{"id":64876,"date":"2025-03-01T17:46:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T22:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=64876"},"modified":"2025-03-01T17:46:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T22:46:02","slug":"i-felt-like-a-child-watching-a-horror-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=64876","title":{"rendered":"“I felt like a child watching a horror film.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I did and I do, but it wasn’t I who said that. It was Christian Tetzlaff<\/a>, a German violinist who is gifted in a way I’ve never encountered before in a musician, in all the years I’ve gone to concerts.<\/p>\n

All serious musicians are marvels. That’s why they’re up on that stage, making music. But Tetzlaff is the only one whose performances I get tickets for, not only for the music but for the musician playing it. Using merely four strings he somehow talks to us, tells us about life without words, which is I think what the composers he plays were intending when they wrote the music.<\/p>\n

So when Tetzlaff plays Bartok, he is sharing with us Bartok’s voice. It is intense and glorious — and far beyond my description of what I get from wordless music using the only tools I<\/em> have: words.<\/p>\n

I was, therefore, what the Brits call chuffed when in the New York Times this morning I saw in a headline that a renowned German violinist was canceling his spring U.S. tour because of what America has become. Even before I scrolled into the article, I knew it would be Christian Tetzlaff.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt like a child watching a horror film,\u201d he said in an interview.<\/em><\/p>\n

On Friday, Mr. Tetzlaff, 58, a renowned violinist who frequently performs in the United States, said that he was canceling an eight-city tour of the country with his quartet this spring \u2014 including a stop at Carnegie Hall \u2014 and that he was unlikely to perform again in America unless the government reversed course.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThere seems to be a quietness or denial about what\u2019s going on,\u201d he said. \u201cI feel utter anger. I cannot go on with this feeling inside. I cannot just go and play a tour of beautiful concerts.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

That is a perfect description of what I’m feeling today, as perfect as Tetzlaff’s music-making, which I won’t be hearing again live this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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