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GENEVA / BARENBOIM CONCERT
STORY: GENEVA / BARENBOIM CONCERT
TRT: 3:12
SOURCE: UNTV CH
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 31 OCTOBER 2015, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND/FILE
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1.Aerial shot, Palais des Nations
31 OCTOBER 2015, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
2. Wide shot + pan, Human Rights room
3. Wide shot, Human Rights room with worker
4. Wide shot, Human Rights room
5. Wide shot, Human Rights room
6. Med shot, workers
7. Med shot, workers preparing stage
8. Wide shot, workers + ceiling Human Rights room
9. Med shot, workers and chairs
10. Tilt up, ceiling
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Daniel Barenboim, conductor and pianist:
“When they spend all day long trying to make music together, playing together the same note, with the same volume, with the same quality of sound trying to do the same, the same, the same, eventually the differences at least mentally get softer. But I think for non-musicians, what the Divan can and should do is to become an example of the acceptance of the other provided he accepts you too”.
12. Med shot, journalists in press conference at Human Rights room
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Moeller, Director General of United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG):
“This is a room, the Human Rights room, where every – not every country but at least a vast number of countries sit every year and discuss the issue of Human Rights and of course we don’t agree and of course some of them have a human right record which is better than others, and some have worse than others, but the fact is that if it wasn’t for this room, and for what happens in here, the human rights in general across the world would probably be in a much much worser place than it is today”.
14. Med shot, panel in press conference
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Daniel Barenboim, conductor and pianist:
“If you go freedom, and you have no responsibility, you don’t have freedom, you have anarchy. In other words rights and responsibilities are twin brothers”.
16. Wide shot, Human Rights room
17. Close up, charts of Mozart notes
18. Close up, Barenboim and musicians
19. Pan, Musician and Barenboim
20. Pan, orchestra to ceiling
21. Pan, Barenboim, players
22. Med shot, Barenboim conducting
23. Wide shot, Human rights room
24. Pan down, ceiling, orchestra
25. Close up, SNG truck
25. Zoom out, screen, SNG truck
Daniel Barenboim, one of the world’s most renowned orchestra directors, conducted the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in a performance on Saturday at the United Nations Office at Geneva called Concert for the Understanding of Civilizations and Human Rights.
The concert, performed on Saturday (31 Oct), was attended by the United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, the UN Director General in Geneva, Michael Moller, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein and other dignitaries.
The West–Eastern Divan Orchestra, composed of young musicians from Israel, Palestine and other Middle East countries, aims to promote understanding between Israelis and Palestinians and to pave the way for a peaceful solution of the Arab-Israeli conflict. In a time where the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has mounted again, joint projects such as the orchestra, gain significant meaning.
Maestro Daniel Barenboim says that “when they spend all day long trying to make music together, playing together the same note, with the same volume, with the same quality of sound trying to do the same, the same, the same, eventually the differences at least mentally get softer. But I think for non-musicians, what the Divan can and should do is to become an example of the acceptance of the other provided he accepts you too”.
The concert programme is comprised of three symphonies composed by Mozart in 1788. It will take place at the Human Rights Hall in the United Nations Office at Geneva which was transformed during the past days in a concert hall.
Michael Moeller, Director General of United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG): “This is a room, the Human Rights room, where every – not every country but at least a vast number of countries sit every year and discuss the issue of Human Rights and, of course, we don’t agree and, of course, some of them have a human right record which is better than others, and some have worse than others. But the fact is that if it wasn’t for this room, and for what happens in here, the human rights in general across the world would probably be in a much, much worse place than it is today”.
For the conductor Daniel Barenboim “the moment has come for the UN and the great powers to exercise pressure on all sides to solve this conflict”. However, he emphasizes that “if you get freedom, and you have no responsibility, you don’t have freedom, you have anarchy. In other words rights and responsibilities are twin brothers”.
Barenboim who has been leading the most prestigious orchestras of the world such as the Orchestra de Paris, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, founded together with the late Palestinian literary scholar Edward Said in 1999 the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra based in Sevilla, Spain.
Saturday’s concert was organised by the Onuart Foundation with Julius Baer as lead sponsor and produced by MEDIAPRO. It will be broadcast via Eurovision to countries around the world, and from more broadcasters on the occasion of the International Human Rights Day on 10th December.
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