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Iraqi Symphony Performs for Bush
AP via Yahoo News ^
| 12/09/03
| ADAM ASHTON
Posted on 12/09/2003 6:25:15 PM PST by TexKat
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Famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma rehearses with the National Symphony Orchestra and the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2003 at the Kennedy Center in Washington. Ma will be the guest soloist in Tuesday night's joint concert that will be attended by President and Mrs. Bush. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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posted on
12/09/2003 6:25:16 PM PST
by
TexKat
To: MEG33; Ragtime Cowgirl; windchime; blackie; radu
Ping
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posted on
12/09/2003 6:26:42 PM PST
by
TexKat
(Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
To: TexKat
How nice
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posted on
12/09/2003 6:29:37 PM PST
by
MEG33
To: TexKat; MJY1288; Calpernia; Grampa Dave; anniegetyourgun; Ernest_at_the_Beach; BOBTHENAILER; ...
Thanks, Kat. I didn't know the Iraqi National Symphony was scheduled to play in DC. Wouldn't this have been a concert to remember! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Iraqi National Symphony performed for President Bush and a large audience Tuesday night...
The 63-member Iraqi group was joined by the Washington National Symphony Orchestra at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Leonard Slatkin, music director of the Washington Symphony, shared the stage with Iraqi conductor Mohammed Amin Ezzat in leading the combined orchestra...
Cello virtuoso Yo-Yo Ma also performed with the orchestras.
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Freedom to travel, associate, speak, write ~ and play music out loud ~ in public.
Why we fight, ping!
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posted on
12/09/2003 7:54:04 PM PST
by
Ragtime Cowgirl
( "Our military is full of the finest people on the face of the earth." ~ Pres. Bush, Baghdad)
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Very cool, When stability is achieved in Iraq and the Iraqi people become self sufficient and self governed, the Iraqi's will be building monuments to George W. Bush and our Soldiers who liberated them. History will show that George W. Bush could have easily ignored the threat Saddam posed and boasted about the great success in Afghanistan and left it at that, but instead, George W. Bush risked it all in order to change the world. The final chapter has yet to be written, but if George W. Bush's vision for the spread of democracy in the middle east becomes reality, he will go down as one of the greatest leaders this world has ever seen
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posted on
12/09/2003 8:07:09 PM PST
by
MJY1288
(The Democrats Have Reached Rock Bottom and The Digging Continues)
To: TexKat
OMG, this is so important! I hope that those who attended and consider themselves patrons of the arts will open up their pocketbooks and help to support these people as they try to rebuild the Iraqi arts.
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Bump!
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Thanks for the ping, RC. Classical music bump!
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posted on
12/10/2003 4:56:45 AM PST
by
Carolina
To: MJY1288; Ragtime Cowgirl; Freee-dame
President Bush's heart must have been swelling with emotion as he attended this performance. What a tribute to his resolve.
This would NEVER have taken place if any of the 9 dwarves were in that office.
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posted on
12/10/2003 5:12:03 AM PST
by
maica
(Laus Deo)
To: TexKat; Lady Composer
Wonderful - outstanding! I'd be curious to know what all repertoire they played.
To: maica
This would NEVER have taken place if any of the 9 dwarves were in that office. Ain't THAT the truth!!!
To: Ragtime Cowgirl; TexKat
Freedom to travel, associate, speak, write ~ and play music out loud ~ in public ~ Bump!
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posted on
12/10/2003 7:43:06 AM PST
by
blackie
To: TexKat; NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
A huge BRAVO from me! Was this aired on TV?
To: maica
This would NEVER have taken place if any of the 9 dwarves were in that office. Well, don't sell Joe Lieberman short on national defense.
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posted on
12/10/2003 8:55:18 AM PST
by
Coop
(God bless our troops!)
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Standing Ovation Bump!
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posted on
12/10/2003 9:34:56 AM PST
by
TEXOKIE
(Hold fast what thou hast received!)
To: TexKat
This is great. Why are the contrabasses in the middle in back? It's an unusual orchestral layout.
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posted on
12/10/2003 9:36:57 AM PST
by
RightWhale
(Close your tag lines)
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Fly kites, too. :)
BUMP
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posted on
12/10/2003 9:37:04 AM PST
by
Pan_Yans Wife
("Your joy is your sorrow unmasked." --- GIBRAN)
To: Pan_Yans Wife
Al-Dujaily is a biologist and had a fellowship three years ago at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. "The people were very surprised that someone from Iraq was able to play flute," he said. Americans didn't invent music.
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12/10/2003 9:38:20 AM PST
by
Pan_Yans Wife
("Your joy is your sorrow unmasked." --- GIBRAN)
To: Pan_Yans Wife
Americans didn't invent music. No, it was a Kapellmeister in Leipzig who did that.
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posted on
12/10/2003 9:42:55 AM PST
by
Jim Cane
To: TexKat
Betcha ted's p****d off (or just p****d)
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