German festival excludes pro-Russian founder
NewsThe Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival has informed its founder, the pianist and conductor Justus Frantz, that he is no longer welcome at its events.
Frantz, 79, has continued to perform in Russia since the Ukraine invasion of February 2022. He also served on the jury of the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
His much-repeated argument is that music should be a bridge, not a barrier, between nations.
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