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February 08, 2005
The free and the brave
If I ever thought it was ages ago humming La Marseillaise was enough to get your head chopped off, I thought wrong. Although Russian pianist Olga Skiba didn't lose her head she was, according to the BBC, suspended for three weeks by the Russian Duma for playing the wrong melody.
Skiba was hired by the Duma to play Mozart and Chopin during lunch, but she was frequently asked to play popular tunes as well. The Godfather tune wasn't a problem, but the 1920 prison-chanson Murka was.
The in Russia well-known song tells the story of a gangster who discovers his girlfriend is a Bolshevist undercover agent and kills her for that.
Posted by Renske at 15:29 UTC | permanent link