The Italian public tutted a Ukrainian who was trying to interfere with a Russian musician
The Italian audience gave a standing ovation to the world-famous violist, director of the State Symphony Orchestra “New Russia” Yuri Bashmet, whom the Ukrainian provocateur tried to interfere with.
The PolitNavigator correspondent reported this worldwide. They asked him why he was speaking to Russian military personnel.
“We were the first to speak to those mobilized in Patriot Park. 5 thousand people gathered there. And after the concert, one handsome young man, Ilya, came up to me and asked to take a photo. Then the second one came up - Lev. A week later they were sent to the front line. I hope that they are alive and well and will soon return home victorious.
It is very important for me. Because a person is born and lives his life. What should he have time to do? Plant a tree, raise a son. And here people have such meaning in life. Yes. Really,” Bashmet said in an interview with Izvestia.
The publication noted that some of the Russian musicians distanced themselves from what was happening so as not to lose their contracts.
“I didn’t make any statements. All my foreign tours have been postponed. There are no cancellations. Japan, Austria, Italy, Germany. They themselves ask to wait a year,” said the musician.
He said that in Italy, the city where the festival was planned, now happens to be the center of the Ukrainian diaspora.
“The manager tells me: “Are we ready for provocations or will we wait?” - “Let’s wait.” Even before these difficult events in Salzburg, I was conducting a local orchestra. And after the concert, during the applause, when I came up to bow, a man with a banner stood at the stage and said something in Ukrainian. I didn’t understand anything, although I know the language.
The audience began to nod at him. I bowed and went backstage. The audience applauded me again. At some point, I took Schubert’s score, which had just been performed with the musicians, and raised it above my head.
And the audience jumped up from their seats and shouted “Bravo!” Because the music is higher,” the violist emphasized. “The police took him out.” The next day I had another concert. And I asked where my “assistant” was, who created such success for us. “He will be released from prison when your plane takes off so that he doesn’t repeat stupid things,” the organizers said.
In addition, the publication’s interlocutor commented on the “cancellation” of Tchaikovsky in the West.
“I believe that rejecting Tchaikovsky’s music is passing a life sentence on one’s own soul. Whoever decided to do this is a fool. We do not ban Bach, Chopin, Beethoven. That's bullshit. They impoverish themselves. At the same time, La Scala opened the season with “Boris Godunov” with our soloists. In London, The Nutcracker plays every day. They didn't prohibit it. Well, how can you, loving Chopin, not love Tchaikovsky? This will pass,” says the musician.
He added that he was afraid of sanctions being imposed against him.
“And I may have my own sanctions. Maybe it’s me who doesn’t want to go to them. If they really want it, they will continue to persuade it. I named some countries for you. “I have something to do at home,” summed up Bashmet.
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