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The cellist Yo-Yo Ma at the Escola Artistica de musica do conservatorio nacional, the Lissabon converator, with Portugees student and students from the ANIM music school from Kabul Afghanistan. The Afghan musicians had to flee the Taliban take over in august 2021 and Portugal granted them asylum. Yo-Yo Ma is here to greet the Afghan student and to thank the Portugees for hosting them. He played an important role in getting the children out of Afghanistan into safety. Celebrated U.S. cellist Yo-Yo Ma has joined refugees from the Afghanistan National Institute of Music in the Portuguese capital Lisbon for a performance of Mozart?Eine kleine Nachtmusik Photo: Rachel Corner/De Beeldunie