Ben Folds
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 31 May
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The MeidasTouch Podcast · Ben Folds Responds to Performers Leaving Kennedy Center · 11 Jan 2026
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They're a separate entity.
They're just trapped in the building right now.
um but the the national symphony orchestra one of the first directors of the orchestra uh was rostropovich uh his name is so long that everyone just calls him slava so uh and um he was he was uh uh shostakovich was famous dmitry shostakovich famous composer he was basically his right hand man an incredible cellist and a great conductor
And he fled the Soviet Union.
And he found himself the director of the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center.
And, you know, like his homie Shostakovich, Shostakovich was constantly in danger of being arrested, his friends being arrested, tortured, killed.
because he was trying to make artistic stands.
So what you know when you see, you know, a place being taken over like that, you can think about what Slavoj would have thought coming from the USSR and being able to express himself
being able to play his friend's music, Shostakovich there, without being threatened because the government had no say, politics, government, dictator has no say over the arts.
You leave that alone.
That's for the people.
When they want to take that over,
That's just propaganda.
And so that is what made me sick to begin with.
And nothing that's unfolding now seems surprising.
Putting Trump's name on the place, it is.
It's like, yeah, it's like he's...
you know, spray painted his name on the side of it, but it's, it's still the center.
It was, it's just being held hostage at the moment.
And I'm kind of, in some ways, I think it's like, it reminds me of the picture, the photograph of, or the footage of Hitler in front of the Eiffel tower.
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