Jazz<\/a> Jams at the Kennedy Center since 2006, succeeding bassist William \u201cKeter\u201d Betts. In an email Wednesday to the Associated Press, Redd said he pulled out of the concert in the wake of the renaming.<\/p>\n\u201cWhen I saw the name change on the Kennedy Center website and then hours later on the building, I chose to cancel our concert,\u201d Redd said. He added on Wednesday that the event has been a \u201cvery popular holiday tradition\u201d and that he often featured at least one student musician.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the many reasons that it was very sad to have had to cancel,\u201d he told the AP.<\/p>\n
The year after John F Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, Congress passed a law naming the center as a living memorial to him.<\/p>\n
Grenell is a Trump ally whom the president chose to head the Kennedy Center after he forced out the previous leadership. According to the White House, Trump\u2019s handpicked board approved the renaming, which scholars have said violates the law. JFK niece Kerry Kennedy has vowed to remove Trump\u2019s name from the building once he leaves office, and former House historian Ray Smock is among those who say any changes would have to be approved by Congress.<\/p>\n
The law explicitly prohibits the board of trustees from making the center into a memorial to anyone else, and from putting another person\u2019s name on the building\u2019s exterior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The president of the Kennedy Center has demanded $1m in damages and fiercely criticized a musician\u2019s sudden decision…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-658728","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115794279543048623","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}