I have an old LP on the turntable now, a 1985 Berlin Philharmonic performance of Tchaikovsky‘s 1812 Overture. Recorded almost 40 years before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, almost 40 years after Germany‘s siege of Leningrad, the Berlin Wall still standing, no end in sight, at the height of the Cold War. Great Russian music, […]
Anti-Russian Hatred Helps No One; Racism is Racism
While there is chaos and violence along the Russian-Ukrainian border halfway around the world from the United States, Russians in America are also feeling pressure from world events. Russian-owned businesses in our own country are beginning to feel the backlash. Ugly examples of anti-Russian racism are surfacing — and this, in the very country that prides […]