Thursday, April 14, 2022

Russian Police Disrupt Recital Featuring Ukrainian Composer

"Moscow police halted a piano recital featuring a well-known Ukrainian composer’s music
Wednesday after receiving an anonymous bomb threat warning.
Video from the Rassvet cultural center shows two uniformed officers disrupting Russian pianist Alexei Lyubimov’s performance of Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov’s song cycle “Stufen” accompanied by verses of classic Russian poets.  
Lyubimov continues to play a song by Austrian composer Franz Schubert as the policemen make gestures to the audience. Once Lyubimov finishes playing, the audience’s applause drowns out the policemen's words." MT

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