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Montreal Symphony Orchestra drops Russian piano prodigy from concerts amid backlash
CTV News ^ | 9 March 2020 | Selena Ross

Posted on 03/10/2022 1:47:11 PM PST by oblomov

A young Russian pianist who was set to perform with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra this week has been struck from the schedule after protest.

However, the orchestra maintained its praise for 20-year-old Alexander Malofeev, who has been outspoken against the invasion of Ukraine, where he said he has some family members.

"The OSM feels that it would be inappropriate to receive Mr. Malofeev this week," wrote a spokesperson for the orchestra, Pascale Ouimet, in a statement.

"We continue, however, to believe in the importance of maintaining relationships with artists of all nationalities who embrace messages of peace and hope. We look forward to welcoming this exceptional artist when the context allows it."

Malofeev will no longer be performing on March 9, 10 and 13 in Montreal, though the concerts will still go ahead with different performers.

Some Ukrainian Montrealers had emailed the OSM to ask it to cancel Malofeev's performances, saying it wasn't about his stance on the war but about promoting a Russian product, in this case a "cultural product."

***SNIP***

In two Facebook posts, Malofeev has decried the war, first writing on March 2 that "the truth is that every Russian will feel guilty for decades because of the terrible and bloody decision that none of us could influence and predict."

On Monday, however, he added that he's upset by the "hatred going in all directions, in Russia and around the world," and that he "still believe[s] Russian culture and music specifically should not be tarnished by the ongoing tragedy, though it is impossible to stay aside now."

(Excerpt) Read more at montreal.ctvnews.ca ...


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To: oblomov

Stupid as an old cow party


21 posted on 03/10/2022 2:05:30 PM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They’re excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: oblomov

Symphony-goers who see how stupid and offensive and dangerous this is need to stay home. Let the righteous orchestra play to an empty hall.


22 posted on 03/10/2022 2:05:32 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: oblomov

Childish and sociopathic to punish someone innocent because of their nationality.
I remember the assaholic lectures very recently about not blaming Chinese people for the Wuhan virus.


23 posted on 03/10/2022 2:09:53 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: ought-six

It started with the Vodka. I thought that was crazy. Then Russian cst competitions, special olympics for Russian kids, and this.

If they need to try that hard to the Russian people against Putin, perhaps they need to reassess.

Can you imagine another nation perpetrating that type of control? Trying To destroy the lives of innocent people like they are doing. Both parties are looking pretty equal right now.


24 posted on 03/10/2022 2:10:00 PM PST by HollyB
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To: MercyFlush; oblomov; ought-six; George from New England; rey; Husker24; PGR88; Fenwick; Borges
I wrote: Here's your TechnoDicktaters hard at work, MercyFlush... [this after warning MercyFlush who he/she is in bed with on another earlier thread]

You wrote back: Pidor Putin is your dictator.

No sympathy for the young impressario who was figuratively gunned down by the Western TechnoDicktaters - even after renouncing Mother Russia's attack on Ukraine, thus putting himself and his family in danger from the brutal Russian warlord Putin?

I think we know where you're coming from, and it's not a very nice place, NoMercyFlush...

25 posted on 03/10/2022 2:14:02 PM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Iowa Slim
This anti-everything-and-everybody-Russian moral panic is getting petty, shabby, and vindictive.

Us Trump supporters are next.

Don't be on a list that the Western TechnoDicktaters can get hold of.

26 posted on 03/10/2022 2:15:35 PM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: kiryandil

“I think we know where you’re coming from, and it’s not a very nice place.”

No, you have no idea where I’m coming from. But you are correct in that it is not a very nice place.


27 posted on 03/10/2022 2:19:03 PM PST by MercyFlush (I don't follow the science. I follow the money. )
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To: oblomov
So he's being cancelled, even though he's expressed opposition to the war, and support for Ukraine.

The level of stupidity in all this is staggering.

28 posted on 03/10/2022 2:21:35 PM PST by tbpiper
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To: kiryandil

The Ukraine “war” is flushing out the glowworms...


29 posted on 03/10/2022 2:23:50 PM PST by oblomov
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To: MercyFlush
No, you have no idea where I’m coming from.

It's evident.

You support the Western TechnoDictators, and lap up their swill like a dog on a pile of spew.

All you had to say on this thread was that this action on the kid is wrong - and you couldn't bring yourself to do it.

30 posted on 03/10/2022 2:25:58 PM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: oblomov

Glowies R Us...


31 posted on 03/10/2022 2:26:37 PM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: oblomov

Apologizing to the cancel mob is hopeless—he would have been better up standing up for his native country and telling them all to go &^%$ themselves.


32 posted on 03/10/2022 2:28:16 PM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: oblomov

More “woke” stupidity... Like that did anything. Restaurants not serving Russian salad dressing, morons dumping out Russian vodka they already bought and then there’s the social media, “Ukrainian Strong” dipshits.

We got way to many problems in this country to give a shit about any any other country.

When we fix our own problems then you can help others.


33 posted on 03/10/2022 2:29:31 PM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: oblomov

Remember when we did this during wwii. Let’s just lock up all the Russians and put them in a camp.


34 posted on 03/10/2022 2:30:15 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: oblomov

On Christmas Eve 1944, my father’s 3rd Army outfit sang Christmas Carols with German soldiers who were in battle positions 400 yards away. On Christmas Day there were no hostilities.

Now we have this stupidity.


35 posted on 03/10/2022 2:30:42 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself.)
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To: maddog55

What’s hilarious is that there’s absolutely nothing Russian about Russian salad dressing.


36 posted on 03/10/2022 2:31:35 PM PST by oblomov
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To: kiryandil

I am not here to make you happy.


37 posted on 03/10/2022 2:32:26 PM PST by MercyFlush (I don't follow the science. I follow the money. )
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To: PeterPrinciple

“We” didn’t lock up Americans with Japanese last names.

A left-wing Dem President did.


38 posted on 03/10/2022 2:34:05 PM PST by oblomov
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To: BobL
Here's your Soros babe-lette hard at work for her/his WEF-NWO puppetmasters, as is the usual way:

post #25

It's a Last-Worder, too, apparently.   winking face

39 posted on 03/10/2022 2:36:45 PM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: oblomov

“This is just another Kulturputsch by the left. Conservatives are their real intended, eventual targets. Russians are just in the way at the moment.”

Clearly the case, particularly when they show up here.


40 posted on 03/10/2022 2:47:11 PM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone.)
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