Word: divan
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Each summer, he invites young musicians from Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Tunisia, and Israel to play in his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra...
...Divan Orchestra has been a locus of controversy in the Middle East. "There were many people in Palestine who didn’t want to see the orchestra playing in Palestine because they said it reeked of normalization," Barenboim says. "I took the orchestra to Ramallah as an act of defiance...
Barenboim’s defiance of convention has its limitations, however. Flaxman points out that the East-Western Divan has not yet managed to play in Barenboim’s childhood home. "It’s sad to remember that they’ve only played to Arab audiences twice, and they’ve never played in Israel," he says...
Along with the late Columbia University professor Edward Said, Barenboim founded the West-Eastern Divan Workshop, an orchestra for music students in Middle Eastern nations aimed-at bringing young people together “to make music on neutral ground,” according to Barenboim’s personal website...
With the team win assured, No. 48 Lingman enjoyed a solid 6-3, 6-4 victory over New Mexico’s No. 29 Divan Coetzee...