So I took my wife to the ballet on Saturday night at the Kennedy Center -- it was Don Quixote, which ironically enough, I first saw in Moscow in 1985. Principal ballerina dancing the lead role was Ukrainian. Before the show, one of the principal dancers who had the night off came out and asked us all to stand as the orchestra played the Ukrainian national anthem. Quite moving indeed.
Funny how high culture can sometimes provide some extraordinary moments -- first opera I ever saw was Beethoven's Fidelio, an opera about liberation, performed by the Polish National Opera at the Bolshoi, again, in 1985.