“We strongly encourage all young pianists of any nationality, but particularly those from Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus, to participate in the upcoming edition of the Busoni Competition.”
Bravo to the Busoni Piano Competition for this.
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Bravo to the Busoni Piano Competition for this.
busoni-mahler.eu/en/home-en/?fb…
Solidarity for Ukraine and support for all Ukrainians is the No. 1 priority surely. At the same time the collective moral punishment some arts and educational institutions are applying to ordinary Russians and Belarusians denying them scholarships or college places, is hideous
—especially when it comes from people who have the comfort of living in societies with free speech and democracy. It’s not so many steps from here to blaming all Muslims for 9/11 or interning all Germans and Japanese in World War II. Don’t go there please!
It shows little historical understanding of how it is to live in a dictatorship, how individual connections from the West kept Russians going in Soviet times.
These blanket bans are also counter-productive. They feed a PR narrative of victimhood and “Russophobia” which is one of the last arguments that the Russian government clings to – that Europe doesn’t actually believe in democracy and rights, it just “hates Russians.”
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