West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in Ramallah

[Pannwitz, Michael M]

Dear Filiz and you others on this list,
well, having a really "divergent", "diverse"
(in German "mannigfaltig" perhaps meaning "coming from many folds or
parts")
crowd at the Practice of Peace Program with Harrison Owen in Berlin
Nov 30 through Dec 2
is in fact a dream.
The event itself will take place!
And I envision many Berliners (there are people from 160 nations in
this city),
people from Middle and Eastern Europe
and in fact from all over to come to the Program.
Yes, you can mark it in your calender.
It will start at 9 am on the 30th of November and end in the early
afternoon of Dec 2.
Later that day we will definitely celebrate the 70th of ho which
happens to fall on December 2.
There will very likely also be a gathering on the evening before the
event,
on the 29th, maybe in the Pub where we hold our local Stammtisch.
They have very good beer and huge tables.
Greetings from Berlin
mmp

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 09:43:51 -0700, Filiz Telek wrote:

>Michael,
>that really is a beautiful picture you shared with us,
>thank you! 
>art, especially music seems to be a very powerful
>phenomena that opens the space immensely...
>so, this practice of peace in Berlin, is that a dream
>or a possibility that will happen? I am personally
>very interested in a practice of peace because I also
>dream to have one in Turkey one day :) 
>
>filiz 
>
>
>--- "Pannwitz, Michael M" <mmpanne at boscop.de> wrote:
>
>> 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
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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