{"id":8028,"date":"2009-05-02T05:26:06","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T10:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=8028"},"modified":"2009-05-02T05:26:06","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T10:26:06","slug":"andrew-gumbel-polish-pianist-stops-show-with-anti-us-tirade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=8028","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Gumbel: Polish pianist stops show with anti-US tirade"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrew Gumbel, The Guardian<\/em>, 28 April 2009<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Photograph: Grzegorz Michalowski\/EPA\/Corbis<\/p><\/div>Krystian Zimerman, the great Polish concert pianist, is usually a man of few words. He doesn’t, as a rule, talk to the audience during performances. He says little or nothing in the press between his all-too-rare concert tours – not even about his habit of travelling everywhere with his own Steinway grand piano. He rarely grants them the pleasure of an encore.<\/p>\n

So he triggered more than the usual rumble of discomfort when he raised his voice in the closing stages of a recital at Los Angeles’ Disney Hall on Sunday night and announced he would no longer perform in the United States in protest against Washington’s military policies.<\/p>\n

“Get your hands off my country,” Zimerman told the stunned crowd in a denunciation of US plans to install a missile defence shield on Polish soil. Some people cheered, others yelled at him to shut up and keep playing. A few dozen walked out, some of them shouting obscenities.<\/p>\n

“Yes,” Zimerman responded with derision, “some people when they hear the word military start marching.”<\/p>\n

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