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American composer and Academy Award nominee Philip Glass introduced that he’s pulling the world premiere of his Symphony No. 15, “Lincoln,” on the Trump Kennedy Heart, claiming there was a direct “battle” between his work and the establishment’s present management.
“Symphony No. 15 is a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, and the values of the Kennedy Heart at this time are in direct battle with the message of the Symphony,” Glass stated in an announcement on Tuesday. “Subsequently, I really feel an obligation to withdraw this Symphony premiere from the Kennedy Heart underneath its present management.”
“Lincoln” was initially going to be carried out on the Trump Kennedy Heart on June 12 and June 13. In accordance with The Washington Submit, the symphony was initially commissioned by the Nationwide Symphony Orchestra and the Kennedy Heart in 2022 earlier than dealing with a number of delays. It was later restored to the Heart’s schedule as a part of the “250 Years of Us” programming meant to honor the nation’s 250th anniversary.
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U.S. composer Philip Glass arrives on the forty first Annual Kennedy Heart Honors in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 2, 2018. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP by way of Getty Photos)
In a remark to Fox Information Digital, Roma Daravi, vp of public relations on the Trump Kennedy Heart, criticized the choice, suggesting that Glass was canceling on account of political stress.
“We have now no place for politics within the arts, and people calling for boycotts based mostly on politics are making the improper choice. We have now not cancelled a single present. Leftist activists are pushing artists to cancel, however the public needs artists to carry out and create — not cancel underneath stress from political insiders that profit from creating division,” Daravi stated.
Jean Davidson, govt director of the Nationwide Symphony Orchestra, additionally advised Fox Information Digital that the orchestra was not knowledgeable about this choice till the assertion from Glass was launched.
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“We have now nice admiration for Philip Glass and have been stunned to find out about his choice similtaneously the press,” Davidson stated.
New signage, The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Heart For The Performing Arts, is unveiled on the Kennedy Heart, Friday, Dec. 19, 2025, in Washington. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photograph)
Glass was beforehand honored on the Kennedy Heart in 2018 throughout President Donald Trump’s first time period in workplace.
Glass is one among a number of performers or entertainers who’ve introduced that they’d be canceling reveals on the Heart since Trump took over as chairman in Feb. 2025.
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In March, “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda introduced that he could be pulling a deliberate manufacturing of his musical in protest of Trump’s management, saying he was “not going to be a part of it.”
Further performers started canceling their reveals after the Kennedy Heart’s board voted unanimously to rename the establishment the “Trump–Kennedy Heart” in December.
President Donald Trump took over as chairman of the Kennedy Heart in February. (Getty Photos)
Kennedy Heart President Richard Grenell has dismissed the cancellations, saying the artists concerned have been booked underneath what he described because the earlier “far left management.”
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“The artists who at the moment are canceling reveals have been booked by the earlier far left management,” Grenell wrote on social media. “Their actions show that the earlier crew was extra involved about reserving far left political activists reasonably than artists prepared to carry out for everybody no matter their political opinions. Boycotting the Arts to indicate you assist the Arts is a type of derangement syndrome. The humanities are for everybody and the left is mad about it.”
