Polish pianist stops show with anti-US tirade

Guardian (U.K.) ^ | April 28, 2009 | Andrew Gumbel

[Schnucki]

Excluding dictatorships, is there any country that's as happy with zero's policies as they were with his promises?

[grey_whiskers]

Philly, Detroit, and Atlanta.

Hotspots of Obama voters for HopenChange^TM.

Cheers!

[Doogle]

but but but Obambi’s “I hate America too” tour was suppose fix that.....

[thecabal]

Don’t let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya...

[bmwcyle]

Krystian Zimerman is a foolish man.

[steelyourfaith]

No loss, we already have an ample supply of native idiot performers.

[saganite]

I guess he might be happier if Russia got it’s hands back on his country? Poland doesn’t have choices when it comes to international alignments. It has been a pass through country since before Napolean and has to have allies on one side or the other. I think siding with the West is better but I might be biased.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

No country is more pro-American, nor more deserving of American support than Poland.

This guy is just one in a long line of talented, but thankless nitwits of all nationalities and shouldn't be mistaken for the vast majority of Poles.

Nie, nie jestem.

[JudyinCanada]

Yes, very foolish.

Interesting to watch people continue to sound off when the great uniter/apologizer/appeaser is at the helm. Did he not get the email....all is well now.

[Bobalu]

You are so right.
Poland is a great country....populated by good people.

This moron is a fluke and does not represent the vast majority of Poles.

[beaversmom]

He doesn't, as a rule, talk to the audience during performances. He says little or nothing in the press between his all-too-rare concert tours - not even about his habit of travelling everywhere with his own Steinway grand piano. He rarely grants them the pleasure of an encore.

He sounds like a temperamental a-hole. Still, he should have kept to his policy and kept a cork in it. I guess he thinks he is really showing us. I don't care how well you play the piano, the world doesn't revolve around you!

[Belasarius]

I would say the chances are pretty good that the pianist will get what he wants. Since Obama has tipped his hand pretty well that he doesn’t want to deploy these weapons it shouldn’t be that hard for the Russki’s to talk him out of them. Reagan he ain’t.

[beaversmom]

Zimerman plays Chopin Ballade No. 4 - Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_PBTGfhWD8

[Bulldawg Fan]

I dont guess he objected to taking American dollars for his performance?

[relictele]

Presumably Zimerman has heard of Warsaw and therefore the phrase Warsaw Pact should also be familiar to him.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

A very small pianist.

[tanuki]

He sounds like a washed-up Commie tool. I’ll bet that for each one of him, there are hundreds of musicians just as good who have no problems bidding the ‘good old days’ goodbye!

[Bulldawg Fan]

Better to keep your mouth shut and thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

[Conan the Conservative]

“So he triggered more than the usual rumble of discomfort when he raised his voice in the closing stages of a recital at Los Angeles’ Disney Hall on Sunday night and announced he would no longer perform in the United States in protest against Washington’s military policies. “

OMG how can we go on without his music?? Oh, thats right, we have CDs, DVDs, video, tape, records, radio....

[Flintlock]

Eurocommies will never change.
EVER.