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Title: Toronto Symphony Orchestra Goes Full Stalin [Ukainian Nazis]
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URL Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blo ... ny-orchestra-goes-full-stalin/
Published: Apr 7, 2015
Author: Daniel McAdams
Post Date: 2015-04-07 07:58:09 by Tooconservative
Keywords: blacklist
Views: 3003
Comments: 19
However, it was also on social media that she committed an unpardonable political crime that led the thought police in Canada to cancel an upcoming performance and offer to pay her as if she played if she would just keep her mouth shut about being blacklisted. Thankfully she refused. What was Lisitsa’s crime? As she explained today on Facebook, the Kiev native was not at all happy that a coup government had taken power in her home country and was bombing its citizens in eastern Ukraine. She was particularly incensed about mendacious and one-sided western coverage of the events in Ukraine, so she responded to many of these media outlets forcefully and persuasively. For example, when the French version of Elle magazine ran a photo shoot glorifying female neo-Nazi militia members in Ukraine, Lisitsa sent the magazine evidence of their glamorized young girl’s abhorrent ideology. The magazine did issue a written apology, but in her success Lisitsa made many enemies among those powerful individuals who back the US/UK/Canada enterprise in Ukraine. So they took to a Soviet-style whispering campaign to discredit her. The smear-bund worked among what passes for cultural leaders in Canada. She was axed from performing this week with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra due to what Symphony president Jeff Melanson claimed were “ongoing accusations of deeply offensive language.” As might be expected in such a Soviet-style atmosphere, the pianist was not even afforded the opportunity to face her accusers — or even to know who they were. “Someone in the orchestra’s top management, likely after the pressure from a small but aggressive lobby claiming to represent the Ukrainian community, has made a decision that I should not be allowed to play,” she writes, referring to her scheduled TSO performances on Wednesday and Thursday. “I don’t even know who my accusers are, I am kept in the dark about it.” Pointing out that Elle was glorifying Nazis earned her a Toronto Symphony Orchestra blacklist. Toronto Symphony Orchestra president Jeff Melanson sounds like a perfect little commie commissar when he sniffs: As one of Canada’s most important cultural institutions our priority must remain on being a stage for the world’s great works of music, and not for opinions that some believe to be deeply offensive. In other words, a musician must primarily be judged not by her talent, but by her adherence to the party line. Politics first. As the Soviet Communist Party theoretical magazine Kommunist wrote in 1954, the artist must be above all subject to an ideological test: The artist who deviates from social realism serves interest alien to the proletariat and to his creative effort. So we are “back in the USSR” in Canada, eh? Poster Comment: I tried to include two of the photos of the young Nazi woman from the linked source.
Ukrainian-born, North Carolina-dwelling pianist Valentina Lisitsa is an impressive talent. Most recently she released albums of Rachmaninov Concertos and works by Liszt on Decca Records. She is known for developing a massive following with the savvy use of social media like YouTube. In 2012 she sold out the Royal Albert Hall in an event that was also live-streamed to 100,000 people. 
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#10. To: TooConservative (#0)
Alright, I've read the article. My comments were true, as far as the professional destruction of Nazis and anti- black racists: those people do get ostracized. But my directing those comments at Ms. Lisitsa was absolutely wrong in every sense. For SHE was CRITICIZING the Nazi elements that overthrew the government of her country, not supporting them. The pictures posted with the article were not OF Lisitsa, but rather of a girl in the Ukraine who had been praised to high heaven by the Western media. Lisitsa was opposing that girl, and people who think like her, and I came in like a blunderbuss and shot friendly fire at her. How could this have happened? Simple. It happened because I was a hair- trigger hothead who did not actually take the time to CAREFULLY READ what I was commenting on. Instead, I saw a few words, saw some photos, and launched an opinionated screed based on bile, piss and wind. I denigrate people who do that sort of thing to ME all the time, and here I am doing the exact same thing. So, Ms. Lisitsa, if you ever read this. I am sorry. I maligned you and identified you with the people you hate, because I'm a blowhard jackass who likes to hear the sound of his own voice. I should take this as an object lesson in practicing what I preach, and in never shooting off my mouth until I know, for sure, what I am talking about. I have damaged by credibility in doing so, and it DESERVES to be damaged. You were wrongly prevented from playing in Toronto, and I'm glad that you did not keep quiet about it. Obviously you have integrity. Obviously sometimes I don't. I'll work on it.
Not that much. A chat board really isn't like writing for a newspaper or magazine. Chat is just chat. Of course, I do know you take your writing seriously so if you really want to pull out the sackcloth and ashes and start ripping your clothes, have at it. : )
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#11. To: Vicomte13 (#10)
I have damaged by credibility in doing so, and it DESERVES to be damaged.
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