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Famed Composer Philip Glass Removes His “Lincoln” Symphony Premiere from the Kennedy Center: Values Conflict

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There’s not much left on the Kennedy Center schedule.

Famed composer Philip Glass is now removing the premiere of his “Lincoln” Symphony from the Center. He says the values of Lincoln are in direct conflict with those of the new Kennedy Center.

At this point, Glass is a straggler in the Kennedy Center exodus. Pretty much everything that was scheduled has been cancelled. The Washington National Opera Company is gone. Everyone from Renee Fleming to “Hamilton” has left the building.

Kennedy Center chief Richard — Tricky Dick — Grenell — is barely on the premises. He’s become the Kristi Noem of the arts. Soon he’ll be hosting wrestling matches in the Melania Trump Opera House.

At this point, there’s more action on the fake www.trumpkennedycenter.org than on the real site! They’d be smart to book outright racist Christian country singer Natasha Owens!

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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