According to Norman Lebrecht's ever-informative "Slipped Disc" blog at ArtsJournal, the Russian superstar pianist Evgeny Kissin will become an Israeli citizen on Saturday, December 7, 2013. He has received the personal backing of another prominent Russian (now leading Israeli politician), Natan Sharansky.
It is no great surprise as Kissin, who currently lives in the U.K. and is a British citizen, has been very vocal and articulate in his support for Israel over the past few years. But he joins the Jewish state at a time when, musically, they seem to be going through a second golden period--the first being that magical time when talents of the magnitude of Pinchas Zukerman, Daniel Barenboim, Mischa Maisky and Itzhak Perlman poured out of that little country (Barenboim, of course, having gone to Israel from Argentina).
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