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with foreword by Daniel Barenboim
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The renowned Palestinian literary critic Edward Said and his friend Daniel Barenboim, the Argentinean-born Israeli musician, set up the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in 1999. It was their attempt to put into practice what others had only preached or decried - a dialogue between Palestinians and Israelis to show that a genuine human understanding and dialogue between these two peoples was possible. Music, they quite rightly perceived, could achieve what politics was unable to. Barenboim, in his foreword to this moving and illuminating book, writes: "Of course, the orchestra is incapable of bringing peace to the Middle East. We are musicians, not politicians. We wanted to create a human solution in the absence of a political one." He and Said, he continues, also believed in "letting opposing voices be heard at the same time; we were not interested in providing a line of thought to be followed by all." Elena Cheah, a member of Barenboim's orchestra at the German State Opera, became involved with the Divan orchestra in 2006 and has produced this book of interviews with the young members of this vibrant orchestra. The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra is made up of musicians from Israel, Palestine, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan, together with several professional musicians like Elena herself from elsewhere. Het West-Eastern Divan orkest brengt jonge muzikanten uit de Palestijnse Gebieden, Israel en andere landen in het Midden-Oosten bijeen en is daarmee een van de meest gewaardeerde orkesten in de wereld en een belangrijk teken van hoop in een door oorlog verscheurde regio. In 1999 werd het orkest gesticht door Daniel Barenboim en Edward Said met als doel begrip tussen Israëliërs en Arabieren te bevorderen door middel van muziek. Auteur Elena Cheah - muzikant in het orkest en assistente van Daniel Barenboim - onderzoekt in haar boek de opmerkelijke verhalen van de leden van het orkest. Tijdens de presentatie zal Cheah lezen uit haar boek en vragen beantwoorden. In het filmprogramma wordt ook een documentaire vertoond over dit orkest, te weten Knowledge is the Beginning.
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with foreword by Daniel Barenboim
