Klarinet Archive - Posting 000628.txt from 2003/07

From: blarsen@-----.net (=?iso-8859-1?q?Bj=F8rn?= Hell Larsen)
Subj: Re: [kl] OFF Topic: Political postings
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 03:18:09 -0400

"Patricia A. Smith" <patricia@-----.net> writes:

> David Dow wrote:
>
> >I also think we don't need a McDonald's in Bagdad....
> >
> I doubt McDonalds would last long, even if they DID open one. Not a
> good business decision if you ask me.
>
> What I'd LIKE to know is what happened to the Iraq Symphony? What of
> those musicians who were doing the job they hired - under Saddam, at
> least - even when it was difficult to make ends meet? What of those
> folks? This isn't politics in the abstract - these folks and others'
> lives were affected by what has gone on there. Has there been any
> word on the Iraq Symphony?

I don't know about the Iraq Symphony, but the Baghdad School of Music
was looted just following its liberation. No people were hurt, but all
the instruments were stolen or destroyed (apparently, and idiotically,
mostly the latter).

The school received a shipment of used instruments from Norway a
couple of months prior to the looting. Because of this the
incident received pretty wide coverage in the Norwegian press.

Bjørn
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