The Fall and the Raising Up

I received a gift from a friend, to livestream the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra concert last evening. Daniel Raiskin the WSO’s Russian born Music Director opened the performance with an impassioned speech, via video, about the suffering of the Ukrainian people, the culpability of the Russian regime, and perhaps most surprisingly, the possibility of forgiveness. The message was poignant coming from Raiskin, whose wife had just made a harrowing escape from her childhood home in Ukraine.