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Daniel
Barenboim brings Arab and Israeli musicians to Ö÷²¥´óÐã Proms
Friday
22 August, Royal Albert Hall at 7.30pm
Schubert
Symphony No. 8 Unfinished
Mozart Concerto in F major for three pianos
Beethoven Symphony No. 3, Eroica
West-Eastern
Divan Orchestra/Daniel Barenboim (conductor/piano); Saleem Abboud-Ashkar
(piano); Shai Wosner (piano)
Daniel
Barenboim's West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, comprised of talented
young Arab and Israeli musicians aged between 13 and 26, gives its
first UK performance at the Ö÷²¥´óÐã Proms tomorrow (Friday 22 August
2003.)
Barenboim
is joined by the Palestinian writer and cultural commentator Edward
Said, co-founder of the Orchestra, for a public talk before the
concert.
They
were joint recipients of the Prince of Asturias Prize for Peace
in 2002.
The
Ö÷²¥´óÐã Proms concert will be the highlight of the Orchestra's tour
following a month of intense workshops, discussion and rehearsal
in Seville under the direction of Barenboim and Said.
Barenboim
himself conducts the Prom and is one of the soloists in Mozart's
Concerto for three pianos.
He
is joined by young Palestinian and Israeli pianists Saleem Abboud-Ashkar
and Shai Wosner.
The Orchestra
go on to give a concert in Rabat, Morocco, on Sunday 24 August.
This will be its first concert in an Arab country.
This
is the fifth year that Barenboim has run the Orchestra's summer
school, which has been based in Weimar, Chicago and this August,
for the second year running, in a former Catholic seminary near
Seville.
It
is one of the very few places in the world where Arab and Jewish
people have lived together in peace for more than 700 years.
Barenboim
says: "I have long believed that there can be no military solution
to the Arab-Israeli conflict neither strategically nor morally.
"If
I am right, then sooner or later the two sides will have to establish
some kind of contact – cultural, economic, scientific or whatever.
"I
think, so much blood has flowed, why do we have to wait for that?
Why do we have to wait for the politicians, if we can do something
now?"
Notes
to Editors
Every
Prom is broadcast live on Ö÷²¥´óÐã Radio 3 (90-93 FM) and can also be
heard online.
All
the Ö÷²¥´óÐã's digital services are now available on ,
the new free-to-view digital terrestrial television service, as well
as on satellite and cable. Freeview
offers the Ö÷²¥´óÐã's eight television channels, interactive services
from Ö÷²¥´óÐãi, as well as 11 Ö÷²¥´óÐã radio networks.
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