West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in Ramallah

[Pannwitz, Michael M]

Dear colleagues,
I was not there, just watched in on Television,
the performance of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in Ramallah last
Sunday.
Something happened in Ramallah that is by all criteria:
political, organisational, cultural, physical, etc.
impossible.
A group of young palestinian, arab and spanish musicians performing
with
Daniel Barenboim in a place where they could never be together.
Till the day before the event utter uncertainty about whether it
would actually work.
After 5 years of work on this project (starting in Weimar, taking
"West-Eastern Divan" from one of Goethes literary works and continued
with yearly workshops in Sevilla with its historic tradition of  a
productive collaboration of jews and arabs centuries ago) equipped
with Diplomatic Passports by the Spanish government they actually
came to Ramallah.
A musical demonstration of amazing quality (Beethovens Fifth)
performed by 15 to 30 year old musicians from Egypt, Syria, Jordan,
Lebanon, Israel and Spain....a glimpse of the future of people living
together in productive collaboration with implications far beyond
Ramallah. But what a place to have it take place!
This reminded me so much of the events in Rome (that lead to
Harrisons book "Practice of Peace") and again in Cypress this year.
Palestinians and Israelis meeting in a foreign place, on the
invitation of a foreign government.
There are peacemakers all over the place using such similar methods
as Music and Open Space Technology and others.
My dream is to have a divergent crowd at the Practice of Peace
Program November 30 and December 1 and 2 in Berlin
(not to forget the celebration of Harrisons 70th on the 2nd of
December, when he will actually have completed seven decades of his
journey on this planet).
Greetings from Berlin
mmp




Michael M Pannwitz, boscop eg
Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin, Germany
++49-30-772 8000
www.boscop.de   www.michaelmpannwitz.de

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