Sofia is split over pro-Putin pianist
OrchestrasThe Kyiv-born pianist Valentina Lisitsa, shunned in most concerthalls for her vehement support for Putin’s invasion, has been allocated two Rachmaninov performances with the Sofie Philharmonic in the Bulgarian capital this month.
But protest is brewing.
Professor Amelia Licheva has called on the minister of culture to prohibit these ‘shameful and immoral’ engagements.
Music is music, politics is politics. End of story, goodbye, the end!
In that case, ask Mrs Lisitsa to stay away from politics ??
How about that ?
She is no more wrong than anyone who supported Bush during the invasion of Iraq.
Hence, back to my statement.
Supporting systematic and brutal mass murder of civilians as well as multiple other daily war crimes (for nearly 14 months now) by invading armed forces is not mere “politics” at all – it is in itself a real crime against humanity.
Really? Funny that…considering England, America, Israel have also been doing brutal mass murder of civilians in their own wars in the Middle East.
Oh I’m engaging in whataboutism? Why yes I am. So what. It’s relevant.
It’s not relevant at all for several reasons that are well known to those of us who are evidently better informed about the huge differences between various world events and apparently less biased in our attitudes toward them.
What a word salad. I have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about and I doubt you do either.
Ukrainian lives do not matter more than Afghan lives, or Iraqi lives. Just because your skin might be white does not mean your lives matter more.
Greetings to Moscow.
I have a feeling that things will suddenly feel more ”relevant” when the war arrives to Moscow…
London actually…your postcard needs to be addressed 2500km west.
Ahhh… Russia’s chief propagandist Solovyev’s son is also in London. Do you happen to know him by any chance ?
By the way, wasn’t London already supposed to be taken by the Red Army ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoUludht8-s
You must be quite disappointed that it didn’t happen yet ….
No I don’t actually. All I want is people to separate music from politics. Not much to ask, is it.
You seem to be much more optimistic about this than I am.
Lisitsa a kook long before her Putin sympathies. Erratic, scatter-brained, airhead. I know because it was my job to work with her.
What’s worse: her politics or her sound?
In a way, pianists are like horses, or athletes. Don’t know if Valentina Lisitsa is in good shape right now, but she was great 10-15 years ago.
Amelia Licheva is talking about morality? So funny!
Just back from Sofia, and I didn’t notice anything worth splitting.
To imply some kind of moral/legal/human equivalency between Russian “special military operations” and those by Western countries during recent decades requires astonishing level of ignorance about the subject. Here is a little bit of education for those of us who may be more interested in learning about historical facts rather than in blindly trusting every word of Kremlin’s propaganda: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-04-11/ukraine-russia-war-crimes-putin .