb/dp/B003VPG8C0