{"id":2255345,"date":"2026-01-28T22:17:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T22:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2255345"},"modified":"2026-01-28T22:17:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T22:17:06","slug":"iconic-composer-philip-glass-cancels-premiere-at-kennedy-center-in-response-to-trumps-renaming-of-facility-i-feel-an-obligation-to-withdraw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/iconic-composer-philip-glass-cancels-premiere-at-kennedy-center-in-response-to-trumps-renaming-of-facility-i-feel-an-obligation-to-withdraw\/","title":{"rendered":"Iconic Composer Philip Glass Cancels Premiere At Kennedy Center In Response To Trump\u2019s Renaming Of Facility: \u2018I Feel An Obligation To Withdraw\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On Tuesday, legendary composer Philip Glass<\/a> announced that his upcoming Abraham Lincoln<\/a>-inspired symphony would no longer premiere at the Kennedy Center, citing a conflict between the arts institution\u2019s board and the message behind art.<\/p>\n

\u201cSymphony No. 15 is a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, and the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message of the Symphony,\u201d Glass<\/a> wrote in a statement posted to Instagram<\/a>. \u201cTherefore, I feel an obligation to withdraw this Symphony premiere from the Kennedy Center under its current leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n

Glass, 88, joins an extensive list of artists who cancelled their performances in response to President Donald Trump<\/a>\u2018s control of the center…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, legendary composer Philip Glass announced that his upcoming Abraham Lincoln-inspired symphony would no longer premiere at the Kennedy Center, citing a conflict between the arts institution\u2019s board and the message behind art. \u201cSymphony No. 15 is a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, and the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2255346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2255345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Iconic-Composer-Philip-Glass-Cancels-Premiere-At-Kennedy-Center-In.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2255345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2255347,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255345\/revisions\/2255347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2255346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2255345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2255345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2255345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}