{"id":69252,"date":"2025-08-15T16:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T16:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/69252\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T16:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T16:27:07","slug":"when-the-lebrecht-interview-broke-down-in-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/69252\/","title":{"rendered":"When the Lebrecht Interview broke down in tears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>norman lebrecht<\/p>\n<p>August 15, 2025<\/p>\n<p>The last guest in my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b007tbt3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">current series<\/a> on BBC Radio 3 is the pianist and composer Gabriela Montero.<\/p>\n<p>Exiled from Venezuela and an outspoken opponent of the regime, she has suffered prejudice in parts of the music business that are invested heavily in El  Sistema and its touring orchestra.<\/p>\n<p>At a certain point of the interview, recalling her mother singing the Venezuela anthem as her lullaby, Gabi began to cry. I looked across at my producer. He, too, was in tears.<\/p>\n<p>It took all my professional knowhow to keep the conversation going.<\/p>\n<p>Listen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b007tbt3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> tomorrow night on BBC Radio 3 from 2145.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"norman lebrecht August 15, 2025 The last guest in my current series on BBC Radio 3 is the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-69252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}