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Mar
29
In Jerusalem
Filed Under Education, Travelblog, World Culture |
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The Wailing Wall & Dome Of The Rock, earlier this afternoon
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I’ve just arrived in East Jerusalem with the Choir of London, where we’re based for the next two weeks during the Palestine Mozart Festivals. We’re going to be giving loads of chamber music (and then orchestral) concerts, firstly in Jerusalem, but also in some of the more isolated areas of the occupied territories.
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Israeli ‘Security Road’ cuts through Palestinian landscape
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There is also outreach work attached; tomorrow morning, we are visiting the Edward Said Conservatory of Music in Ramallah to give a workshop/masterclass on Mozart’s Requiem, and later in the month we’ll be returning to Ramallah, and visiting the isolated northern Palestinian town of Nablus, as well as Bethlehem and a number of other holy places. Over the next two weeks I’m going to try and give you an idea of what we’re up to, why this this all happening, and whether music and apolitical ‘cultural engagment’ really can do any good in societies and cultures that are torn apart by conflict.
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From April 1st-15th, I’m blogging and videocasting directly from the Choir of London’s Palestine Mozart Festival in Israel and the Occupied Territories. If you wish to find out more, or to support the Foundation’s work, please click here to read more.
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