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29-Feb-2016
00:02:03
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra as a United Nations Global Advocate for Cultural Understanding. UNTV CH
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SOURCE: UNTV CH
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 29 FEBRUARY 2016, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / RECENT
TRT: 02:03
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 29 FEBRUARY 2016, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / RECENT
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RECENT, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Various shots, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra performing at Human Rights Council
29 FEBRUARY 2016, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
2. Med shot, SG handing over certificate to Daniel Barenboim
3. Close up, Certificate
RECENT, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
4. Zoom in, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra performing at Human Rights Council
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Daniel Barenboim, UN Messenger of Peace:
“Music cannot be used for something else. Music in the end is an end in itself from which we can learn and adapt what we learn from the music for something else.”
6. Wide shot, Barenboim conducting West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Daniel Barenboim, UN Messenger of Peace:
“They have learned through the necessity of curiosity, they have learned to listen to the other and to have respect for the narrative of the other. Then, of course, when they spend all day long trying to make music together, playing together the same notes, in the same volume, with the same quality of sound, trying to do the same, the same, the same, eventually, the differences at least mentally get softer.”
8. Various shots, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra performing at Human Rights Council
1. Various shots, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra performing at Human Rights Council
29 FEBRUARY 2016, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
2. Med shot, SG handing over certificate to Daniel Barenboim
3. Close up, Certificate
RECENT, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
4. Zoom in, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra performing at Human Rights Council
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Daniel Barenboim, UN Messenger of Peace:
“Music cannot be used for something else. Music in the end is an end in itself from which we can learn and adapt what we learn from the music for something else.”
6. Wide shot, Barenboim conducting West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Daniel Barenboim, UN Messenger of Peace:
“They have learned through the necessity of curiosity, they have learned to listen to the other and to have respect for the narrative of the other. Then, of course, when they spend all day long trying to make music together, playing together the same notes, in the same volume, with the same quality of sound, trying to do the same, the same, the same, eventually, the differences at least mentally get softer.”
8. Various shots, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra performing at Human Rights Council
STORYLINE
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today (29 Feb) appointed the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra as a United Nations Global Advocate for Cultural Understanding.
The designation took place at an event at the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG), attended by the Secretary-General and by the world-renowned conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim who is the Orchestra’s co-founder and a UN Messenger of Peace.
The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) will support the Orchestra in its mandate as Global Advocate to promote tolerance, understanding and unity among peoples of different cultural and religious identities.
Barenboim said that “music cannot be used for something else. Music in the end is an end in itself from which we can learn and adapt what we learn from the music for something else”.
He said the musicians in the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra “have learned to listen to the other and to have respect for the narrative of the other. Then, of course, when they spend all day long trying to make music together, playing together the same notes, in the same volume, with the same quality of sound, trying to do the same, the same, the same, eventually, the differences at least mentally get softer.”
Co-founded by Barenboim and the late Palestinian scholar Edward Said in 1999, the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra unites young musicians from Israel, Palestine and several Arab countries to promote inter-cultural dialogue through music. The Orchestra has performed at the main international festivals and music centres, as well as at the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations in New York, and the Human Rights Council Room in Geneva.
The designation took place at an event at the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG), attended by the Secretary-General and by the world-renowned conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim who is the Orchestra’s co-founder and a UN Messenger of Peace.
The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) will support the Orchestra in its mandate as Global Advocate to promote tolerance, understanding and unity among peoples of different cultural and religious identities.
Barenboim said that “music cannot be used for something else. Music in the end is an end in itself from which we can learn and adapt what we learn from the music for something else”.
He said the musicians in the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra “have learned to listen to the other and to have respect for the narrative of the other. Then, of course, when they spend all day long trying to make music together, playing together the same notes, in the same volume, with the same quality of sound, trying to do the same, the same, the same, eventually, the differences at least mentally get softer.”
Co-founded by Barenboim and the late Palestinian scholar Edward Said in 1999, the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra unites young musicians from Israel, Palestine and several Arab countries to promote inter-cultural dialogue through music. The Orchestra has performed at the main international festivals and music centres, as well as at the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations in New York, and the Human Rights Council Room in Geneva.
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