my guest is the world renowned soviet born conductor semyon bychkov. is art the loser when politics takes centre stage? semyon bychkovjoins me now. welcome to hardtalk. thank you. you are like all of the great musical maestros, you re peripatetic, your career takes you all around the world, you are constantly travelling. is there one place you can point to and say that has done the most to define you as a person and an artist? no, i don t think so. maybe because my destiny made it so that i was born in russia. i lived there 22 years before emigrating to america. leningrad was the city, when it was called leningrad. leningrad today, st petersburg. so the dna, the roots are there, have always been, always will be. but then what happens is that i come to america, i live five years, my first five years, in new york, and then i conduct grand rapid symphony in michigan, buffalo philharmonic, so altogether i think, what, 13, 14 years of life in america, becoming us citizen, having
what a great symbol of a fight for freedom. perhaps not the fight for freedom in 1776 but in 1836. that was the 78 army band performing america the beautiful from the alamo, where texas fought for their independence several decades after the united states of america established our independence. happy fourth of july, welcome to fox & friends. lawrence jones, rachel campos duffy right here in fox square in new york city. good morning to both of you. these two are fist pumping about this coming from the alamo. i saw it was in san antonio, texas, but i didn t get it was the alamo. i would ve changed my pin on will do it later on. rachel: first of all look at our beautiful background here. thank just a great way to bring in the fourth of july for all of you. we had a great weekend at west point. and here we are and where joined by you, lawrence. lawrence: thank you for having me. it is beautiful because there is often so many things we can criticize with going o
to be banned. now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. russia s war on ukraine has turned culture into a battleground in countries supportive of ukraine s resistance to putin s invasion, some russian artists, musicians and dancers have been stripped of their platforms or they ve been asked to denounce russia s military aggression. when does solidarity turn into censorship? my guest is the world renowned soviet born conductor semyon bychkov. is art the loser when politics takes centre stage? semyon bychkovjoins me now, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. you are like all of the great musical maestros, you re peripatetic, your career takes you all around the world, you are constantly travelling. is there one place you can point to and say that has done the most to define you as a person and an artist? no, i don t think so, maybe because my destiny made it so that i was born in russia. i lived there 22 years before emigrating to america. leningrad was a ci
so mj, we know the biden administration has been debate thg plan for months. why did they decide to do it? this is an announcement that has been in the works for so many months now, and the white house officially confirming earlier today some key details cnn reported earlier this week. let me walk you through those top headlines you just mentioned. as you said, $10,000 in debt forgive ness for people who make less than $125,000 a year, and then if you are a pell grant recipient, that amount goes up to $20,000. there is also going to be a pause that currently exists for loan payments for people. that was set to expire, remember, on august 31st. that is being extended one final time until the end of this year, and that s how people who are going to be paying back loans, that payment is going to be capped at 5% of their monthly income. now, as with a lot of policy announcements that come out of this white house, this doesn t have everything that some democrats and some advocat
to denounce russia s military aggression. when does solidarity turn into censorship? my guest is the world renowned soviet born conductor semyon bychkov. is art the loser when politics takes centre stage? semyon bychkovjoins me now, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. you are like all of the great musical maestros, you re peripatetic, your career takes you all around the world, you are constantly travelling. is there one place you can point to and say that has done the most to define you as a person and an artist? no, i don t think so, maybe because my destiny made it so that i was born in russia. i lived there 22 years before emigrating to america. leningrad was a city, when it was called leningrad. leningrad today, st petersburg. the dna, the roots are there, i ve always been, always will be. but then what happens is that i come to america, i live five years, my first five years in new york, and then i conduct grand rapid symphony in michigan, and buffalo philharmonic, so alt