I think the conflictual situation in Palestine is central to the problem in the whole area where old cutural links are breaking under impossible tensions. You may consider your attempts to help people find or keep open such cultural links as "lofty and naîve", but any such effort, I am sure is worthwhile in this rapidly darkening situation.
I think Arto is right in thinking that grave political errors can have consequences even for lutists (and lutists can not be politically neutral, just because they are musicians); but I would like to believe that you are right iif you consider that a music list is the place for keeping dialogue open, and looking for common values even between potential enemies. Anthony Le 27 janv. 07 à 13:51, Doc Rossi a écrit : > Thank you, Anthony, for your thoughtful and thought-provoking summary. > > I believe musicians caught up in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict > also have their share of problems, like oudist Samir Joubran, for > example, who cannot perform in most of the Arab world because he is > an Israeli citizen. I have met two different Israeli singers (both > women, and their names escape me at the moment) who have had long- > term working relationships with Palestinian musicians. One is here > in France, the other in Rome. > > The organization I'm playing for now, J.A.DE, was founded to > demonstrate the many links among Mediterranean peoples in music, > poetry and dance. A lofty perhaps even naive proposal for some, but > it is something we can do. > > Doc Rossi > To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
