Music Chat: Artists Really DON'T Matter, or, Gergiev's Ass Gets Canned

Dumping conductor Valery Gergiev for his support of Vladimir Putin and his barbaric invasion of Ukraine was a no-brainer. More interesting, to me anyway, is that fact that this "painful" decision for so many performing arts organization will make no difference at all because, as I've long maintained, most classical artists just don't matter.