ah ha you oh, they are torturing people. the thing about lucas franco is that he never ever forgives o. s duck kind at times no time to cry of us. it is not the time for reflection, so necessity, it's time for action. oh, she writes, a lot of thoughts about her id is home. people survive, she seems it churchman winston churchill. when you go from the hell did not stop. huh. maggie gamma man, that's no,

we are united. there are many of us. we will be victorious. how testers, chance all the members of the only poor, the free choir of bella. bruce are determined, their weapon is music. their battle ground is the st. weather and bellow, roofs, or in bon, their art is a form of protest. oh, they took part in a popular uprising that swept bella ruth in 2020, before it was brutally suppressed by dictator alexander lucas shinkel. oh, conductor vitaly, alec still knock also to pardon me. uprising in the bellow room capital minsk. oh, she uses our to fight repression. his message is one of defiance. oh, oh, as this one's a nissan, our mission is to show that that a roof still exists. but there is still a free belushi or even if

a small line is on mostly an exile on left is indeed a maple and many other people who are against the regime against a russian warn ukraine. you want to express themselves and want to be her title awesome on the wrong dakota. and that's why they're here at the beethoven 1st. the frequent concert was held in an unusual place. the plenary chamber and bon once the seat of the west, german parliament, an historic and a political setting. ah, this year the beethoven fest trend the spotlight on eastern europe on repression and bella roofs, as well as the war in ukraine. a nation who struggle for survival has been closely followed by the whole world. an advent, that's not only a celebration of music,

but a clear statement of support with these countries opposition movements. the question is, how can art survive in times of war and repression? what role can music play in bella? ruse or ukraine? was a condom can use it. can't stop war. when parts can stop war, stop our body, call to art and music. can change. people can ment, i think i use it as a medium with which we can reach very many people met them via their for dimension . and i function as that that was thought of ballasa national national claim after the rigged 2020 elections and ballers after the government crackdown our musicians wanted to do something i was, was vicki kimball, and they didn't want to be passively of others like lucas. it's her east, as they stood next to the people and thing that it became a national movement in belarus. like if it's an island at all, yet almost a mother coming at you. i think that music can change the world and that every

person can change and give them what this means. harman law nashikuru, their desert, people and ukraine. good to be surrounded by music. ver, creed in april ice. here we stayed concerts in air, raid shelters, to comfort little that they were frightened, or rather than the law chronicler de la keith, throughout the la senza town. on the 2nd, when we did not look, did they be sure, alexia sham britzky and his key faced sophia chamber choir, arrived in germany from war torn ukraine. they, too are using music to fight for their country. oh, i the choir was founded in 2007, and quickly became an important part of cultural life and the ukrainian capital. but it's sense of identity and purpose has changed since february. oh dr. the,

my old sir. lucy, yourselves as cultural ambassadors of ukraine, and i'm not sure you me see a national hot or a said the stick will tunnel diplomacy. ok, we want musicians from germany and bell roost to now and learn more about you training culture and to distinguish it from russian culture. lucy beach, shes not procreate is coca cola e her cache? yes, they put a while. i did receive her phone phone. oh, natalia alexander also feels a close bond with ukraine before the war. he organized the music festival and car keys in the countries northeast. he continues to do what he can in march, his taste to concert in a subway station, while bombs rained down on the city. ah, okay. in chicago to move you now, you training culture has to be audible and legible and visible and the missing

o'clock. and we must get space to this ukrainian culture on which is fair and except course on, on fine page o. in march 2022, the tale, alec so not met, an old friend and bon, the composer olga put guide, scale. the 2 had demonstrated together. embellishments during the mass uprising and 2020 both considered themselves activists put guys k as one of the most important composers and bella, ruth, she was asked by the beethoven 1st to compose a piece this year. each year, the festival commission to work in cooperation with which avella, now the old friends are here to collaborate on a musical mission with mm, gentle pneumonia. she all the intention is on ukraine at the moment,

but our friends from baller is our non jail and we're thinking about them eve. and it's hard for them because they know what's happening in ukraine, which is also so tight. ensure that to the flu, too much has happened. the track down on the popular uprising and belarus, the russian invasion of ukraine. these artists don't want to remain silent. that's also what their project with the beethoven fast is about. plus 30 and what's an n? as an ocean lee, there was no time to really cry and i flatter vaguely. and this is a line for action us one more stadium. yeah. forget it ceased you have to do something. it reflects on assisted side, full touch. the plenary chamber and bon was once the seat of the buddhist tug, the center and symbol, a post war german democracy. what better place for a concert with?

no, i will, does the state dollar kitchen all week, particularly while the team discusses the venue and agree setting makes an interesting change from a concert hall that boomers will differently. yeah. little and the ones to me, chris is, is vic exec funds, and it's very exciting to be in this room that he has offered and tried. and you're aware of all the decisions that were made hearing here, vada alice, which everything was decided on a language level. and even a and cheating people are probably the side. little vinny can shine a bit that will still be using the language from the language of art and you get to make a statement. yeah. be helped him using the language of art to convey political messages in me for a concert featuring choirs from 3 different countries. oh . ready ready ready july 2022, warsaw. castle square. reminders of ukraine are everywhere. people are collecting

donations for the wars victims. the border to ukraine or wars own is only about a 100 kilometers east. metalli, alexander decided this is a suitable part of eastern europe to get all the musicians together for over herself. ah, so is d as i'll find more so has now become a symbol of neighborly relations? vazo said we saw so the 1st city to be completely overcrowded with people fling ukraine gift listed on, mentioned. and of course, with the consensus totally new situation that all of us here in warsaw are getting reacquainted and finding on home is here in vice out once warsaw it brings us all together on rush hour found and saw that on level calendar will showcase came audio booklet ukrainian has both an e and in sound as our hall not, not love with. is it my if you move sounds

a little bit farther forward towards the tisa less not families and follow la la la la la la as gift evie grange knocking the differences between ukraine and bella ruzen, who's some challenges. do you tighten it? he but it's not hard to overcome the language barriers, metalli, and ukrainian choir director, alexei, some litski. give lessons. 03 choirs have come together here from keith minsk in leipzig with its covent house youth choir. knees a problem, then these are her. so those are parliament and these are her sels, our democracy movement, v as to communicate standing, we have to reach artistic agreement. i think i'm. ready ready oh, the little black mountain. the pressure may, is course off, but we're here in warsaw. in berlin, in germany, generally, we feel free is in 5. 0,

here they are free from persecution, rehearsals, as a democratic process. all the musicians are aware that this project is about more than musical collaboration. oh lawn. but here to freedom has limits. that process, especially for the free choir from belarus, o fear of the violence and repression in their own country haunts them. the problem is not prison. the problem is if they know him from the choir, they will want me to sell others and they are torturing people. i don't know if my life is in danger, but my health is definitely in danger. i have relatives there and the regime is very upset about us and they want to revenge the terrorizing. not only the protests themselves,

but their relatives as well. the thing about lucas shingo as that he never ever forgives. 0 one member who chooses to dispense with the mask or choir director, galena, causing min of sky. the regime in belarus already knows her identity and has detained and interrogated her. she found the choir with like minded singers when unrest 1st swept bella ruth, in 2020 i might have caused the dean in the process when you think of me. so for months we took it to the street with almost every day beat it for small, but essentially flash mob said performance to that is usually so the people in ballers could hear us every day, didn't quote castanan the key quickly became a well known choir that everybody wanted to hear and everyone loves gun silver witches in the study. people started learning our songs. oh, my sticky. they saw a symbol of the belly ruffian resistance and me for sending us. the government came looking for adding enough. they literally hunted,

doesn't down. oh, oh, did you shifted with her or was it for her? so for the piece by olga put guys kaya for the beethoven fest, the composer follows progress closely. she herself is living in exile in warsaw and getting by giving organ concerts and music lessons. she's afraid to return to bella bruce. ah, daniel can i can't go back to valerie right now. i'm being harassed. my music is band, so i'm living in poland. the piece is dedicated to the bell ruffian dissident maria coll. yes. me kava who became known the world over in 2020 for her courage and the vanguard of the uprising. and remember tatiana homage the dissident sister has come for the concert often and will be the 1st time shows you the composition for maria,

herself, a flute player. oh, on the title is the sky of mary. mushy. was nicole mcmurry. and i have known each other for a long time. we study together at the conservatory, along with my husband, joshua group in law, got santa brought some letters. her sister sent her from prison and bella russo, how she stays in contact with the outside world. since january 9th, 2022, she's in correctional colony in goldman. it's a city close to ukraine. she writes a lot of thoughts about ideas, how people survive her home. people leave these 2 years in different competencies. and she mentioned sir, quotation of, she seems, it's churchill winston churchill. when you go through the hell did not stop. tatyana mrs. her sister and campaigns for her release around the world

to very difficult situation and very difficult, almost 2 years. and also because she cannot listen to music, she is not allowed to play flute, of course, with i suppose here suits sir many months ago actually. and so we were refused to cause the struggle against lucas shank goes. regime has brought the 2 women together. maria cal yes. nick, kava, the prominent opposition leader and the world class composer an ogre put guide sky . they agree that bella ruth had reached a moment of decision both are trying in their own way to free their country of its dictatorship. i neosha adjustable much at all. i thank much wanted maria to hear my peace with you know, what? whenever i think about where maria is now. i start tearing out the still sills. if that had been alice possessed with, it's like just tears was, it's

a kind of hopeless lack. what, because you don't know why you can that you could sort of the only thing you can do is write a piece and dedicated to this person and upset, but a, you genius. he teaches them triangle. maria is, i ria, is a symbol of a protest movement, or quote, it really is a symbol of the peaceful revolutionary canada will its on maria, maria smiles when the on them whenever others are completely stressed out on. maria always smiles and says that everything will be fine. he had some to fill out, maybe not now long and maybe not even to morrow at school, but eventually it will be fire started. we'll have to stay strong, thus 11. and that's how it is. area is found lice been imprisoned in fellows for a year and a half. now in the we know that she'll always stay strong. darcy, even lock stock, lack back to the rehearsals. a more saw today, the musicians are going through the ukranian pieces. all contemporary works and almost all written since the russian invasion of ukraine. one especially moving

work is called silent prayer, ah, it's conducted by alexia sham. litski, o rehearsals are overshadowed by talk of the war in ukraine. i had that everything will be okay it soon. but my colleague ukrainian said that unfortunately they don't believe that at all. don't so soon with the monitor. yeah. it was livid for me. it's a chance to recharge my batteries. looked at a that a pleasure and a chance to recuperate the month it arrived. and me just like to free choir from belarus. these ukranian musicians are unwavering in their resistance against the russian war of aggression menacing their countries,

cultural identity and existence. it wants to silence an entire generation. i will try an artist, but they aren't about to give up the muscle. it's ivy. now this war has 2 sides for art. lamasta's foot a chance to open ukraine of to europe, asia, and show it's like been cheryl co and 2 because 8 the shadow russian r t i yeah. the shadow chikavsky we pluck off. you have just the coverage there with this between takeoffs go proportions to call richer because at the national training composers are taking center stage the key yet you enter the chem quebec. if we may have never had this opportunity received such interest with us. war you call them the malibu more here to go in for a course that were itself is a nightmare. not as lisa a hitler. ca and austria. oh, love saw nationals, a tap, bolt champ, and others. it's a car of sometimes the only thing that helps is music they icky, which had pover notice had the dorm hordes here. he boss,

he cause odds horn easily it her toy h o her hers eaters, in the evening, it's time to bid farewell to warsaw. an emotional and moving weekend full of music after dinner, they break out into song melodies from ukraine and bella, ruth, steeped in poignancy and a long for home. oh oh, they're constantly worried about friends and family who still live in daily danger . the war and ukraine and repression in belarus. oh oh.

oh oh oh oh, it's finally time. the moment everyone has been waiting for has come. all the choirs are coming together and bon and making their final preparations for their concert at the beethoven fest. isn't that and he says that you've already grown a lot yet. now we know each other had cynthia ali, here were all the same level, even less people in terms of skill competence as this guy. thinking about this project for a very long time in on some cough, but now we're here actually making music together, teasing and our, and exploring our on. yes,

great to see on this is natalie's talks. he said apathy. the rehearsals are important for me personally because i'm not able to take part in international projects often have bought up mostly was to practical milton and it is not ordinary practice. ah, the choirs are warming up one last time and getting a bit nervous noon. a more yes, i laid a lot of new friends and heard interesting music bought the like over song beller, russian music before. yeah. and you should equal that. i really like it room was again, when you said little cesspools back in a vauxhall, it was the 1st step of these one. now li, i expect to be closer to each other. so with head law one correlations. and then comes a surprise. olga put guys kaya has received an unexpected message from dissident

maria coll. yes. nick kava. i'm doing fine. she writes optimistically. i'm in good spirits. good night. yeah. nip. saw as a busy when i wrote this piece dedicated to my childhood friend maria. i 1st sent it to beethoven fast and i think is and then i thought maybe it would be nice to send the score to murray. it's father, he doesn't eat because i but i didn't have great expectation with them with alice. he did that, but miraculously, he managed to bring the score to her in a prison, just give up and she was happy to be able to read the sheet music we did north, it was technically not allowed to do that in prison ability. and she's not black card to me and all the musicians to thank us, eat and boiler stop us it. but if you can move the curb was cushion or ye ah, the former plenary hall has been turned into a concert venue with an entirely new look. and feel

awe after rehearsing, intensely for weeks, natalia alixia anake is completely focused. ah! the sky of mary, whiles the audience at the beethoven fast and bon. ah ah ah

oh, but for the free choir, the concert is only one step on a long road. there fight for a future and freedom goes on in bon and in bella. ruth ah, this is beethoven best. once again, put some seed artist taking a strong stance in terms of war and violence in europe. ah. and for the finale, a moving plea for global peace. from a former time. this 18th century corral is part of a container by johann sebastian bach. it's called for light on sweden, canadian dish. grant us peace, graciously,

o metallic stomach is among the performers the festival was inspiring. but what happens next? mm. john junior was correct. i don't know. i can't say when he was good year, the gates yet sign back on, but every one will go their own way. house problem i got course those who come from troubled regions face a degree of uncertainty. ok, sierra dusty. i hope justice and truth will went out soon there by given and they were when the, if we stand together and in the not just a crania essential kraner if you already stay the course. keep fighting and keep going by to jennifer by today lou lou. ready ready ready ready ready

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