To mark the third anniversary of the Russian invasion into Ukraine, the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra will perform Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at the Teatr Wielki in Warsaw. The orchestra was founded as a cultural counter-reaction to Russia's brutal invasion. Their Beethoven has the special feature that the text of Schiller's great freedom poem "Ode to Joy" is sung in Ukrainian. Schiller's opening word "Freude" (joy) is exchanged for the Ukrainian word "Slava" (glory), which conveys an electrifying effect in the moving echo of Ukraine's joint call for resistance in the face of aggression, Slava Ukraini! ("Glory to Ukraine!").