Posted on 05/17/2016 5:52:25 PM PDT by Olog-hai
World-renowned violinist Itzhak Perlman said he canceled his Wednesday performance with the North Carolina Symphony after he was told he would not be able to include a personal statement opposing the state’s new law limiting antidiscrimination policies for LGBT people in the event program.
In an interview with the Associated Press on Tuesday, Perlman said he will not perform in North Carolina until the law is reversed.
“If I’m invited, I will come once the law’s repealed. But as long as this thing is there, I have to take a stand,” Perlman said. …
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In fact, the world will go on if you do not ever play in the U.S. again.
The herd of independent minds in its usual lockstep.
People who are superb at one thing are often terrible at everything else.
I wonder what his rabbi says.
She does it in the woods.
Being crippled and being mentally sick are not quite the same thing. The great violinist should know that. I wonder if the late conductor, Leonard Bernstein, had a bad influence on him.
I think seriously on these types of news announcements.
I am not sure what Perlman’s orientation is, and it doesn’t matter. He and many others not only bow out of engaging in events in NC but they also ANNOUNCE THE REASON FOR CANCELLING.
So there is a clue in itself. Why the need to ‘explain’? The need is to put political pressure on the NC government to reverse their law, and perhaps more importantly to warn other governments that are working on the same type of legislation.
There is a society of agents for international star performers. These agents are always talking to each other about scheduling their performer either with others or separate from others so as to maximize ticket sales.
It is against an agent’s instinctive desire to rake in sales receipts that they would make a cancellation and then ANNOUNCE THE REASON for doing so.
So what could it be? What would make these agents cancel an entire state with so much money at stake? Bathrooms? No. That’s silly.
What’s making them cancel is the existence of another society, a bigger and more influential society, that orders cancellations or else. Perlman’s agent likely heard someone on the phone demand a cancellation be made OR ELSE. Or else what? Or else Perlman wasn’t going to get any offers from other lucrative performance venues.
What we have is a political force, a business force, and a financing force, all pressuring performers to tow a political line or else. All this for the purpose of confusing gender identity which amounts to nearly zero percent of the wider public.
It should be obvious this is agenda driven.
Now here’s a way to view a means to fight back:
Perlman, by cancelling his performance in venues where the public chooses via their elected representatives to set proper norms and traditions, is in fact, himself DISCRIMINATING AGAINST TRADITIONS of a region, a public society.
The homosexual lobby has shown the way in how they file lawsuits against Christian businesses and push for heavy prosecution.
A way to possibly fight back is to sue the business of Perlman, sue his agent and any John Does that are revealed to have coerced him or his agent. The plaintiff can sue for religious discrimination by Perlman and named parties.
Once the lawsuit is filed in a friendly court, the plaintiff’s lawyers can ANNOUNCE that Perlman is being sued for damages over religious discrimination, damages amounting to lost revenues to patrons of the arts, to the local businesses that normally benefit from crowds attending his performances, from the public who feel ‘emotionally distressed’ by Perlman’s discrimination, and so on.
The idea is to get on the offence because otherwise this nonsense will never stop. But more importantly, the first battles must be won decisively. The very best, most aggressive, most esteemed lawyers must be retained to file such lawsuits to maximize the probability of winning. Because there is one certainty in the legal workd, successful lawsuits that achieve damage awards build themselves a cottage industry of lawsuits.
And the result will be all the performers that have made it to the limelight will never ever be sucked into political coercion again. In the Perlman case, his agent will be begging to not have him involved in ‘following orders’ from those setting the agenda because of legal risk.
It’s only the flaming libs in Asheville, Chapel Hill, Triangle and other infested NC cities that are upset with entertainers cancelling shows.
The rest of us are amused.
Excellent post. Thought provoking.
These show biz clods goose-stepping in ranks together being pressured
by commissar masters seems very likely.
Excellent post. Thought provoking.
These show biz clods goose-stepping in ranks together being pressured
by commissar masters seems very likely.
Wait. He refused service to people in the state of NC?
If he was a baker he would have been sued and fined by the State.
Take this bigot to court!!
Good grief. I do not care what his personal thoughts are on the matter. Just get on stage and play or move out of the way for someone who will.
““If I’m invited, I will come once the law’s repealed. But as long as this thing is there, I have to take a stand,” “
Perlman was invited twice to the Soviet Union in 1990, whose Article 121 at that time punished homosexuality with up to 5 years in prison. According to Wikipedia, “during the Soviet regime, Western observers believed that between 800 to 1,000 men were imprisoned each year under Article 121.”
In either of these cases did he “have to take a stand” against the communist authorities of the Soviet Union?
Here’s how his own website describes the stand he had to take then:
‘As someone who has throughout my whole life consistently stood up for the rights of minorities, I cannot accept. I will come once the law’s repealed. But as long as the Soviet Union’s Article 121 is there, I have to take a stand,’ ... oh sorry wrong script.
Here’s the actual stand he took, according to his own website:
“He again made history as he joined the orchestra for its first visit to the Soviet Union in April/May of 1990, and was cheered by audiences in Moscow and Leningrad who thronged to hear his recital and orchestral performances. This visit was captured on a PBS documentary entitled Perlman in Russia which won an Emmy.”
http://www.itzhakperlman.com/about/
He plays the violin but fiddles with himself...
Obama is flushing out so many Marxists with his tyranny.
Great post. You’re right.
“She does it in the woods.”
She’s the fastest on the keyboard I’ve ever seen, and it appears to be effortless for her.
In the video you posted. Make sure to go to around 48:00 and watch the short duet with her sister.
Here’s another effortless, amazing pianist (Erroll Garner):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_tAU3GM9XI
He wrote that song.
Waiting for Yo Yo Ma to follow to jump on this bandwagon.
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