The Road To Ramallah

Rehearsals started in earnest with two orchestras, the Youth Orchestra, and the Ramallah Orchestra.  I had been giving lessons during the days of our faculty rehearsals and concerts - and now we were ready to try playing all...

And some of Ibrahim’s family

Going in to school one morning, the door of number 53 was open. Ibrahim is a percussionist at the school, and this is his home. The ground was strewn with what looked like green leaves, and his entire family was busy at work stripping the leaves from the stalks. These...

....was a performance at the Friends Meeting House in Ramallah. Our final faculty concert: Dvorak American String Quartet, the first movement from the Schubert String Quintet in C, an arrangement of ‘Breeze’ by Marcel Khalife, and two pieces by Ramzi Aburedwan -...

Al Kamandjati is celebrating its tenth anniversary in 2012 and has been generating a lot of interest these recent years. This is the Italian crew, preparing a film for the said anniversary, there is also a Japanese crew and a British one.

Baroque music tonight. During the two week festival - there are around 60 performances around the area.