GAZA / BARENBOIM WRAP

World renowned conductor Daniel Barenboim and the ‘Orchestra for Gaza' performed Mozart's "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" and Symphony No. 40 for Gazans today at the al-Madha Cultural Center north of Gaza City. UNRWA

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:29
• Production Date: 3 May 2011
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND WORKS AGENCY FOR PALESTINE REFUGEES IN THE NEAR EAST - UNRWA
• Subject Topical: FINE ARTS; LITERATURE; MUSIC
• Geographic Subject: MIDDLE EAST
• MAMS Id: U110503m

Description

STORY: GAZA / BARENBOIM WRAP
TRT: 2:29
SOURCE: UNRWA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGAUGES: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 3 MAY 2011, GAZA, OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES

Shotlist

1. Various shots, Conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim and orchestra at Al-Madha Cultural Center
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Daniel Barenboim, Conductor and pianist:
“They are musicians who care about humanity; they are musicians who care about the problem of people all over the world. They have no need to come with all the difficult, which you know, to come here. And I and you will never be able to really tell them how much we appreciate that because this is a unique gesture from the whole of Europe for you the people of Gaza.”
3. Various shots, orchestra playing Mozart's "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" and the Symphony No. 40
4. Med shot, audience clapping
5. Med shot, Barenboim meeting the young musicians at Al-Qattan Foundation
6. Cutaway, people gathered at concert
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Daniel Barenboim, Conductor and pianist:
“I hope all this new wave of thinking will bring all of them, everybody, all of us, Italians, Americans, Israelis, Egyptians, Palestinians, everybody to think everything anew and that the old beliefs and the old ways of thinking have to be re-examined. And therefore, maybe by doing this, all of the people of this area, Palestinians, Israelis, Egyptians will realize that we are here to live somehow next to each other in this part of the world and we can live together or we can live side by side but we mustn’t live back to back.”
8. Med shot, Barenboim listening to young musicians performing

Storyline

World renowned conductor Daniel Barenboim and the ‘Orchestra for Gaza’ performed Mozart's "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" and Symphony No. 40 for Gazans today (3 May) at the al-Madha Cultural Center north of Gaza City.

The concert was organized by the United Nations (UN) Agency for Palestinians Refugees (UNRWA).

At the concert, Barenboim called the musicians, who had travelled with him to Gaza through the Rafah Crossing along the Egypt-Gaza border, “musicians who care about humanity.”

The newly formed ‘Orchestra for Gaza’ includes musicians from Staatskapelle Berlin, Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris and La Scala of Milan.

The Argentinean born/Israeli Barenboim was designated as a UN Messenger of Peace by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in September 2007.

In written statement, Ban expressed appreciation for the efforts of Barenboim and the Orchestra “who gave their time and talent to bring music to Gaza.”

Earlier today, young Palestinian musicians from the Al-Qattan Foundation performed traditional music for the 68-year-old maestro and his orchestra.

On Israeli-Palestinian relations, he said “we can live together or we can live side by side but we mustn’t live back to back.”

In 1999, Barenboim together with the Palestinian literary scholar Edward Said the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, which brings together young musicians from Israel and the Arab countries to promote dialogue and unity of purpose between the various cultures of the Middle East.