Bonus Feature: When music is the weapon

Pianist Vadim Neselovskyi has made his Odesa Project a model of art as activism

Vadim Neselovskyi in Varna, Bulgaria on Aug. 5, 2022. Courtesy of the artist.

Vadim Neselovskyi had already been thinking deeply about his homeland when, back in February, Russia began its “special military operation” in Ukraine. A pianist and composer of vast expressive resources, Neselovskyi was then in the process of producing a solo album inspired by…