At the symphony posted @ drew3ooo

Even playing Beethoven can be a political act in Ramallah.

Attended this last night:

Barenboim’s orchestra plays for peace in Ramallah
Charlotte Higgins in Ramallah
Monday August 22, 2005
The Guardian

In a concert hall atop a dust-swept, sun-beaten hill yesterday afternoon, Daniel Barenboim was putting an orchestra through its paces, urging them, as he brandished his way through the opening bars of Beethoven’s Fifth: “Wake up! If you are tired, please stay at home! There’s no point playing the concert like this. Now: TEE-ya ta-ta TEE-ya ta-ta!”

Click here for the rest.

Tags: classical music, Daniel Barenboim, Israel, occupation, Palestine

Subscribe to comments Comment | Trackback |

Browse Timeline

Related Entries

No related posts

Add a Comment

At the symphony

View all posts by yours truly. Subscribe to follow comments on this post. Add your thoughts or trackback from your own site.

AndrewFordLyons.com

Teacher Support Network redesign
Yesterday evening I launched the new Teacher Support Network's group charity website. This has been a long time in the making with a number of revisions that reflects the pros and cons of the group process, but in the end, I think we came up with a stunning design that's ...
Developer meetups in London
I've joined a couple of web developer meetups in London, one through meetup.org and the other through Google. Both are full of brainy people and free nibbles. The Minibar is a popular regular meetup in Shoreditch for internet professionals to network and swap ideas and offers monthly face time to people ...
Working with Twentyfourten on charity’s micro-site project
UPDATE: I'm working with the Leeds-based Twentyfourten web design house and Tangible Response of Cheltenham on a micro-site for Teacher Support Network called Great Teachers Remembered. Here's the advert text for the site builder position tha'ts now closed: Website builder sought for Great Teachers Remembered Overview Teacher Support Networ […]
Seeking people to build something fantastic
The Top 5ive Project is something that's been simmering for a while in the conceptual stage and now's the time to make it real. It's a social experiment, a multi-revenue stream venture, a collaborative tool, a date finder, a friend finder, a group finder, a shopping outlet and a ...
Rachel Corrie Foundation website redesign
I spent last summer with my Movement Studio web designers cap on, giving the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice website a makeover from the traditional blog that it had been, to something approaching a full news site that better represents the diverse projects that the foundation has going ...

Suggested Clicking

Church of England calls economic recovery plan bankrupt
While totally wrong about the existence of an all-knowing monotheistic deity, the Anglican bishops are on to something regarding the economy.
Putin's whitewashing of Stalin nearly complete
One of Russia's biggest television stations is due to announce the winner later today and Stalin is seen as a contender despite having been one of the most blood-thirsty leaders of the last century who killed millions of his own people.
The Nuremberg Trials Project
The Harvard Law School Library has approximately one million pages of documents relating to the trial of military and political leaders of Nazi Germany before the International Military Tribunal (IMT) and to the twelve trials of other accused war criminals before the United States Nuremberg Military Tribunals (NMT). They are now putting them online.
Israel Policy Forum
Israel Policy Forum believes that through a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israel and its Arab neighbors, as well as the region as a whole, will become more secure, prosperous and stable.
Europe suspends the vote on upgrade to Israel relations
"Israel IS NOT ABOVE THE LAW" - The European Parliament today postponed the vote on the proposal by the EU Commission and Council for the draft recommendation to conclude a Protocol to the EU-Israel Association Agreement and on the general principles governing the State of Israel's participation in Community programmes.
Pope against hope
A church obsessed with sex and colonising the hereafter is embarking on a new level of destructiveness.
Polly Toynbee: My Christmas message? There's probably no God | Comment is free | The Guardian
True, it is embarrassing to be the only western democracy that has theocracy built into its legislature. The 26 bishops in the Lords interfere regularly: they are a threat on abortion, and their campaign sank the Joffe bill, giving the terminally ill the right to die in dignity. Of course they should not be there, when only 16% of people will grace the pews […]
AC Grayling: Secularists' vital war on religion | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
As long as religion is a danger to the lives and liberties of others, secular liberals will never relent in their protests
One missing word sowed the seeds of catastrophe in the Middle East
The Israelis say that they are not required to withdraw from all the territories – because the word "all" is missing and since the definite article "the" is missing before the word "territories", its up to Israel to decide which bits of the occupied territories it gives up and which bits it keeps.
White House consultant who rigged 2004 election dies suspiciously
Possibly the last words Carl Rove had with Michael Connell: "You can't play poker if you don't have any cards, Mr. Connell. You ever wonder what it would be like to, uh... die in a plane crash? Of botulism? Even a heart attack's not uncommon for a man your age. You think I'm bluffing?"
Man who set up alternate email for White House dies in plane crash - suspicious
Anyone affiliated with Karl Rove who turns up dead in the next five years should be investigated as a potential homicide. This guy is cleaning house.
Sock and Awe!
Hit W with as many shoes as you can.
Any website domain name suffixes could be possible after landmark vote | Media | guardian.co.uk
Just what I've been waiting for. Ha Ha! Get your .3000 domain now!
Israeli settlement property: A bad investment at any price
British citizens are to be formally advised by the government not to buy property in settlements in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories, a move that marks a proactive shift of its position on a core issue of the Middle East conflict.
Classified US Warlock Red and Warlock Green ECM Blue Force Communications Electromagnetic Compatibility Test Report, 2004 - Wikileaks
This 2004 report, classified SECRET and releasable only to cleared members of the United States, Australia, Canada, Great Britain and New Zealand military, demostrates that the primary US IED "jamming" system, also disables most US military communications. Consequently troops can communicate, or be protected from IEDs, but not both.

The liner notes

Add information about your site here. Maybe leave a little link back to me if you like. Drew3ooo runs on (aside from keen intellect and superior logic) Wordpress. The sleek layout, sparse use of color and elegant typography that make up this site's sexy, sexy design are based on the stylish theme "Modicus Remix" by Art Culture, which is a stripped-down take on the muscular version found at Upstart Blogger. Drew3000 by Andrew Ford Lyons is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.

drew3ooo

Browse Timeline

Related Entries

At the symphony

Worth Repeating

Survey

Look at this

Talking Points

Recently commented

Selected Articles by Yours Truly

AndrewFordLyons.com

Suggested Clicking

The liner notes