Richard Tucker’s son is fired from his foundation

Richard Tucker’s son is fired from his foundation

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norman lebrecht

July 21, 2020

In response to an outcry over anti-BLM comments that he made on Facebook, David Tucker has been sacked from the board of his father’s foundation for developing young singers.

 

The Richard Tucker Music Foundation condemns the hurtful and offensive comments made by one of our Board members, David Tucker. David has been removed from the Richard Tucker Foundation Board of Directors, effective immediately. David’s opinions do not align with the beliefs and mission of the Richard Tucker Music Foundation, a Foundation built on the legacy of a Jewish-American singer who sought to bridge religious and cultural differences.

The Foundation recognizes the need to find ways we can better apply core values of equality and inclusion across our organization and programs. We know that we can improve our auditions and awards process to create more equitable opportunities and increase diversity organization-wide. To this end, we are currently assembling a diversity advisory task force of artists and thought leaders to address these issues. We look forward to openly sharing our next steps and continuing to support the next generation of operatic talent. – Jeffrey Manocherian, Chairman, and Barry Tucker, President, Richard Tucker Music Foundation Board of Directors

 

Comments

    • Equality says:

      Well, it’s time for Jews to recognize they are no longer the chosen ones anymore when it comes to social justice.

      Blacks have claimed that title from them in the States brilliantly.

      • Not ‘too big to fail’ says:

        Indeed! How offensive!!

        Instead of riding on the successes of a dead man, the entire board must resign and disband the Tucker Foundation immediately.

        Like Obama said “you didn’t build that; somebody else built that for you”.

        The board members should be closing all financial accounts and simply move on now that the namesake’s son isn’t included in his rightful legacy.

        The IRS has excellent grounds to yank their 501c3 status and should take bold action due to the board’s blatant anti-semitism. Hope Mr. Tucker sues.

        • Larry D says:

          I admire your alacrity in taking the wrong side. But I suspect you’ve had a lot of practice.

          • Hugh Goldman says:

            You’re anti-Semitic and believe Jews should simply give up their lineage to appease the blacks Larry D??? No!

    • Karl says:

      Do you mean the New York Times? They have been doing evil things lately.

  • Phillip Ayling says:

    ‘We want to increase diversity by having a smaller range of opinions when we discuss things. We prefer to silence voices on a Board rather than spending any time to see if we can enlighten or transform people to meet current challenges together’.

  • sam says:

    Children of famous people (known as “the sons of”), who otherwise have no discernible talent of their forebearers, have no business running the foundations of their forebearer (whether they are called Tucker or Wagner or whatever).

    David (known as “the middle son of” Tucker) has lived off his father’s fame long enough (he wrote an autobiography half of which is about his father).

    I would say good riddance, but he never should’ve been on the Board to begin with.

  • James says:

    It wasn’t just anti-BLM comments. They were extremely racist comments, which also included arguably even worse comments about how if Black singers won the main prize in the competition, it would lower the level of the competition as a whole. Good for the Foundation for removing him from the board.

  • Fred says:

    This whole thing has become ridiculous, David Tucker just called those ‘protesters’ who looted and started fires : “thugs”. Geezzz he’s fired because he rightfully used the word ‘”thug’???? C’mon this is the end of free speech and democracy and shows how crazy this whole movement has become. A thugis a thug whether white or black. It also shows the board of the foundation has no ballls and that asking for law and order is considered hurtful, oh my

    • John Kelly says:

      Read what he actually wrote in total. The “thug” stuff is the least of it……….

    • Tiredofitall says:

      Please don’t feign innocence by not knowing to what group “thugs” refers to. Whether a direct reference to black protesters or those in the front lines who are supporting race equality, “thugs” is a dog-whistle. The majority of Americans are not that stupid not to recognise racism when we see it.

      • Peter San Diego says:

        Well, President Obama has used the word “thugs” more than once to refer to people — independent of color — committing violence against the innocent, so I don’t buy a blanket identification of the word as a racist dog whistle. It really depends on who is using the word, and how.

        Etymologically, the word came into English, in the early 19th century, from the Hindi “thag,” meaning a rogue or cheat.

      • Brian says:

        A dog-whistle is a dog-whistle and words are words. A word cannot be a dog whistle. Mr. Tucker used correct vocabulary for what he meant. Stop trying to put words into his mouth.

    • Couperin says:

      A president can also be a thug, as well as police, undercover federal agents, gun toting right wing militias, gun toting lawyers, people who drive their cars into people, and presidential advisors.

      • Andrei Duparc says:

        True Couperin.

        Barack Hussein Obama was and well as the Clinton klan are destructive thugs. Thank GOD Hillary has been relegated to powerlessness.

        Oh, since you’re anti-gun and police. Don’t bother anyone when you need help. Take care of it yourself!

        At least property taxes will go down. Less police, guns, prisons, etc.; less need to leech taxpayers for services they won’t receive.

  • Frankster says:

    What is really surprising is that many still do not understand, including a certain President, that putting their comments and feelings on Twitter makes them available to public view. Why a person with a heritage like that would feel it necessary to express in public radical and controversial thought is hard to understand.

  • Player says:

    What is it that he said that was racist?

    • V. Lind says:

      “pulling the race card is another convenient excuse to modify excellent standards of vocal artistry.”

      • #TalentMatters says:

        That’s a true statement.

        • Karl says:

          But it’s a dog whistle! Ban it!

        • V. Lind says:

          Is it? His implication is that black singers are incapable of musical excellence. Tell that to Jessye Norman.

          • Kenneth Heinz says:

            Jessye didn’t play the race card.

            She had legitimate talent and class unlike the black girls after her with whom she was highly disappointed with per her interviews.

            Unfortunately for those of us who appreciated her, she’s dead.

  • Jackyt says:

    What is a “thought leader”?

    • Herbie G says:

      What is a Thought Leader? Someone like Hitler, Kim Jong-un, Stalin and Senator McCarthy; those who can have you arrested, tried and sometimes put to death for committing a thoughtcrime.

  • Anon says:

    “….protesters in Portland, Ore., who said they had been detained by federal officers in unmarked vans. In response, Mr. Tucker commented, “Good. Get rid of these thugs and I don’t care where you send them. They are a Pox on our society.”

    In another comment, he wrote, “About time someone tough will try to crush the mob before they destroy and kill more innocent people. Bravo to Trump to send in Federal troops.” “

    Definitely insensitive.
    How do we know that half the country isn’t thinking these terrible thoughts?
    Also, is it ever possible for someone to apologize or must their career come to a sudden end?

    • tiredofitall says:

      They very well may be having similar thoughts, but that hardly makes it acceptable or just. If you deny someone’s rights as human beings, you jeopardise your own.

      Do you really think a simple apology would change David Tucker’s mindset? He justifiably lost his place at Foundation table.

    • fcg says:

      He never apologized, preferring to double-down on his position.

      Also, you didn’t include his comment strongly suggesting the inferiority of black singers.

  • Vincent Freeman says:

    David Tucker’s comments were disgusting (but not shocking). Good riddance.

    • F. Swemson says:

      Black people today have unfortunately found themselves on the leading edge of modern Anti-Semitic sentiment, and it is a grave mistake on their part, caused to no small degree by the alignment of lower class blacks with the muslim mob of Louis Farrakhan. David Tucker’s comment about the BLM movement was absolutely correct. They are indeed a criminal communist mob and their behavior since the George Floyd incident has had nothing to do with the fact that he was black. It was motivated solely by the far left progressives who are desperate to get rid of President Trump at ANY cost. The MOST offensive part of this however is the fact that no group of people has ever been discriminated against more than the Jews. For these “useful idiots” to accuse any Jewish person of being a racist is simply outrageous. The Richard Tucker Foundation isn’t even remotely racist. Everything I’ve read about this affair thus far has made mention of the fact that while several black singers had won grants from the foundation ONLY one black singer had won the foundation’s “top award”. Considering the ratio of black to white opera singers, that’s pretty impressive. It’s similar to the complaint by many blacks that Silicon Valley doesn’t hire enough black software engineers, as if there were any unemployed black software engineers to begin with. If more blacks studied computer science in college than “black studies” that wouldn’t be the case. This entire episode is a stunning example of how intellectually corrupt the progressive (communist) far left in America actually is. I’m 100% with David Tucker on this issue. The BLM is indeed a pox on our great country, and I’m embarrassed that more of my fellow Jews do not support President Trump more vigorously. No American President has ever been a better friend to the Jewish people and the State of Israel, and it’s likely that antisemitism will continue to grow world wide if he is defeated in November.

      • fcg says:

        Re: “I’m embarrassed that more of my fellow Jews do not support President Trump more vigorously.”

        Maybe because they are smart enough to realize that Trump’s pandering to Bibi is about appeasing evangelicals, as they sit at the edge of their seats waiting for the end times.

        It has *nothing* to do with supporting Israel.

  • Nee Nee says:

    From their Marxist Instagram profile with a socialist, violent fist (of course)..

    “Black Opera Alliance
    We empower Black classical artists and administrators by exposing racial inequity and the under-representation of the African diaspora in opera.”

    The black supremacists have spoken leaving no tolerance for any other race.

    • Herbie G says:

      How many operas have been written by composers of the African diaspora? I can think of one or two black composers who wrote operas – including Samuel Coleridge Taylor, whose only opera was recently given what was probably its first performance. Maybe Chi Chi Nwanoku and her orchestra, with singers – all black – could record this and other unrecorded works by S C T rather than campaigning to remove Rule, Brittania from the Proms.

      This brings me to Porgy and Bess. I may not be the first to say this, but surely that should be banned because it was written by a white man (who stubbornly remained so throughout his life) on a black subject and so amounts to Cultural Appropriation!

  • Herbie G says:

    How long will it be before persistently being white will be a crime? BLM is a political movement and therefore open to criticism just like any other political organisation. I have an inherent loathing of political organisations that rely on mobs touting physical gestures – we all know what that led to not so long ago.

    It’s one thing to abhor the obnoxious racist violence of the American police, fanned up by the odious fake president who I hope will shortly be ignominiously defeated. It’s quite another to be bullied, intimidated and sacked for not supporting BLM’s political agenda or the hoodlums who commit criminal damage in support of their cause. Smacks too much of the Third Reich to me.

    • Peter San Diego says:

      I share your views. But please note that after the first several days following George Floyd’s murder, the protests became much more peaceful, with the main body of protesters self-policing and restraining those who intended vandalism or violence.

      Speaking personally, it is only in the past few months that I have learned the constant stress, cause by prejudicial treatment, under which African-American neighbors of mine (in a thoroughly integrated and thoroughly boring middle-class neighborhood) live and have lived their entire lives.

      The political pendulum is under-damped, to be sure, and overshoots the mark; let us hope it comes to rest in a state of greater equity for all.

    • christopher storey says:

      I cannot agree with you more, Herbie G

    • V. Lind says:

      You know, he might have made that case. I think it was his suggestion about black singers that prompted Joyce DiDonato, among others, to threaten to leave the board if he were not removed. He was talking about a lot more than BLM. He clearly has an ingrained animus against black people, and that is not acceptable in anyone, let alone someone in a position to affect careers.

      • Sondra Cohen says:

        Hopefully Joyce will question the true reason why she ‘found herself’ on the board along with the general complexion and political beliefs of both its members and contestants. The Board remains rather…..homogeneous with a couple exceptions.

        How many black mezzos took a ‘back seat’ to her along the way so she could indulge in her own white privilege? Giving up her seat at the table and some roles would prove her stance was legitimate. So much for that.

        Sam Ramey is another board member who is highly outspoken politically yet selfish when it comes to making way for blacks. He also was James Levine’s supporter all those years and NEVER spoke up in support of the victims. Sam is no better than Jimmy either way even though he thinks he’s a Democrat. So much for his character let alone the rest of the singers who never stood with Levine’s victims. Jimmy was too powerful when it came down to their ‘Liberal values’ vs jobs eh??

        • Musicman says:

          They all stand up to straight people, but are too cowardly to stand up to the gay mafia members such as Levine and Zambello.

          • Member says:

            Makes one question both the necessity and veracity of AGMA after all these years, doesn’t it??

  • Charles Clark-Maxwell says:

    I find the capitalisation gets annoying :

    “We empower Black classical artists…”

  • Yes Addison says:

    An ugly episode.

    A comment by the bass Morris Robinson in the Facebook discussion implied that this is something that has been a source of frustration or puzzlement to many black singers, that only one of them has received the Tucker Award in its 42 years of existence (“We were all scratching our heads”). Black singers have received assistance in other ways, such as grants, but only one has won the big prize. It is a paltry showing, certainly, in light of the big talents active in those decades. And it’s not as though the Foundation can claim to be casting a worldwide net, so the ranks of past winners are stuffed with singers from Bulgaria, Finland and Latvia. The Tucker Award is specifically for American singers.

    On that background, Tucker’s inflammatory remarks are an even worse look.I think his removal from the Foundation’s board of directors is for the best.

    • Shades of White says:

      Morris (like most Blacks) do not understand there is a difference between White and Jewish to begin with. They aren’t taught anything about Jews, Catholics, etc., only about Christianity or Baptists if at all.

      When they grasp the overt self-segregation of Jews to other races they try to lump in as White such as Asians and Native Americans which they care nothing about, they will begin to understand the various levels of discrimination “White” people face regularly.

      No one is capable of defining what constitutes as Whiteness (particularly Democrats). That’s why they have lost so many votes along with ‘working class America’ to their fantasies.

      So commenters, what racial and religious groups are and ARE NOT white??? This should be good considering the expected higher educational levels of this type of group as its classically oriented.

    • No Addison says:

      Blacks remain DIRT under the Jew’s feet. Ask Palestinians and Africans. Morris really has no clue.

      • M McAlpine says:

        And this is not a racist remark?

        • Mogombu says:

          It’s clearly factual.

          Yes M McAlpine; Jews are racist against blacks. Look at synagogues and temples, neighborhoods and schools. Blacks are not welcome. Neither are other ‘white people’, Hispanics, Asians, Native Americans…

          Fortunately the #BLM protesters are going into those areas and police are backing down.

          It’s time blacks were included in the Jewish communities and paid reparations long overdue.

          • Musicman says:

            Homosexuals are also racist against blacks! Look what happened at Glimmerglass!

          • Barack says:

            Mr. Levine loved his chocolate boys!

            The met agreed!!

            Note their settlement!!!

          • Musicman says:

            Then he used them as sex slaves…which is even more disgustingly racist!

          • Musicman says:

            That comment is racist. Referring to people of color as “chocolate” is derogatory. You are obviously gay and covering for Jimmy. If Jimmy were straight, you would all condemn him for using children of color for sex as I did in my other comment. But these comments prove my point. When a homosexual abuses people or engages in a racist rhetoric, people cover for them with racist language of their own. When it’s a white straight man, you throw them right under the bus. If the arts is to survive this pandemic, we must hold ANYBODY who engages in a racist rhetoric or abuses other human beings accountable, regardless of the minority groups to which they belong!

          • Hip Opera Lover says:

            You don’t know much about black folks Musicman.

            Yo bess go axe one outside yo ivory, ‘college-educated’, Lib Bubble.

            “Chocolate” has been a black term in da hood since back in the 60’s!

            Use ‘Reverend’ Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson as references when addressing the “chocolate cities” in their rants.

            Really; get ovah yo self and chill ax!

            Oh, by the way; your inept assumption of of anyone’s sexuality reveals YOUR predilections.

            Guess what babe? You know who ‘covered’ for Jimmy Levine all those DECADES???

            The Metropolitan Opera Board including Peter Gelb and their Park Avenue legal team in each of his infamous bathroom scrapes, THAT’S WHO Musicman!!! It’s called enabling or more precisely Criminal Facilitation of a FELONY. What do you think the quiet settlement and lack of singer’s testimony was all about? Opera singers should have spoken up since the 70’s but their too cowardly in their quest for the Liberal BUCK!

          • Musicman says:

            Exactly, they covered for him because he was gay. They covered because they didn’t want to be called homophobes and attacked by the gay mafia that controls all of opera. Cowards!! And you don’t think it’s offensive for a white man to refer to a black man as “chocolate?”

          • CHECKMATE! says:

            Levine sure wasn’t!

          • F. Swemson says:

            I guess you’ve never met any Ethiopian Jews… They’re all black.

            And BTW, how many Jews do you think were slave owners…

            Jews are not racists. Jews are the most persecuted minority in human history, and calling them racist only proves your own ignorance

          • Leroy Williams says:

            That notion is patently FALSE!

            Go into any Synagogue, Temple, JCC, Jewish only school, private club; they are all quite fair-skinned and do not allow white, Asian, Hispanic, black, Indian, etc in their circles.

            Historically Sephardic Jews brokered slaves as well as other factions. Hence the need for Blacks in general and BLM demanding reparations from Jews as well.

            Are Blacks welcome in any Synagogue or JCC for instance F. Swemson?? Perhaps they should try to peacefully enter in Chicago to take refuge in love and see how that goes….

          • Information says:

            You forgot the Black Hebrew Israelites.

            Remember them??

            CNN and especially the WAPO will for a long time after today’s $250M Sandman verdict!

            Poor kid.

            “White oppression…”

          • Black Folks says:

            According to Julia Bullock and plenty of Blacks; that Jew is a RACIST!

            He’s been digitally “gassed” by US Blacks.

            It seems Jews are being dominated by Africans along with everyone else. Sorry you’re religion is so helpless and weak.

      • F. Swemson says:

        Yeah…. like Palestinians can be objective about any Jews…

  • The Cantor’s Son says:

    David got caught, but Larry is much worse.

  • Grittenhouse says:

    More disgusting behavior, kow-towing to cancel culture. How hurtful was he?

  • ricci says:

    Again David Tucker didn’t do anything wrong : he just called those violent and downright criminal ‘protesters’ thugs, and that is what they are. He asked for law and order, WTF is wrong with that? And a lot of black singers have gotten grants : A LOT but there can be only one winner and the competition is hard. Russel Thomas created this havoc by calling the racist card, ridiculous, childish and vindictive. Actually David (who wrote an excellent book) is (now regrettably was) possible the ONLY one on the board who actually has knowledge of what singing is about. That the word “thug” cost him his head is beyond belief and disgraceful….I really feel sorry for him but intelligent as he is he perhaps should have been more careful with these social media, the cause of a lot of discomfort and misery in this world. On the other hand he is courageous and entitled to his very valid point of view. just think of those shopkeepers whose businesses were looted or set on fire.

    • Yes Addison says:

      You write that “the competition is hard.” Maybe you are merely referring to the competition of all the qualifying American singers active at a given time, but someone reading along may get the impression that a number of singers travel to perform before judges and someone is adjudged the best, in the manner of Operalia or the Met Council Auditions. That isn’t the way the Tucker Prize is awarded. It is conferred on a singer who has already begun a promising career. In this case, they find you. Or they don’t, as the case may be for black American singers since 1978 besides Lawrence Brownlee.

      As for the rest of your comment, I don’t join you in feeling sorry for Dr. Tucker. I realize he’s precisely the kind of person for whom a lot of “marks” will appear on Slipped Disc: he’s an elderly white man who is no longer getting away with bad behavior he once could have gotten away with. This particular one expresses right-wing political views, making him even more lovable to a well-represented demographic here. But he’s a retired eye surgeon who’ll live out the rest of his days in relative comfort. His present woes can be summed up as being unable to continue on a board of directors, consequent to people taking offense to boorish comments he chose to make on a singer’s social-media page. In the big picture, these problems are not that horrific. No one is clubbing him, gassing him, or herding him into a van.

  • Mindy says:

    What about all the African American singers who have won the Sara Tucker Study Grant and the Richard Tucker Career Grant, of whom one of the 2019 winners is Will Liverman. There are plenty black singers on these lists. Why are these singers not being named? Why is Lawrence Brownlee ignoring these singers? The answer is because everyone is jumping on the bandwagon to support these nice protesters, you know, the ones burning down grocery stores in minority neighborhoods, beating people up, vandalizing private property, killing African American police officers, destroying mom and pop stores in black neighborhoods, creating chaos and anarchy. They are thugs and he has every right to say so.

  • Tony says:

    Absolutely unacceptable. His brother must be ashamed for yielding to those fascists. Cowardice at the highest degree! Even if his words were inadequate, which is not the case, his free speech must be respected. I hope he sues the foundation. I would do it.
    This mob will only bring more violence and the righteous will pay for the sinners. Liberals think that by kneeling and supporting this witch hunt they will be spared…How foolish!
    USA is not Europe. Americans have guns and ammunition (lots of them, thanks God!) and won’t tolerate the anarchy and intimidation from those vandals and their thought police for much longer.
    Universities, professors and the MSM publicly back a divisive and violent ideological agenda and promotes censorship of adversaries and must pay dearly for the monster they have nourished. They will be held responsible for the civil war coming…
    Meanwhile, their actions will make Trump get re-elected easily and will cause great harm to Demonrat’s representation. The silent majority will push back this insanity, first with its vote and boycotting, and then with guns and powder.
    My wallet will be closed for any organization that promotes social divisiveness, racism (which includes European cultural genocide and appeals for a white genocide), and try to push a political/ideological agenda. And quite frankly, at this point, I’ll boycott any singer/musician that make virtue signalling or try to lecture people about bullshit such as white privilege, misogyny, homophobia etc.
    I have already begun by not renewing my NATS subscription, because its president thinks she has legitimacy to utter support for the violent BLM terrorists on behalf of all voice teachers affiliated to that association. I hope many more do the same.
    SJW should be left speaking alone.

    • F. Swemson says:

      Black people today have unfortunately found themselves on the leading edge of modern Anti-Semitic sentiment, and it is a grave mistake on their part, caused to no small degree by the alignment of lower class blacks with the muslim mob of Louis Farrakhan. David Tucker’s comment about the BLM movement was absolutely correct. They are indeed a criminal communist mob and their behavior since the George Floyd incident has had nothing to do with the fact that he was black. It was motivated solely by the far left progressives who are desperate to get rid of President Trump at ANY cost. The MOST offensive part of this however is the fact that no group of people has ever been discriminated against more than the Jews. For these “useful idiots” to accuse any Jewish person of being a racist is simply outrageous. The Richard Tucker Foundation isn’t even remotely racist. Everything I’ve read about this affair thus far has made mention of the fact that while several black singers had won grants from the foundation ONLY one black singer had won the foundation’s “top award”. Considering the ratio of black to white opera singers, that’s pretty impressive. It’s similar to the complaint by many blacks that Silicon Valley doesn’t hire enough black software engineers, as if there were any unemployed black software engineers to begin with. If more blacks studied computer science in college than “black studies” that wouldn’t be the case. This entire episode is a stunning example of how intellectually corrupt the progressive (communist) far left in America actually is. I’m 100% with David Tucker on this issue. The BLM is indeed a pox on our great country, and I’m embarrassed that more of my fellow Jews do not support President Trump more vigorously. No American President has ever been a better friend to the Jewish people and the State of Israel, and it’s likely that antisemitism will continue to grow world wide if he is defeated in November.

  • Sharon says:

    I believe that a lot of the BLM protests, both peaceful and not so peaceful, are largely fueled by anxiety about jobs and personal finance and by people being so frustrated by being under a semi quarantine.

    There may have been other issues with David Tucker and the board may have been looking for an excuse to get him off the board. Of course, one has to be super careful on the internet and especially with Facebook even if one uses one’s personal account as opposed to the account of the organization.

    I am trying to help a friend’s daughter who is in danger of being sanctioned or possibly even expelled from a university program because she used the term “act like apes” in describing BLM protests in a private email to another student.

    I do believe that the new societal trend requiring all arts organizations to be so politically correct has gone too far. However I believe that this super sensitivity to what is perceived as “microaggression” or “implicit racism” is a backlash to the racism and encouragement of racism by the president.

    Eventually the craziness which I define as the supersensitivity will fizzle out. However, innocent people, like in “Me Too” will be hurt in the meantime.

    If any good comes out of it it may mean more Blacks and other minorities in various organizations, especially arts organizations. However, as I explained in a previous email, this will mean a major government investment in arts educations, including private lessons, from the youngest ages for those who show talent. It’s unlikely that this will happen.

    • Hamza Farhid says:

      #BLM ENCOURAGES racism and willfully ignores all of the black on black crime, sexual assaults, murders, etc that continue to happen daily in predominantly black, Democrat run neighborhoods.

      They don’t care about solving their internal mental deficiencies. They just want to antagonize White people out of jealousy and spite.

      Proof of this is their lack of self restraint and willingness to violate local, state and federal orders to self-quarantine.

      How diabolical of them to expose both themselves and everyone they have come into contact with to the CoronaVirus!

      They’ve been spreading it to both themselves and others according to the Scientific Data now that the infection levels have shot up in the riot areas.

  • M McAlpine says:

    It shows how careful we must be in our use of words on social media which can so easily be used against us. My own feeling is that Tucker’s ‘crime’ was nothing compared with the harm done to the people in black communities who had their homes and businesses burned by the mob. Two black people (at least) I heard in the news about were actually killed by the rampaging mob. But of course we mustn’t say anything about that.

  • Musicman says:

    And yet Francesca Zambello still has a job after ordering singers to say the “n” word onstage! It just shows that a white straight man gets fired for this immediately (as he should be) but homosexuals get a pass. The big names are clearly afraid to speak out against her for fear of being seen as anti-gay. Didonato should also refuse to appear at Glimmerglass until Francesca is fired.

  • Hmus says:

    Geez what a “comment trail!” The Russian bots are basically competing with themselves here to see who can feign more outrage while intentionally attacking both Jews and blacks while trying to make it seem as if it is those two groups who are attacking one another. Kudos, comrades. Keep yourselves busy!

  • ThrownOutOfTheKremlinForSinging says:

    David Tucker is bitter because his father Richard Tucker was never able to perform as Otello. The role was too difficult for him, so his son naturally resents the people who were at that time called “Moors”. Very natural, very easy to understand.

  • Vern says:

    This is a real mistake that the foundation shall rue!

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