An orchestra made up of young Israeli and Arab musicians has played its first concert in an Arab country. The West-Eastern-Divan Orchestra played a programme of Mozart and Beethoven pieces in the Moroccan capital, Rabat. The concert was conducted by the orchestra's co-founder, the Israeli conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim.
The 'peace orchestra', under the leadership of
Daniel Barenboim and
Edward Said, has played its
first concert in Morocco. You should be able to listen to their performance at the London proms at the BBC Radio 3 website
here until 29 August.
Comments
Wonderful project which I first read about in the NY TImes about a year ago. Last month the orchestra played a memorial concert for Edward Said, who inspired & helped Barenboim to create the orchestra.
I can't find a website for the orchestra. DO you know if there is one? I'd like to feature it in a comprehensive list of ME peace web resources which I've created at my blog.
Richard
Posted by: Richard Silverstein | November 28, 2003 3:56 PM
Hi, the link for the orchestra is in the quote above:
http://www.divan-weimar.de/english/index.html
Your blog is great!
Posted by: gwen | November 28, 2003 6:03 PM