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BY JENNIFER HASSANJust before Russia began its
invasion, reports were swirling
that troops were closing in on
Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-larg-
est city. Sirens were sounding
overhead. People were attempt-
ing to flee.
Amid the uncertainty and cha-
os last Thursday, a young boy in
the city sat down at a glossy
white piano in a hotel lobby and
began to play.
Washington Post video jour-
nalist Whitney Leaming, who is
on the ground in Ukraine, heard
the sound from several floors
above. She ventured out into the
hallway to hear more. She pulled
out her video camera, filming as
he played against a backdrop of
swirly beige carpet below. The
melodies reminded her of her
mother’s own piano playing
when she was a baby and could
not sleep.
Leaming’s video was shared to
The Post’s Instagram account,
where thousands of people left
comments, many calling the
footage “heartbreaking.” To date,
the footage has been viewed on
Instagram almost 9 million
times.
Philip Glass and Paul Leon-
ard-Morgan, the composers of
the music, could never have
imagined that the piece would be
the soundtrack to a war.
“I never thought of this music
as a political piece, but it has
become one,” Glass, 85, one of the
most famous and most-per-
formed of living composers, said
in a statement Tuesday.
The piece, titled “Walk to
School,” was written in 2020 and
is featured on the soundtrack of
the science fiction drama televi-
sion series “Tales from the Loop”
on Amazon Prime.Glass said living in the East
Village of New York, which he
said is broadly known as “Little
Ukraine” because of the large
number of Ukrainians there, has
broadened his knowledge of
their culture and his love for its
people.
“I have come to know and
become friends with many of
my Ukrainian neighbors,” he
said. “I sympathize with them,
their families, and all the inno-
cent citizens and people of
Ukraine. They are living
through difficulties we all hope
to never face.”
Scottish-born Leonard-Mor-
gan, 48, who now lives in Los
Angeles, said the young boy’s
piano playing “in the face of
adversity” moved him to tears.
“I saw the clip and was moved
beyond words that someone
could find escapism in our music
at this horrific time in their life,”he told The Washington Post on
Monday.
While he did not know if the
boy was “finding solace or hope”
in the song, he considered it
powerful that music can “tran-
scend all boundaries” and evoke
emotion.
“Music can affect each of us
personally, but it can also reach a
collective conscience,” Leonard-
Morgan said.
Days earlier, Leonard-Morgan
went on Twitter and shared the
video of the boy’s piano playing,
writing: “I can’t believe this is
happening.” He shared emoji of a
broken heart.
Almost one week after it was
recorded, the boy in Ukraine who
played the piano has not yet been
publicly identified.
“We left [the hotel] minutes
later to go out and report,”
Leaming said. “I never saw the
family again.”A Ukrainian boy, a piano and an unexpected soundtrack for the Russian attack
WHITNEY LEAMING/THE WASHINGTON POST
Washington Post video journalist Whitney Leaming recorded a
Ukrainian youth’s impromptu recital in a hotel lobby in Kharkiv.BY TIMOTHY BELLARussian conductor Valery Ger-
giev was fired from the Munich
Philharmonic orchestra on Tues-
day because he supports Russian
President Vladimir Putin and has
not rejected Russia’s invasion of
Ukraine, the German city’s mayor
said.
Munich Mayor Dieter Reiter
said in a news release that the
decision came after he issued an
ultimatum to the 68-year-old Rus-
sian conductor to reject the inva-
sion. When Gergiev, a close friend
of Putin, did not respond by Mon-
day, Reiter said he was left with no
choice but to dismiss the conduc-
tor.
“I had expected him to rethink
and revise his very positive assess-
ment of the Russian leader,” Reiter
said. “After this didn’t occur, the
only option is the immediate sev-
erance of ties.”
The move to dismiss Gergiev, a
prominent classical music con-
ductor who has led the Munich
Philharmonic since the 2015-16
season, follows a stretch of wide-
spread anger toward the conduc-
tor for his refusal to denounce
Putin. Some of Gergiev’s concerts
have been canceled, and he’s been
asked to resign from honorary
positions because he has not spo-
ken out against the invasion.
Marcus Felsner, Gergiev’s man-
ager, announced Sunday he was
dropping his client for backing
Putin. Felsner, who described Ger-
giev as “the greatest conductor
alive and an extraordinary human
being with a profound sense of
decency,” said to the Guardian
that the conductor would not and
cannot “publicly end his long-ex-
pressed support for a regime that
has come to commit such crimes.”
“In the light of the criminal war
waged by the Russian regime
against the democratic and inde-pendent nation of Ukraine, and
against the European open society
as a whole, it has become impossi-
ble for us, and clearly unwelcome,
to defend the interests of Maestro
Gergiev,” Felsner said in a state-
ment, noting the decision to drop
the conductor was “the saddest
day of my professional life.”
Gergiev did not immediatelyrespond to a request for comment
on Tuesday. He has yet to speak
publicly about Russia’s invasion.
The announcement comes as
Russian forces gathered menac-
ing strength Tuesday. While
Ukrainian soldiers and ad hoc ci-
vilian militias have provided tena-
cious defense of major cities, a
Russian projectile appeared tostrike near Kharkiv’s administra-
tion building and a convoy of
tanks, troop carriers and artillery
more than 40 miles long threat-
ened Kyiv. Five hours of talks be-
tween Russian and Ukrainian del-
egations near Belarus’s border on
Monday failed to yield a break-
through, with the two sides agree-
ing only to continue discussions
in coming days.
The Moscow-born Gergiev is a
star maestro who regularly packs
opera houses and concert halls.
He has made no secret of his bond
with Putin, whom he has known
for decades. The conductor has
endorsed Putin’s presidential
campaigns and sided with the
Russian leader in denouncing the
band Pussy Riot, which had spo-
ken out against Putin’s control
over the nation’s culture.
In addition to being the long-
time artistic director of the Mari-
insky Theater in St. Petersburg,
Gergiev was honored by Putin in
2013 as an official “Hero of Labor,”
the Atlantic reported. That same
year, at the opening ceremonies of
a million dollar-expansion to the
Mariinsky Theater, Putin offered a
birthday toast to Gergiev, who had
just turned 60, according to the
New Yorker.
In 2014, Gergiev was among
those who signed a letter support-
ing Russia’s annexation of Crimea
from Ukraine. He also conducted
a 2016 concert in front of Russian
soldiers in the Syrian city of
Palmyra shortly after it was recap-
tured from the Islamic State, ac-cording to the BBC.
The classical music world has
responded to Gergiev’s recent in-
action. The Verbier Festival in
Switzerland confirmed that Ger-
giev had resigned as music direc-
tor at its request. He has been
dropped by the Vienna Philhar-
monic’s five-concert tour in the
United States, the Edinburgh In-
ternational Festival, and the Fest-
spielhaus theater in Germany. Mi-
lan Mayor Giuseppe Sala told re-
porters Monday that Gergiev
would no longer conduct “The
Queen of Spades” at the La Scala
theater.
“I don’t think he will be there, I
think at this point we can rule it
out,” said Sala, who is also La Scala
board chairman, according to Re-
uters. When asked about whether
Gergiev responded to La Scala’s
request for him to speak out about
the invasion, Sala said, “The mae-
stro did not reply to us.”
The Rotterdam Philharmonic
Orchestra has also indicated it
would drop Gergiev if he contin-
ued to support Putin. A Septem-
ber festival he was expected to
conduct would be canceled if he
did not speak out against the inva-
sion, the orchestra said.
Reiter, the Munich mayor, not-
ed that he terminated Gergiev’s
contract three years before his
deal was set to expire.
“With immediate effect, there
will be no further concerts by the
Munich Philharmonic Orchestra
under his direction,” he said in a
statement.Putin-friendly conductor Valery Gergiev fired by the Munich Philharmonic
ROBERT GHEMENT/EPA-EFE/SHUTTERSTOCK
Valery Gergiev, pictured conducting the Munich Philharmonic last year, was fired by the orchestra on
Tuesday, the latest o f gigs he’s lost because of his support for Russian President Vladimir Putin.