Currentzis is named professor in Moscow

Currentzis is named professor in Moscow

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norman lebrecht

May 03, 2023

The Russian-Greek conductor Teodor Currentzis has been named honorary professor at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire.

His outlets outside Russia are progressively being shut down.

Comments

  • Alan P says:

    Currentzis is an outstanding talent. The anti-Russian bias on this website is shameful and disgusting

    • Tom Phillips says:

      They’ve done so much to deserve the hate, both throughout their barbaric history as well as now.

    • Genius Repairman says:

      If you want to go around invading your neighbours and throw 10s of 1000s of lives away and bomb theatres you get what’s coming to you.

  • Alan says:

    And a look at his website would suggest that the last line of the article is pure nonsense. Several countries welcoming him over the next few months.

  • Wtf? says:

    By the way I still don’t understand Norman’s logic concerning how a certain wealthy man tied to shady dealings coming to Currentzis’ concert means the latter is a villain who is pro-war and pro-Putin and the devil incarnate. It’s like saying Hitler coming to Fürtwangler’s concerts means the latter is the evilest man ever. Of course I exaggerate a little, but one can’t control who comes to one’s concerts!

  • Pierre says:

    He’s conducting the SWR SO in Baden-Baden and Lucerne this month.

  • TruthHurts says:

    This is scandalous: A woman should have been appointed.
    All teaching positions in the classical music world should now be offered solely to females, with a token assortment of minorities of course, to balance things out.
    What can be done to correct this outrage?

    • May says:

      As long as the conductor paints his nails, he satisfies the quota requirement.

    • Genius Repairman says:

      TruthHurts your sarcasm is noted. By the way, how many potentially great composers and conductors did we miss out on hearing because they were women?

      • May says:

        Um … zero.

        What you are suggesting is a construct. Many great artists, male and female, have been neglected by history, however that was not a fault of their gender, rather of their personal misfortunes. Some of them get discovered by a later generation, often because today we have an obsession with “victims,” but in so many cases does their re-discovery simple highlight why those artists were neglected in the first place.

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