00:00It is a great honor to present to you, in the spirit of gratitude and admiration, the traditional bell, with which you are the famous bell.
00:11With this, we usually try to bring tranquility to the Senate when it is a bit in turmoil, but it is also a sound that in your hands can become very sweet. Thank you.
00:30I don't know if you heard, it seems to me that the master asked you if you were a man.
00:52I didn't prepare a speech, obviously, and usually when I don't prepare, no one can predict what comes out of my mouth, but this is a very special occasion.
01:13Today you have attended a concert of two extremely complex compositions, played very well by the flower of Italian youth.
01:27I was trained 20 years ago by the Cherubini Orchestra to pass on to them the teachings I had from my great teachers.
01:53As I said on other occasions, I don't come from a blasphemous academy, but I come from an Italian school.
02:23I come from the famous orchestra of Chicago, which is one of the largest orchestras in the world, as you know, and in which I am the director emeritus for life.
02:37At 30 degrees below zero, when I left the concert hall, I always had a sense of warmth inside me, because in front of the entrance of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, there is a large museum of Chicago,
03:02where Michelangelo, Raffaello, etc. etc. are inscribed. So I said to them, you see, they understood.
03:10What did I teach them? I taught them that no one has the truth in his pocket, not even the critics.
03:29In fact, in the hotel, Iago said at one point, to apologize, I am no longer a critic.
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