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<DIV><FONT size=3 face="Courier New">Don't know anything about Said's link with
GG, but after a chance hotel lobby encounter with the Argentine-Israeli
conductor Daniel Barenboim, Said (a talented pianist) and Barenboim established
the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in 1999. The youth orchestra recruits and
trains Palestinian and Israeli kids, and performs concerts when and where
government and military restrictions permit. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3 face="Courier New">To express it charitably, it's
extraordinarily difficult, unpleasant, sometimes even hazardous to transport and
assemble a hundred kids and their adult music teachers from the many different
religions and ethnicities in this hyperpolarized region for a unified artistic
and educational goal. To attend a Divan concert, you can expect to
encounter more military checkpoints, assault weapons and war-zone barriers than
at an evening at Concertgebouw or Carnegie Hall.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3 face="Courier New">Barenboim and Said didn't care. When
they said "The show must go on!", they weren't kidding.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3 face="Courier New">The first conclusion most reach from a
superficial "CNN" reading of the Middle East is that this is a permanent Slough
of Hopelessness. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3 face="Courier New">But a closer look shows an unbroken history
of famous, beloved and idealistic loonies from all the faiths, nationalities and
ethnicities who refuse to surrender to the hatred and hostility that appear to
be The Official Program.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3 face="Courier New">In Said and Barenboim, we have a
couple of loonies bringing Peace to the Middle East to a background of children
making beautiful music.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3 face="Courier New">A good Yom Kippur to all! At Ramadan's end,
I wished Eid Mubarak to all </FONT></DIV>
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href="http://vleeptronz.blogspot.com/2012/08/vleeptron-wishes-all-eid-mubarak-with.html"><FONT
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face="Courier New">http://vleeptronz.blogspot.com/2012/08/vleeptron-wishes-all-eid-mubarak-with.html</FONT></A></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3 face="Courier New">And every Christmas I gripe about how
hard it is for pilgrims to visit Bethlehem. This is just no way to celebrate the
Prince of Peace's birthday.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3 face="Courier New">Bob<BR>Massachusetts USA</FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=maryellenjensen28@hotmail.com
href="mailto:maryellenjensen28@hotmail.com">maryellen jensen</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=f_minor@glenngould.org
href="mailto:f_minor@glenngould.org">f_minor@glenngould.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, September 25, 2012 9:27
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [f_minor] Quiet in
Radioland</DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial></FONT><FONT face=Arial></FONT><BR><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" size=3>No one else has mentioned it: Edward Said died
on September 25th, 2003 in NYC. </FONT><BR><BR><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"
size=3>Edward Said was a staunch defender of Gould. It seems impossible that
there exists<BR>no correspondence between the two men but there is none.
<BR><BR><BR>Mary Jensen<BR></FONT></DIV>
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