{"id":7164,"date":"2015-04-09T06:28:38","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T11:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7164"},"modified":"2015-04-09T06:28:38","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T11:28:38","slug":"canadian-orchestra-drops-ukraine-born-pianist-valentina-lisitsa-over-anti-kiev-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7164","title":{"rendered":"Canadian orchestra drops Ukraine-born pianist Valentina Lisitsa over anti-Kiev posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/247297-canada-orchestra-pianist-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\">Canadian orchestra drops Ukraine-born pianist Valentina Lisitsa over anti-Kiev posts<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A Ukrainian-born pianist was barred from playing at Canada\u2019s Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) for expressing views on the situation in Ukraine via Twitter, according to the soloist herself. The move led to a social media storm tagged #LetValentinaPlay.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/247001-ukraine-army-adviser-yarosh\" target=\"_blank\">READ MORE: Ukraine\u2019s neo-Nazi leader becomes top military adviser, legalizes fighters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The orchestra has officially announced its decision to drop pianist Valentina Lisitsa from its Rachmaninoff Concerto #2 program earlier this week. TSO President and CEO Jeff Melanson cited\u00a0<em>\u201congoing accusations of deeply offensive language by Ukrainian media outlets,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0adding that Lisitsa\u2019s\u00a0<em>\u201cprovocative comments\u201d<\/em>\u00a0had allegedly\u00a0<em>\u201covershadowed past performances.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the statement, Melanson seems to be referring to Lisitsa\u2019s Twitter posts, in which she expresses her views on the situation in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Lisitsa turned to Facebook on Monday with a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ValentinaLisitsa\/photos\/a.229765710457954.36991.229319540502571\/623464897754698\/?type=1\">plea<\/a>, asking her fans for support to\u00a0<em>\u201ctell Toronto Symphony that music can\u2019t be silenced.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSomeone in the orchestra top management, likely after the pressure from a small but aggressive lobby claiming to represent Ukrainian community, has made a decision that I should not be allowed to play,\u201d<\/em>she wrote, referring to her TSO performances on Wednesday and Thursday.\u00a0<em>\u201cI don\u2019t even know who my accusers are, I am kept in the dark about it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian orchestra drops Ukraine-born pianist Valentina Lisitsa over anti-Kiev posts A Ukrainian-born pianist was barred from playing at Canada\u2019s Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) for expressing views on the situation in Ukraine via Twitter, according to the soloist herself. The move led to a social media storm tagged #LetValentinaPlay. READ MORE: Ukraine\u2019s neo-Nazi leader becomes top [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[103,1493,4686,4683,4684,819,821,4685],"class_list":["post-7164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-canada","tag-facebook","tag-jeff-melanson","tag-toronto-symphony-orchestra","tag-tso","tag-twitter","tag-ukraine","tag-valentina-lisitsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7165,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7164\/revisions\/7165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}