To the editor: In mild of our autocrat-in-chief’s identify change of the Kennedy Heart, I’d implore Gianandrea Noseda, music director of the Nationwide Symphony Orchestra, and Francesca Zambello, inventive director of the Washington Nationwide Opera, to vociferously denounce this transfer and assert the necessity for inventive establishments to balk on the interference of political whims (“Kennedy Heart board votes unanimously to rename venue Trump Kennedy Heart,” Dec. 18).
I had the chance to work with each of those people in my capability as a member of the music employees of the Los Angeles Opera; they commanded respect for his or her superior craft and gave the impression to be individuals of integrity.
If Congress stays recumbent of their responsibility to observe oversight, we’d like these with the suitable platform to take a stand.
Mark Robson, Los Angeles
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To the editor: The present occupant of the White Home is set to depart his mark on all the things. From his revamp of the Individuals’s Home into basically a mirror picture of Mar-a-Lago to placing his identify on a peace institute whose board and employees he gutted, it by no means ends. Now, the Kennedy Heart will probably be including his identify to the venue. And did anybody doubt that Trump’s identify would come first?
Plus, we nonetheless have the “Arc de Trump” to sit up for. And consider extra naming prospects within the coming years — perhaps the Trump-Lincoln Memorial?
The identify change that may in all probability take advantage of sense can be the constructing that homes the Supreme Courtroom, particularly for the reason that conservative justices haven’t been capable of finding any limits to his government powers.
Janet Cerswell, Rancho Cucamonga
