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UN Day Concert 2014: Lang Lang & Friends

24 October 2014

As part of the observance of United Nations Day 2014 (24 October), the UN Department of Public Information (DPI) organized a concert held in the newly-renovated General Assembly Hall at UN Headquarters in New York, featuring world-renowned concert pianist and UN Messenger of Peace, Lang Lang, and 16-time Grammy Award-winner, Sting. Performing with Lang Lang was an international youth orchestra representing five continents, assembled especially for the occasion, conducted by Manuel López-Gómez. Manuel López-Gómez, as well as many of the youth musicians hail from the renowned El Sistema programme, which provides music education to children from disadvantaged social-economic backgrounds.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks on the occasion.

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