“I would like to share with you some feelings or thoughts I have; not political, but rather of human concern.”  23924

Ladies and gentlemen, I hope you will bear with me some words I would like to say, that I would like to share with you. I don’t know whether all of you will agree with them, but I really would like to share that with. But first of all, I would like to thank this wonderful orchestra … And I would like to share with you some feelings or thoughts I have; not political, but rather of human concern. When I look at the world with so many isolation tendencies, I get very worried, and I know I am not alone. You know, I lived in this country for many years. I was married in this country, and I lived here for many years. And I was shown so much affection while I lived here that this kind of gave me the impetus, if you want, to say what I would like to say.

I think that the main problem today is not the policies of this country or that country. The main problem of today is that there is not enough education. That there is not enough education for music, we know for a long time. But now, there is not enough education about whom we are, about what is a human being, and how is he to relate with other of the same kind. That’s why I say it’s not political, but of human concern …

Our profession, the musical profession, is the only one that is not national. No German musician will tell you, “I am a German musician, and I will only play Brahms, Schumann and Beethoven.” We had very good proof of it tonight …

The real evil of the world can only be fought with a humanism that keep us all together. Including you. And I’m going to show you that I really mean it [plays [Pomp and Circumstance] March No. 1 in D].

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