WEST BANK: Italian and Palestinian musicians perform at Bethlehem's Nativity Church

Record ID: 561518

  • Title: WEST BANK: Italian and Palestinian musicians perform at Bethlehem's Nativity Church
  • Date: 21st December 2008
  • Summary: SBETHLEHEM, WEST BANK (DECEMBER 20, 2008) (REUTERS) (NIGHT SHOTS) WIDE OF PALESTINIAN AND ITALIAN MUSICIANS PERFORMING INSIDE THE NATIVITY CHURCH TO CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS VARIOUS OF SINGERS PERFORMING VARIOUS OF MUSICIANS PERFORMING (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) PALESTINIAN SOPRANO SINGER, ENAS MASSALHA, SAYING: "Our message tonight, is a message of peace, love, understanding, hope, trust, honest to be in our country. It was important for me to perform this message." VARIOUS OF ORCHESTRA PLAYING AUDIENCE CLAPPING (SOUNDBITE) (English) ITALIAN MUSICIAN, GEORGE, SAYING: "I think peaceful, on all people, all people of the world and natural." VARIOUS OF MUSICIANS PLAYING (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) AUDIENCE MEMBER, SAWSAN SHOMLI, SAYING: "The concert was very nice, the people, the place, the performance, the music are all nice. Even all the songs were not in the Arabic language but it was very emotional." VARIOUS OF CONDUCTOR FACING ORCHESTRA VARIOUS OF ORCHESTRA PLAYING
  • Embargoed: 5th January 2009 12:00
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  • Topics: Religion
  • Reuters ID: LVA1N5MOQ2B9V8Z1NHPSH6NQB0ZS
  • Story Text: Italian and Palestinian musicians joined vocals and instruments in a Baroque concert inside the Nativity Church in the town of Bethlehem in the West Bank on Saturday (December 20).
    The concert was held in the run-up for Christmas, as preparations were underway in the church revered by Christians as Jesus's birth place.
    Italian musicians of "Cappella della Piets dei Turchini di Napoli", a Baroque orchestra from Naples, played classical pieces conducted by Maestro Antonio Florio.
    The concert, titled "The concert for Life and Peace", was attended by Palestinian residents and foreign visitors.

    "Our message tonight is a message of peace, love, understanding, hope, trust, honest to be in our country. It was important for me to perform this message," said Palestinian Soprano singer, Enas Massalha.

    "I think peaceful, on all people, all people of the world and natural," said George, an Italian Musician.
    The concert was initiated by the Italian Association for Life and Peace, and produced by the Museum of Italian Jewish Art in Jerusalem..

    "The concert was very nice, the people, the place, the performance, the music are all nice. Even all the songs were not in arabic language but it was very emotional," Sawsan Shomali, member of Audience, said.
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