 Over het laatste jaar heb je 125 jaar een Concertgebouw en een Concertgebouw Orchestra gegeven. In de gevolg van wat ze hebben gezegd, kunnen jullie een aantal commissie kunnen ontdekken over... Er zijn er geen veranderingen in het sens van de Concertgebouw 125 jaar geleden. Of denk je dat deze gebouw nog steeds dezelfde functie in onze society heeft gehaald... ... zoals het vanaf 100 jaar geleden had? De society heeft gegeven en is nog steeds veranderd. Onze rol is ook veranderd. Het is zo'n grote probleem om te praten. Ik denk niet dat we de relevanten van cultuur en de relevanten van deze mooie haal... ... en alle orchestra's, muziek en ensemble die hier dag in, dag uit spelen. Dat is niet de centrale vraag. Ik denk dat we moeten proberen om te worden een soort van groep... ... en misschien is het een beetje te rood... ... maar om dat we een soort van groep van een grumpy oud man te worden... ... gevoeliging over dat cultuur belangrijk is en de rest voelig is. Dat zal ons niet helpen. Ik denk dat ik een positieve man van nature ben. Ik denk dat optimisme een obligatie is. Dat zal ons helpen. Ik ben duidelijk gewend dat... ... speciaal de rol van muziek in onze society... ... extreem belangrijk is. En muziek is in iedere individueel present. Misschien een exception, zoals de wolfkid, zoals u zei, na 12 jaar. Maar van de eerste dag dat het kid is live... ... kan het herkennen, ritme en melodie, enzovoort. Het is daar. Ik denk dat we moeten concentreren op de vraag... ... wat we kunnen doen om accessie te geven... ... tot alle kinderen van onze society. We zijn extreem, extreem privele mensen in dit gebouw. En speciaal rond de tabel. We hebben eenvoudige educatie. Sommige zijn eigen educatie, maar nevertheless... ... intelligente mensen. We love art, we know art, we make art. We are working in the world of art in several roles. We don't need to convince ourselves, but we should realize... ... that there is a huge majority outside this group... ... who has just simply no clue of us. Let alone the role of us and the necessity of us. My question is, what can we and what should we do... ... to give all this huge majority access... ... to the arts? And how can we support those kids... ... to get along, to know arts? And very important, how can we foster concentration? Because in the world of this multimedia... ... and all those smartphones and whatsoever... ... it's so difficult to learn kids to focus, to concentrate... ... to develop their own thoughts. So there is a lot of sightwind also. So they don't know the arts and there is a lot of sightwind. The combination is quite a disaster I think. And as we used to say in the Netherlands... ... you can better fly fleas with syrup rather than with a whip. I think the support of this institution... ... and that's your question... ... of all those musicians and ensembles and orchestras... ... that play day in, day out of our society... ... the support of the society is extremely important. And that's the reason why we recently launched a new initiative... ... called the Digital Learning Line. One of the tragedies of our education system... ... is that over the last 20, 30 years... ... less and less kids have music education in their class. They don't have it because teachers are afraid to give music lessons. They shame themselves because they cannot sing... ... or they simply have no background in music... ... so they simply cannot give music education. So we tried to convert that. And we came up with the idea to work with a publisher... ... or the education publisher... ... to bring the music lessons back into the classes. And our initiative is a digital learning line... ... that enables all those teachers in the classes... ... to give music lessons one hour per week... ... at least one hour per week during eight years. So that at least the kids get along with it. They know what music is about... ... and hopefully they will enable the teachers... ... to give music lessons in the future. So, you know, it's not ignorance that it's a problem... ... because a human being that is ignorant... ... is proud that he doesn't know. Those kids just don't simply... ... they simply do not know about music... ... because they do not recognize it. And I'm so convinced that, as I told in the beginning... ... music is in every single kid... ... but we have to enable them to get... ... the lessons of this music... ... and to support them in a proper way. I think that's it. And it's a very practical approach... ... because the situation is, in my view, really terrible. It's a sort of desert outside. There are so few kids, so few people that know... ... what we do here in this institution. And as long, and as soon as they get here... ... they become, well, fans. And that's the work we try to do day in, day out. That's my very short story.