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Article: Playing to all in harmony; a look back ... UN Day concerts.
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- UN Chronicle
- Article date:
- March 1, 1990
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On 24 October, the sometimes dissonant voices speaking in many languages on political topics of all persuasions fall silent, and the walls of the General Assembly Hall at UN Headquarters reverberate with the harmonious chords and notes of world-class musicians. The occasion is UN Day, when music becomes the universal language.
Conductors Leonard Bernstein, Sir Georg Solti, Dimitri Mitropoulous, Eugene Ormandy, Seiji Ozawa and Zubin Mehta are among the music world's diplomats who have led orchestras UN podium. The great cellist-conductor Pablo Casals, violinists David Oistrakh and Jascha Heifetz, pianists Claudio Arrau and Alicia de Larrocha, singers Renata ...