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The music director of the Cleveland Orchestra has written a commentary on recent events for the Backstage Classical site. In it, the Austrian conductor spoke out strongly against artist boycotts, arguing that ‘culture must remain […]

A video published by the widow of Alexei Navalny, murdered in a Putin prison, has issued a video calling on the EU to maintain its ban on the Putin conductor Valery Gergiev. It describes Gergiev […]

Morley College, an adult education institute that once gave employment to German-Jewish refugees, has stepped in to ban a concert of pro-Palestine new music with such titles as ‘Salute to the Resistance’ and ‘Blood United […]