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Musicians announce boycott
Thirty-four of the world's leading musicians yesterday protested against the invasion of Czechoslovakia.
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The protest read: "The occupation of the Republic by the five nations of the Warsaw Pact is a violent contradiction of the humanitarian ideals we have as artists.
"Until all foreign soldiers have withdrawn from Czechoslovakian territory and the legal government of the C.S.S.R. is free to govern again, it is impossible for us to keep artistic relations with these five nations and Czechoslovakia."
It was signed by Claudio Abbado, Claudio Arrau, Daniel Barenboim, Clifford Curzon, Dean Dixon, Rudolf Firkusny, Marius Flothuis, Andor Foldes, Wolfgang Fortner, Pierre Fournier, Carlo-Maria Giulini, Friedrich Gulda, Bernard Haitink, Eugene Jochum, Paul Kletzki, Dr. Otto Klemperer, Rafael Kubelik, Ferdinand Leitner, Nikita Magaloff, Enrico Mainardi, Frank Martin.
Jean Martinon, Yehudi Menuhin, Nathan Milstein. Charles Munch, Jacqueline Du Pre, Fritz Rieger, Mario Rossi, Artur Rubinstein, Wolfgang von Schneiderhan, Georg Solti, Isaac Stern, Igor Stravinsky, and Sir William Walton.
The Times
27.8.1968.
The Soul Cannot be Manacled by Politics
It's a long time since people called writers the conscience of the nation, and probably no one ever talked about musicians in this way. It is therefore all the rarer to meet a musician--one of the most remarkable this country has ever produced--for whom the voice of conscience has been more important than anything else. This is abundantly clear from the many...
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