Shesh Besh at Temple Church
Temple Church, London 4 November 2009 A large audience enjoyed an intermingling of musics from the two traditions, classical Western and classical Arabian. A high point was a Fantasy on Saint-Saens' Samson & Delilah in which ney, kamanja, deff & and Darbuka drum joined with members of the Israel Philharmonic to deliciously exotic effect. This initiative, albeit smaller in scale than Barenboim's West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, is active in Israel's schools, an important agent for promoting inter-racial harmony and understanding. Shesh Besh has an unique and highly recommendable CD Collective Memory featuring compositions from composers of both communities. Peter Grahame Woolf
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