Musicians from 40 countries gathered in the heart of the former Nazi-occupied Poland on Tuesday to mark the outbreak of World War II with a concert to persuade people to make music is better than war.
"Someone who plans a suicide does not pay attention to our show, of course," the Russian conductor Valery Gergiev, who conducting the World Orchestra for Peace coincided with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin attended a ceremony Polish memorial in the eastern port city of Gdansk.
"But people just listen to good music, perhaps pay some attention and if 100 potential terrorists … at least 10 start thinking … things other than killing each other is important in life , now the power of music, "Gergiev, a close friend of Putin, told a news conference Monday.
The concert, beginning at 7 pm (1 pm EDT) in Saint Peter and Saint Paul’s Church, next to the main square of this intellectual and artistic center was the site of the Nazi administration, will be broadcast live on television Polish and streamed on the Internet The orchestra, founded in 1995 by the late Hungarian-born Jewish conductor Sir Georg Solti, brings together about 90 of the world’s best musicians from around the world and some of the best orchestras in the world.
Among them were violinist Jordan Nabih Bulos, who plays with Daniel Barenboim West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, and violates Israel Doron Alperin, whose Polish grandfather survived a Nazi concentration camp in Poland, and Krakow trip was to hear his grandson play live in concert for the first time.
Alperin, 30, was so choked with emotion at the thought of carrying out in a city whose 64,000 Jews were expelled or exterminated by the Nazis, with several thousands of deaths in the Auschwitz death near, he could not play solo version of the Jewish "Kol Nidre" prayer call out a remnant of the wall of the ghetto on Sunday.
"It’s something in my stomach," Alperin said, explaining why he asked a colleague to step in to play the melody disturbing.
Grandfather Alperin Adam Neuman-Nowicki, who left Poland in 1957 to settle in the United States, said he was excited to see her grandson perform. Even at age 83, he returned to Poland regularly and think your talking to people has helped steer young people away from anti-Semitism.
"This is a disease, no antibiotics to cure this disease, however, there are changes and I’m working for change."
The performance Gergiev, an ethnic Ossetian who led a controversial concert in 2008 in the Russian enclave backed Georgian breakaway South Ossetia to draw attention to the killings and bombings there, it was against a backdrop of controversy over the role of Russia in the Second World War.
Gergiev, said he believed the checkered history of Polish-Russian relations, including Poland’s insistence that Russia apologize for Josef Stalin’s order to massacre the entire body of Polish officers at Katyn in 1940, they have to hide their role in the concert or Putin’s visit to Gdansk.
"I think if he (Putin) did not want to contribute to peace would not come," Gergiev said.
The church seats about 600 people, but the performance of Mahler’s 5th Symphony and the world premiere of Prelude to "peace" by the composer Krzysztof Penderecki was born in Krakow, can be heard and seen by millions of people More on the Polish radio and television and a video transmission line through the website of CNN.
Penderecki, 76, said his brief prelude, scored for brass and percussion and including a glorious, uplifting fanfare, was a synthesis of his childhood memories of the Nazi invasion and the subsequent communist regime in Poland that ended in 1989.

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