“I felt like a child watching a horror film,” he said in an interview.

On Friday, Mr. Tetzlaff, 58, a renowned violinist who frequently performs in the United States, said that he was canceling an eight-city tour of the country with his quartet this spring — including a stop at Carnegie Hall — and that he was unlikely to perform again in America unless the government reversed course.

“There seems to be a quietness or denial about what’s going on,” he said. “I feel utter anger. I cannot go on with this feeling inside. I cannot just go and play a tour of beautiful concerts.”

Mr. Tetzlaff is one of the first major foreign artists to try to use a cultural boycott to influence Mr. Trump’s policies during his second term.

For decades, American artists have canceled tours as a means of protesting war, autocracy, injustice and discrimination abroad. There were cultural boycotts of South Africa in the 1970s and 1980s in protest of its policy of apartheid, and more recently, artists have refused to perform in Russia since its invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

“I cannot see myself as an entertainer; it’s not our aim to please an audience so they go home and say, ‘This was a lovely evening,’ with a good glass of red wine,” he said. “Music sends messages about the human condition, about empathy and the heart. We have to uphold these ideals.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5687870&forum_id=2#48707559)

“I felt like a child watching a horror film,” he said in an interview.

“I felt like a child watching a horror film,” he said in an interview.

“I felt like a child watching a horror film,” he said in an interview.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5687870&forum_id=2#48707575)