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The music director of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow and the Capitol National Orchestra in Toulouse, Tugan Sokhiev, has resigned, world news agencies reported. He said he was under pressure to take a stand on the events in Ukraine.
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"I know that many people expect me to say something and announce my position on what is happening in Ukraine at the moment," Sokhiev said in a statement.
"First, I have to say the most important thing - I have never supported and will always be against any conflict in any form," he said.
"The fact that some people question my desire for peace and think that I, as a musician, can say something other than peace on the planet is shocking and insulting to me,
" he added.
Considered one of the greatest artists of his generation, this conductor of ethnic Russian-Caucasian descent also says that he cannot witness the way his colleagues, artists, actors, dancers, ballet dancers, directors are threatened, treated in disrespectful ways and are victims of a culture of erasure.
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They want me to choose one cultural tradition over another. Soon they will ask me to choose between Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Shostakovich and Beethoven, Brahms and Debussy. This is already happening in Poland, a European country where Russian music is banned. "
he added.
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"In the face of an impossible option to choose between my Russian musicians and my favorite French musicians, I decided to resign as director of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow and the Capitol National Orchestra in Toulouse, with immediate resignation. in force ",
explains the artist.
"We, the musicians, are here to recall the horrors of war through Shostakovich's music. We, the musicians, are ambassadors of peace. Instead of using us, we and our music to unite peoples and nations, we are divided and overthrown. ", he added, BTA reported.
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