"Good Evening. The stage (on) which we make music, should never be a place for political announcement, or statements - we make music that means joy and peace. But, we cannot play this symphony dedicated to joy and brotherhood, without thinking of the people and sufferance of Ukraine [prolongued applause]. Just a few years ago, I conducted a concert for friendship in Kyiv and I found wonderful, happy people. What we are seeing on television [today] is horrible .... and tonight in the final movement of the symphony, Beethoven - taking the text from Schiller - he speaks about joy, joy, joy. But we will think in that moment, that joy without peace cannot exist. And so I hope from this wonderful hall, from the orchestra, from the chorus, from you, a message should arrive to not only all the people in Ukraine, but also in the world, that those who are creating violence, hate and a strange need for war, we are against all that."
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