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- Béla Fleck canceled his Kennedy Center performance with the National Symphony Orchestra, citing the venue's rising political charge under U.S. President Donald Trump.
- Fleck said he is disappointed that politics have overshadowed music.
- He joins composer Stephen Schwartz and musician Rhiannon Giddens who withdrew amid concerns about the center's direction.
- Schwartz says performing there has become an ideological statement and will not participate as long as that remains.
