Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.misty.com!news-vm.kithrup.com!kithrup.com!djheydt From: djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) Subject: Re: CRIT awards code of conduct Message-ID: Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2024 01:31:21 GMT References: Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd. X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 1513 Lines: 22 In article , Gary McGath wrote: >On 7/3/24 12:15 PM, Cryptoengineer wrote: > >> Its perhaps interesting to compare this to moves to >> exclude Russians from many competitions, out of (wholly >> justified) horror at the invasion of Ukraine. >> > >Tchaikovsky has been removed from some concerts for that reason. Since >he died before the invasion started, not to mention before Putin was >born, it's quite a stretch to blame him. [Hal Heydt] I've been wondering if organizations were doing that. Pretty much all of the classical Russian composers pre-date Putin, and many pre-date the Soviet Union. I'd rather hate to see Borodin's "In the Steppes of Central Asia" or any number of Rimsky-Korasakhov's works dropped from being played (just to cite a couple of examples). The trend doesn't seem to have affected my local classical station (KDFC), though.