Posted on 03/09/2022 9:04:07 PM PST by SeekAndFind
To virtue signal against Russia’s conflict with Ukraine, many Americans, companies, and organizations have taken to cancelling anything or anyone with connections to Russia. Bars have stopped serving vodka. The Met got rid of a Russian opera singer. Now, an orchestra has cancelled Tchaikovsky.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky has been dead for over 128 years, but that doesn’t prevent him from being hit by Ukraine Justice Warriors at the Cardiff Philharmonic. They had an all-Tchaikovsky program planned for this week but have changed the program in light of the Russian invasion.
Tchaikovsky is cancelled now https://t.co/c2czaH1xkl
— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) March 9, 2022
According to Classical-Music:
Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture was due to be included in the orchestra’s upcoming all-Tchaikovsky concert at St David’s Hall on 18 March, but it was considered by the orchestra ‘to be inappropriate at this time’.
The 1812 Overture was written to commemorate the successful Russian defence against Napoleon’s invasion in 1812, featuring cannon fire, chimes and a brass fanfare. The piece was due to be performed alongside another militaristic work by Tchaikovsky: his 1876 Marche slave, written to celebrate Russia’s involvement in the Serbian-Ottoman War. The composer’s Second Symphony was the final piece in the programme.
Anyone who thinks the actions of the Cardiff Philharmonic will help the people of Ukraine is an absolute idiot. Not a single person would have been offended if they played the music of one of the greatest composers of all time, Russian or not.
Kraft Russian dressing next?
This is as stupid is renaming sauerkraut “liberty cabbage” during WWI.
I threw out all my Rachmaninoff CDs. 🇺🇦
Hollywood will soon announce that they are no longer having Russian villains in their drama series due to Putin. All dramas will only have extreme right white supremacists villains.
Homophobes!!!
The Mask Karen’s ‘pounced’ onto their new target.
Karen Goes To War!
STAND WITH UKRAINE = STAND WITH NEO-NAZIS
I love Russian music and Russian composers. I will not change my mind. My ancestors came from what is now Ukraine. Cancelling Russian music will not affect Mr. Putin in the slightest. How will this accomplish anything? It will simply stir up undeserved hatred.
You could have sent them to me.
The 1812 has canons going off in the coda so I can understand not being appropriate. But are his piano and violin concertos allowed ?
A local wine and spirits store was pulling Karkov Vodka from the shelves until some informed management that Karkov was made in Minnesota. However living in the People’s Republic of Minnesota, it is quite possible that vodka is made by a least some communists.
Burn your Stravinsky cd’s too.. I mean with Putin conducting his Rite of Spring.
Nothing is too stupid that people will not virtue signal over it.
Finally sticking it to that Putin-lovin’ Tchaikovsky.
Oh sure. Everyone hates the Klingons now but in the future they will be one of our closest allies.
A new level of hatred thanks to the mad dog killer, Putin.
Thank you for that. (Post 4.) I love Tchaikovsky.
This has gone beyond idiotic.
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