So Long, Zimerman

Pianist Krystian Zimerman says people in the U.S. have no clue. He will shun the United States in protest. No more concerts for us.

On stage in Los Angeles, Zimerman complained about Guantanamo Bay, about the war in Iraq (“a war based on lies”), and about U.S. policy toward his home country of Poland. “Get your hands off my country,” he said.

Obama’s election apparently failed to mollify him:

Lately, he’d seemed pleased with the direction the United States has taken. During a performance Friday at Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall, he delighted his Bay Area audience by making sly reference to his approval of Barack Obama in the White House.

We of course knew the Bay Area took delight in Obama, but who knew they appreciated slyness?

And so, the incoherent Zimerman will presumably continue to perform in those countries with a history of marching across Poland, each time leaving it in ruins, in order to chastise the only country that made an effective stand against its oppression.

The report makes no mention of whether he intends to pull his CDs from the shelves and forego other income derived from the clueless Americans, but you might want to avoid offending him with your money, just in case he forgets.