Whatever one may think about Tchaikovsky's music, or neuroses, one should look at his overall role in building Russian culture. 17, composed 1873, is a celebration of Ukrainian folk music, and even performed it in a concert for Ukraine. This discovery was echoed in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, when someone realized that Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. He argued: “Tchaikovsky, like Shakespeare, like Joan of Arc, like Christ, does not belong to one specific people, he belongs to the whole world.” He also noted that Tchaikovsky even came from a family of Zaporozhzhian Cossacks (in Ukraine), that he “treated Ukraine with incredible love” and that he used motifs from Ukrainian folk music in some of his works. Yury Rybchinsky, a prominent Ukrainian songwriter and member of the Academy’s supervisory board said: “Governments and armies can fight, but cultures can never fight each other”. On June 16, 2022, the Pyotr Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine in Kiev announced that it will not remove Tchaikovsky’s name from their Academy. This is beyond travesty-it is sheer idiocy.īut the idiocy was fortunately curtailed in Ukraine itself. In particular, they banned the work of Russian composer, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (even the Tchaikovsky Piano Competition was banned). In the past months, we saw the travesty of institutions and symphony orchestras banning Russian music under the rubric of "Free Ukraine".
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