Munich’s musicians rally for Ukraine
NewsPlayers from all of Munich’s top orchestra are forming an ad hoc orchestr with academy students to give a benefit concert at the Isarphilharmonie on Saturday with conductor Michael Balke.
He will be standing symbolically on the podium from which Valery Gergiev was fired.
Report here.
Opportunism and virtue signalling.
Fantastic initiative!!!
Fascinating to see what good orchestras can do when they decide to. It’d just be nice if they bothered to do it for other people facing war and starvation, not just Ukrainians. Months in to this war and the double standards are still out in force.
Window dressing and a phony alibi while Germany sends €200 million per day to Russia for energy.
Impressive to see and hear what they did in Munich in such short time – musicians from all different backgrounds (students, refugees, professionals, from Ukraine and Munich) sounded better than many orchestras that play together regularly.
Watch here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bYFyatk7mg