Chapter 1: What sparked the mass resignations of performers at the Kennedy Center?
Klaas Olssonin asiakaskuulutus. Meillä on uutinen, joka koskee kaikkia asiakaitamme. Viikko kaksi ja kolme eivät ole vuoden synkimmät viikot. Päinvastoin tarjoamme nyt 30 prosentin alennuksen Northlightin kato- ja pöytävalaisimista. Ja kaiken lisäksi lampuista miinus 20 prosenttia. Klaas Olsson.
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Now about a dozen performers have looked at Donald Trump and his phony board at the Kennedy Center, which he vandalized and calls the Trump Kennedy Center unlawfully. And these performers are saying, we quit.
We are not going to be performing for this regime. Also, attendance is down so much. It's like no one's even showing up to this place, this propaganda vandalized center by this Trump regime. So here's the latest right here.
Washington National Opera decided on Friday to move out of its longtime home at the Kennedy Center. And they've been at the Kennedy Center since the 1970s. And they're saying goodbye there. Now we have a list.
of at least 10 additional acts that have cancelled at the Kennedy Center. Hamilton, of course, the Broadway musical, Chuck Redd, the leader of the Kennedy Center's annual Jazz Jams Christmas, the Cookers, the Jazz Supergroup cancelled a pair of shows, Stephen Schwartz, the Wicked composer, withdrew as host of the Washington National Opera Gala, set for May 16th,
You have Issa Rae, The Insecure Star, canceled a sold-out March 16, 2025 stop. Bella Fleck canceled a trio of concerts with the National Sympathy Orchestra scheduled for February 2025. Rhiannon Giddens, the Grammy-winning musician, canceled the May 11, 2025 concert at the Kennedy Center. Low Cut Connie, the Philadelphia Rockers, called off a February 2025 performance.
Peter Wolff, Christy Lee, Doug Barone, Balloon, Amanda Ruhm ja muut. Ja sitten tietysti aiemmin vuoden aikana sinulla oli Ben Folds, joka aloitettiin aloittamaan februarissa taustavirtajana Kennedy Centerissä. Shonda Rhimes, Renee Fleming ja muut. Ja muistatko, voit muistaa, että keskustelimme Bena Folda februarissa, kun hän pysähtyi juuri silloin, kun Trumpin regiimi
He sanoivat, että he olisivat muuttaneet puolueen ja he olisivat intervenoineet heidän propagandaansa. Hän sanoi, että hän on lähtenyt. Hän pysähtyi National Symphony Orchestraista, kun Trumpi pysähtyi keskustelun. Hän sanoi, että sen takia, että Kennedy Centerin kehitykset olivat todennäköisiä tänään, hän pysähtyi National Symphony Orchestraista. Ei minulle.
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Chapter 2: How did Ben Folds respond to his own resignation from the Kennedy Center?
Nyt haluan laittaa esiin Ben Folden, amerikkalaisen taistelijan, taistelijan ja taistelijan. Ben Folden, on hienoa, että olet takaisin Mitustouch-networkissa. Olemme keskustelleet sinua, kun olit valmistunut taistelijapäällikkönä National Symphony Orchestraissa keväällä. Paljon on tapahtunut viimeisestä keskustelusta. Puhu meille siitä, mitä näet nyt Trumpin vandalisoinnista. Miten käsittelee kaikki tämä?
It's really sad. The Kennedy Center had so many great missions, and it is a memorial as well. It's as close to sacred stuff as you can get for our federal government. But aside from that, it really is playing out roughly the way that it felt it would for me a year ago. En ole sanonut, että ymmärsin, miten tapahtumat tapahtuivat, mutta se oli selkeästi ensimmäinen asia,
uh of uh it was it was an authoritarian move it was an authoritarian first first step and like obviously they weren't going to start by trying to steamroller late night comedians they thought they would run over us first and that's that's much easier because it's close to home and they know what they're you know how to do it um but now the things that are happening are no surprise because
Se ei ollut vain häneltä. Mielestäni ihmiset ymmärrettävät, että se ei ollut vain häneltä, joka halusi kirjoittaa bansseja tai jotain. Se oli ymmärrettävä hallitukset ja taiteet. Ja sitten sieltä...
Se on käsitystä. Se on käsitystä. Sitten jatketaan järjestelmään. Stephen Colbertin, Jimmy Kimmelin 60 minuutin jälkeen jatketaan käsittämään. Olin syvällä, kun lopetin. Tiedin, että he pysyvät järjestelmään. Ei kuitenkaan, että he päättivät.
had any experience in arts administration, but that was never the point. Point was to take that, run over it and move on. So it's rotting over, you know, next to the Potomac in the moment. And it's like, it's just sad, you know.
One of the things that we talked about back in February was how the Kennedy Center was actually a place where people who fled repressive regimes, whose artistic endeavors and pursuits were harmed and squashed by authoritarians, could play the National Symphony Orchestra. You talked about the history of some of these composers here who played at the Kennedy Center.
as a celebration of freedom that they found in the United States. And so you, as a student of history, saw the moment that Donald Trump was doing what he did with that board. You said, this is just authoritarian 101. Talk to us about that unique history. Well, the National Symphony Orchestra, who of course was an orchestra before the Kennedy Center was there, they're a separate entity. They're just trapped in the building right now.
Mutta national symphony orchestra, yksi ensimmäisistä osallistujista oli Rostropovich. Hänen nimi on niin pitkä, että kaikki kutsuvat hänet slavaan. Hän oli Shostakovich, suomalainen Dmitri Shostakovich, suomalainen komponistti. Hän oli periaatteessa oikeanpäin ihminen, mahtava kielistys ja mahtava sopimus.
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Chapter 3: What historical significance does the Kennedy Center hold for artists?
Mitä se kertoo sinulle, kun näet resigointeja ja toisia ihmisiä pysyvät? Kaikki ovat olleet oman aikansa. En välttämättä välttämättä välttämättä välttämättä välttämättä.
Olet tullut paikalle, kun olit, koska näit, mitä tapahtuu, ja opiskelit historiaa niin. Mitä te teette siitä, mitä tapahtuu, erityisesti kun se on Washingtonin kansainvälinen opera, joka on ollut siellä 50 vuotta. Mitä sanoisit toisille yksilöille, jotka sopivat, mutta eivät ole ystäviä, eivätkä he välttämättä ole yllättyneet Rick Grinnellin puolesta?
How do you navigate this? First, what does it say to you about the resignations? How do you think people navigate it? Well, it's tricky because it's really different for everybody. I mean, for instance, my friends in the National Symphony Orchestra, some of them have varying views about how they should be handling this, but nobody's happy or inspired by it. They're really worried about their jobs and they're in a different position than me. I was in a position to draw attention to this, and I knew that as a curator,
ettei ole mitään tapaa, jotta voisin kirjoittaa tarkemmin ja turvallisesti. En voi tuoda taiteilijoita, jotka voivat olla erilaisia näkökulmia kuin Rick Grinnell tai Trump. En voi tuoda niitä ihmisiä esiin. Katsokaa, heillä oli Yasmin Williams,
you know, booed that they're paid to do it. So yeah, I think that everyone has to find their own space there. I personally wouldn't touch the place while it's nuclear right now, because I don't think that you're really, I wouldn't feel safe playing there.
i wouldn't think that i was in good hands i wouldn't think people are going to show up even if i'm just going to be a total capitalist about it it's like yeah let the market speak how's the kennedy center doing oops don't play there that venue that venue can't draw a crowd so they don't know what they're doing there so um i don't see any reason to be there now you know like an organization like the the uh the opera
They have a board. They have a whole kind of contracts with them. We'll see what happens. But the individuals that work for them are just people trying to make a living in the arts. And they just got to show up at work. And it's really, really unfortunate. It's really sad. It makes me sad for all of them.
As a student of history, when Trump won and started these pronouncements, it seemed it was going in a direction, but recognizing what it meant when he had his eye on the Kennedy Center, you were able to say that there was something specific about this
näkökulma kulttuurista ympäristöä, jonka aiemmat johtajat ovat johtaneet, ja hänellä on se, että hän on se, että hän on se, että hän on se, että hän on se, että hän have bent and many have broken there's resiliency in the people so how do you see where we are kind of right now january mid to beginning of january 2026 and what do you want to see
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Chapter 4: How do artists navigate their careers amidst political turmoil?
Mielestäni taiteilijat ovat samaa mieltä kuin vuoden aiemmin. Mielestäni taiteilijan on oltava oikeus kertoa itselleen.
It's a little bit sometimes like reportage. It's a little bit like journalism. I think that that is what artists need to do right now, while we still can't. Obviously, you don't have to do it at the Kennedy Center. It was an amazing place with an amazing mission and all kinds of access to facilities. It was beautiful. By the way, it used to make some money.
it's like not run well but the artist right now we should all be expressing ourselves with no there was a time uh i think and i came up in this era of the 90s this sort of shut up and sing era where you're worried you're going to alienate your artist i think right now is the time to absolutely stand up and and express yourself if that's political do it if it's social
do it if it's what you love for lunch hey that's fine too but be honest in your reporting because you may not have that luxury if we keep going like we're going better to do it now better to show up at the protest now than have to show up in the protest in a year and worried about getting you know jailed and killed it's now is the time to to and the artist's job has always been to be a little ahead of the curve
where things are going, the artist can explain that in terms that no one else is allowed to. It doesn't have to make sense.
It has to feel right. And that's what moves people. And the reason the arts are important, and all these people said they weren't important, that we're on the right side of the government. Arts don't matter, we don't need to fund it. Boy, they sure thought it was important when it came to the Kennedy Center. They took that over in like one month. So the arts are important, and the artist is really needed right now.
Näen, että olet osa Grand Park Music Festivalissa Chikagossa. Olet soittanut muissa paikoissa, joissa olet antanut ihmisille todennäköisyyttä. Se, että Trumpin regiumi vaikuttaa. Ennen kuin menemme, onko muuta, mitä haluaisit kertoa?
En, en. Luulen, että kun National Symphony Orchestra on mahdollisuus soittaa Wolf Trapin kanssa ja toisissa soittamissa, haluaisin todellakin nähdä ihmisiä DC-alueella, jotka tukevat sitä. National Symphony Orchestra ei ole Kennedy Centerissä. He ovat kansainväliset musiikkialaiset maassa, ja he ovat yleensä pysähtyneet sisällä rakennuksessa, jossa joku on painannut nimensä ulkopuolelle. Ei kukaan näyttänyt soittamista.
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