Pianist leads protest against Canadian gold diggers
mainThe politically engaged Turkish pianist Fazil Say has given an open-air concert for thousands of spectators in the northwest province of Canakkale to protest against Government-sanctioned deforestation by a Canadian gold-mining firm, Alamos Gold Inc.
Fazil calls it ‘a massacre of nature… of plants andn anmals.’
Fazil also needs to go to Brazil where the deforestation rate has increased dramatically.
In our civilised world, we should start planting trees.
Trees do matter for musicians in many ways.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoR8gAl0M1c
This said, the trees behind Gustav Mahler’s Komponierhäuschen in Alt-Schluderbach have been taken down.
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I was in Canakkale 10 years ago. What beautiful nature….!
I’d love to visit Canada; what a wonderful country.
You do know that Canakkale is in Turkey, right?
The gold-mining company is Canadian.
Easy to criticize the Canadians from such a distance. Why doesn’t he protest against his own government and publicly declare Erdogan as a “murderer and rapist of nature”? It’s all about virtue signaling which is just a symptom of a deep sickness of the soul.
The guy is just being smart. Virtue signaling against Canada results i more invitations to give recitals (and moral speeches) in Canada. If he is so virtuous in Turkey he gets some baton punches and goes to jail.
Fazil Say has already gotten himself into trouble taking a principled and public stand against the policies of Erdogan’s government and radical Islam.
Neither you nor Erdogan are in a position to judge Say’s “soul”.
I don’t think that we should be caring about his or our nationalities.
The problems Fazil addresses are of general ethical relevance.
He has never been an uncritical human being in his own country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fazıl_Say#Blasphemy_charge
Variations on a theme: some dig gold, others play the Goldberg.
Politically-engaged Turk throwing around the word “massacre”?
One million Armenians…
So much for Justin Trudeau… His carefully crafted public image becomes more and more cracked each passing day (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/22/justin-trudeau-the-rise-and-fall-of-a-political-brand).
Several years ago a Turkish court convicted Fazil Say and sentenced him, fortunately in absentia, to prison for “insulting Islam”. He can’t go back there.
Have you heard his piece “A Dervish in Manhattan” and variations on Mozart’s “Rondo alla turca”? An original piece of his called “Black Earth” is striking He played them in his recital here.
Some good pianists are from Turkey: gesides Fazil Saay there’s Idil Biret, a pupil of Wilhelm Kempff’s; the impressive Huseyin Sermet, and Setrak, though some say Setrak isn’t Turkish but Balkan.
And for opera fans with long memories: Leyla Gencer.
Can’t he simply play the piano and stop environmental stupidities?