Performers had already begun withdrawing from 'From Chopin to Gershwin,' sponsored by an organization with ties to Gazeta Polska, a Polish magazine claiming the LGBT rights movement has 'all the features of a totalitarian ideology.'
A concert at Carnegie Hall has been canceled after complaints it had ties to an anti-LGBT magazine from Poland.
The Gazeta Polska Community of America claims it is independent from the Polish publication, but its Facebook page says its supported by the magazine's editorial board.Artists slated to perform in"From Chopin to Gershwin" had already begun to pull out by the time Carnegie Hall removed the event from its calendar on Saturday.of his decision to withdraw on July 26.
"To walk out on that [Carnegie Hall] stage is a great honor, to be asked to do it is a great honor," pianist Paul Bisaccia, who is openly gay and also backed out,."To find out that the sponsor is someone who would besmirch this honor is very depressing and saddening to me."
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