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Media Note
Office of the Spokesman
Washington, DC
March 30, 2004


Members of Iraq National Symphony Orchestra Return to the United States for Music Workshops in New York and Washington

Asst. Sec. Harrison introduces members of the Iraq National Symphony Orchestra performing with the Silk Road Ensemble, Carnegie Hall Weill Recital Hall, NYC. Photo © Chris Lee.The Department of State welcomes six members of the Iraq National Symphony Orchestra back to the United States for more than two weeks of training, master classes, meetings and cultural activities.  This trip follows the December 2003 visit to the United States of the entire Iraq National Symphony Orchestra, when it performed in a side-by-side concert at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts with the United States National Symphony Orchestra.

 

The six Iraq National Symphony Orchestra members are currently in New York City working with members of the New York Philharmonic.  The group, which includes five musicians and one librarian, comes to Washington, DC on March 31 for rehearsals and training sessions with members of the National Symphony Orchestra.  The group will return to New York City April 4 to continue their program of rehearsals with members of Silk Road Project, Inc, a project started by the Department of State’s CultureConnect Ambassador Yo-Yo Ma.  The program culminates with an informal, invitation-only workshop presentation concert at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York City,  April 8.

 

This return visit to the United States of orchestra members from Iraq is part of an ongoing series of exchanges with Iraq that has resumed in recent months, including the first group of Iraqi Fulbrighters in more than 14 years, and a group of Iraqi Museum Specialists training with employees of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.  These Iraqi exchange program participants are among the more than 30,000 annual exchanges managed by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. 

 

For more information about this exchange program or other ECA exchanges, please contact Adam Meier, (202) 203-7026 or Catherine Stearns (202) 203-5107.

 

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Released on March 30, 2004

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