The American press did not notice the media-invented “boycott” of the Russian pianist Matsuev
The information circulated in the media about the alleged boycott of performances in the United States by the famous Russian pianist Denis Matsuev is nonsense.
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The musician himself spoke about this in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
“I didn’t want to comment on this absurdity at all, but for the second day I’ve been watching what’s happening in the media and I’m simply amazed,” Matsuev noted. – Ask anyone who was at my concert in Boston, and he will say that there were several people standing in front of the concert hall to whom no one paid any attention. Not a single publication in the American press even mentioned this incident. But our media have inflated this information, copy each other, and even the leading publications - as if everyone is just waiting for these words: “boycott”, “picket”, “protest”.
“I already had the same kind of story with a broken piano in Novosibirsk,” added the pianist. “The next morning after the concert, I woke up and got hundreds of calls: “What did you do with the piano, what happened?” It turns out that a Novosibirsk journalist who just wanted something “fried” wrote that I broke the piano during the concert. It happened that the piano tuner did not tighten the pedal properly, and it was dangling. After I played Rachmaninoff's Sonata, he came out and finished it off. The next day an article was published: Matsuev broke the piano, and senseless copying of stupidity began.”
The American press failed to notice the media-invented "boycott" of Russian pianist Matsuev.