Conformity of academic musicians
Pianist Nikolai Medvedev in an interview with New Gazeta. Europe ” says : “The vast majority of musicians in Russia are very conformal. Actually, the system of musical education itself from childhood is built on obedience, on the dogma, on the subordination of the vertical. This accustoms many musicians, on the one hand, to be as if in the distance from society, and on the other, makes them unprincipled people. Perceiving politics as something that is given to us once and for all.