Incredible. Well, alas, not literally.
I am so appalled by this “canceling” of anyone or anything Russian...it’s like something out of the lead-in to WWI (more than WWII) and is utterly crazy.
But still, canceling Tchaikovsky for being Russian is about the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard of.
He wanted to join The Five and turn it into The Six, but the five composers of The Five thought he wasn't Russian enough.
If the Russian musicians were to cancel Macdowell, Paine, Beach, Joplin, Gershwin, Copland, Brubeck, Cascarino, Williams, and Glass, we'd throw a fit and say it was Slavic stupidity. Well, it's stupidity here too, regardless of where one stands on the Ukraine war.