 We'll start where it all starts. As you know, I'm only playing three of the four songs on the EGVDR. Skipping was third one. I'm nearer to copyright. I'm nearer to copyright. That's true. Two minutes. Two minutes. In any point. Thank you. Thank you. I would just like to... Thank you. Thank you. Could we have a photo? Sure. We're on the other side, so we can go to the other side. We're on the other side, so we can go to the other side. We're on the other side, so we can go to the other side. We're on the other side, so we can go to the other side. We're on the other side, so we can go to the other side. We're on the other side, so we can go to the other side. We're on the other side, so we can go to the other side. We're on the other side, so we can go to the other side. We're on the other side, so we can go to the other side. We're on the other side, so we can go to the other side. We're on the other side, so we can go to the other side. We're on the other side, so we can go to the other side. We're on the other side, so we can go to the other side. We're on the other side, so we can go to the other side. We're on the other side, so we can go to the other side. We're on the other side, so we can go to the other side. We're on the other side, so we can go to the other side. We're on the other side, so we can go to the other side. We're on the other side, so we can go to the other side. We're on the other side, so we can go to the other side. We're on the other side, so we can go to the other side. It's my enormous pleasure and honor to introduce to you my boss also and my inspiration and our leader in the Sustainable Development Goals, a most remarkable person, U.N. Secretary General Antonio Gutierrez oversees this complex world and United Nations. He has asked the Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, Amina Muhammad, who is known to all of us to lead the effort on the sustainable development goals. She is a force of nature and has played a role that is absolutely unique in bringing about the goals. She was the special advisor to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on the negotiations of the Sustainable Development Goals, so she brilliantly managed the global diplomacy to bring them to reality. She went back to Nigeria to become the Minister of the Environment of the federal government of Nigeria and, of course, was helping to lead in that country as she has for many, many years. She was also the Director of the Millennium Development Goals Office for the President of Nigeria for many years, a decade ago before she came to the U.N. Well, as soon as she went home she was called by our new Secretary General, Secretary General Gutierrez. Come back to New York, we need you, and indeed she has come back to lead wonderfully and with enormous energy and creativity and constantly asking and pushing and controlling for more. This marvelous and unique effort that all of us are on, so it's a tremendous honor and pleasure to introduce to you the Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, Amina Muhammad. Sister of another mother and not a boss. But good evening and it is such an absolute privilege and honor to share an evening with all of you this afternoon, Amina. Thank you, Jeff, and all the supporters here for having us. Celebrating the Sustainable Development Goals through music is a wonderful expression of our commitment to our human family. Getting cheese for born out of a truly historic process four years of it where the global village came together and gave birth to 17 goals. The music tonight I hope will unveil the depth and their beauty to the notes that we will hear that should move our hearts and minds and unite us for just a moment. At the end of the evening I'd like to think that you take that moment and bring it into your lives for professional or a voice and take it out there to make a difference in the world. And really to bring the opportunities of each one of those goals as an entry point to make a difference. To bring solidarity, to bring respect, to bring dignity, to bring tolerance to a world that really is full of such tragedy, such atrocities. We've almost lost our way, where is our humanity? And this evening I want to bring us just a little closer. We have a crazy week at the UN and we'll bring together leaders and we hope that some of those speeches will move hearts and minds. But I hope that it is in this hall that we can do that and that we can show them the change that we really need to be. So I look forward to enjoying this evening with you and hope that we will definitely move hearts and minds because she has 17 goals. Thank you. The world we became is the longest growing piece that has quality education. We're 14, life below work, offering quality education. Is there interest in quality education below work? In classrooms, to rehearsal studios, we connect it to professional musicians and in this way we bring their voices to the stage of professional music. We make recordings of that and these recordings we send back to the original, very old composer, who's then stimulated to continue the work and to spread their personal message. If we think of the world of 2030, it's very abstract. It's very far away. It's not clear what needs to be done today. The musical postcard project invites very young to express their dreams and their hopes in music. So we give a voice to the generation of 2030, with all the voices and words that are voiced with music. These compositions travel the world. We record songs and pieces of music, sometimes in fairly remote places, in refugee camps, in children's prisons, or just in a music school somewhere. And in this way we amplify the real story of the generation of 2077. Tonight we present the composition of Shazamana. She composed it herself and her composition then was again by young people of her age built into compositions for the musicians that she did here. I'm Shazamana and I'm 30 years old. I am from Syria and now it's our Turkish instrument and I started playing when I was 7 years old, I guess. Loved up and it is above me, Loved up. It was cool to just imagine how it could be. I don't wish that the scholarship comes that was of the world because I just want it to stay like that. I just want humans to stay in connection with each other. I think music can play connecting with each other. Is it going like a film or is that just a one-year? Yeah, it's good to see it. I see it. It's awesome. I'm going to take it. Half the first. I have a different view of that. Yeah, I was just going to talk to you. It is a standard of a confidence piece which will be heard before the break and will continue to hear shortly. It was inspired by it. But for any addition and a more direct, even blatant musical response to the Sustainable Development Goals, my daughter, which is somewhere in the back there, says that it's crazy. I'm not sure. I think it's bitter and sweet. It's extreme. A little bit crazy. Maybe. But I will do my best to convey Ronan's response to the Sustainable Development Goals musical response. There is just one problem. This piece does not fit with the jacket. So there will be one. But in a different way. The words were written in the 14th century by Hafiz, Iran's greatest poet in Shiraz. They were translated to German by Hans Betke in Berlin. They were composed by Viktor Gullmann. We rehearsed the song in our home near Jerusalem. You should know that the Nazis did not like it at all, Viktor Gullmann. First, his grandparents were Jewish. And second, he composed atonal music. The Nazis avoided atonal music. In fact, they glummed together Afro-American jazz music and Jewish avant-garde music and art and labeled both as degenerate. As this entartete, as this atrocious, racist and anti-Semitic Nazi poster shows. For the Jewish grandparents, the Nazis have sent Gullmann to the concentration camp in Dresdenstadt and then to Auschwitz where they gasped. But his music lives on with us. So let's enjoy some degenerate music to the words of 14th century Hafiz. Support, transformations to sustainability. You know, science and arts are very much in common. They are both creative, imaginative, exciting, looking for the future. Science and arts, they are both universal. Mathematics, physics, biology. Painting, music dancing. They speak all languages. But why do we need arts to help us, science to communicate this complex, difficult message to develop and cause sustainable future? You know, many of us scientists believe that hard facts, which science is producing, a lot of technology, a lot of new innovations will bring us to the question of future. But it's not terrible. We also need to understand how these institutions, which humans created, how the humans themselves, our behavior, will change. Behavior of you and I, that's emotion. That's what we feel. That's how we move ourselves ahead, deep inside ourselves. And this is where the arts is coming into the point. So imagine, coming back to Mahler from the first part of this evening, you are on this fish in the ocean, and you are listening to me here, giving your lecture with photographs about how to change the energy systems or whatever. I think the chance that you will be untouched by this fish is a big one. As opposed to having me here and others and these fantastic artists, musicians and dancers who may help you to your motion when you close your eyes and listen to music or look how they dance. Imagine a woman getting out of poverty, a child going to school. If that is touching you in your heart, it's an issue that you will be fish leaving this place very much changed. And consumption. Can we have it all? This is the essence of the wisdom of nature. The environment supplies us with essential goods and services. The environment supplies us with essential goods and services. Development depends on interdependent co-development, economic development, social inclusion, environmental sustainability are hard to achieve by themselves. They can be accomplished at the same time. They can be accomplished at the same time. Negotiations lie at the point. They are connections. Strategic choice is matter. Strategic choice is matter. Strategic choice is matter. Context matters. Context matters. How can meet the needs of a growing World population within planetary boundaries of the population. How can make sure that they achieve This will require respect between different cultures and individuals. This will require fresh solutions and willingness to take intelligent risks. This will require a new perspective on how we got out of ourselves, others in the world. Are we ready to leave no one behind?