Ukraine: musicians together for peace in Naples – Campania
San Pietro a Majella, Ukrainian artists play with a Russian colleague
(ANSA) – NAPLES, 04 MAR – The Hymn to Joy which is the anthem of Europe opened the concert for peace that took place in the concert hall of the Conservatory of San Pietro a Majella in Naples. A concert that saw on the stage Ukrainian and Russian musicians who, together through music, wanted to ‘cry out’ their suffering but above all and above all and their desire for peace, fraternity and friendship. ” We all want peace – said Tetyana Sapeshko, pianist from Dnipro – the whole world and Europe are terrified, tonight’s attack on the nuclear power plant shook the whole world, but no one intervened. Sanctions are the only weapon we have but it doesn’t seem to me that they are stopping Putin. But I want to thank all the Italians who are sending aid to my people, it’s wonderful ”. Next to her is Inna Kulikova, a violinist, born near Kazan, and snoring with an Italian musician. ” We are all against the war – she said – I graduated last year, but as soon as they called me to play tonight I immediately said yes: I am a musician and if playing my violin, if music can help rhythm then I can always play, non-stop ”. The students gave the audience the performance of music by the Ukrainian composer Mykola Stezjun, by one of the noble fathers of Russian music, Pëtr Tchaikovsky, by Lysenko, Machavariani, by Paganini, by Rachmaninov, by Shostakovich. Songs that were interspersed with the reading, entrusted to the Neapolitan actor Patrizio Rispo, of texts by Salvatore Quasimodo, the Ukrainian writer Svetlana Aleksievich, the Ukrainian writer and poet Taras Shevchenko, Gianni Rodari and Emily Dickinson. ” This training place and this city – explained the president of the Conservatory, Luigi Carbone – inspire us not to be indifferent, not to remain silent but to shout, to sing because indifference is as bad as violence ”. And to conclude the concert, the performance of ‘O sole mio, whose music was composed in Ukraine, in Odessa on the Black Sea. (ANSA).
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