Punishing Tchaikovsky

[Khandro]

I'm all for sanctions against Russia, but is this going too far?

https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2022-03-10/cardiff-orchestra-pulls-tchaikovsky-concert-due-to-russian-invasion

[Ellipsis]

> What is it then, ellipsis

It's an example of an orchestra taking a decision about what they play and what they don't play (and play in its place).

Cancel culture would be the audience, not the orchestra, calling out or boycotting the performance so as to ostracise the orchestra, not Tchaikovsky.

This is just an orchestra doing as they please.

[Khandro]

//This is just an orchestra doing as they please.//

err... cancelling Tchaikovsky ?

[Ellipsis]

Changing a performance is not an example of cancel culture.

When Last Night Of The Proms was changed just after the 9-11 attacks, was that cancel culture?

[Khandro]

^^ Completely different set of circumstances!

[Ellipsis]

That's how you see it.

LNOTP soon returned to its normal format and I confiently predict that the Cardiff orchestra will play the 1812 again, once the mortar fire has stopped between Russia and Ukraine. Remember, according to senior Russians, Ukraine is attacking them!

Nobody is saying that Tchaikovsky will never be played again, or that another orchestra won't want to play him. Just that that orchestra, at this time, didn't want to. And surely, even if you don't think the same yourself, you can understand that some members of the orchestra might see it differently to you.