Article: For once, music offers needed balm in Mideast

Isabel Kershner The New York Times Media Group
International Herald Tribune
03-28-2009
For once, music offers needed balm in Mideast
Byline: Isabel Kershner The New York Times Media Group
Edition: 4
Section: NEWS

HOLON, Israel --

For just over an hour this week, a club for elderly Holocaust survivors in a side street in this suburban town south of Tel Aviv came alive with an extraordinary encounter.

A youth orchestra came to play for the elderly Israelis, a good turn that might pass in other countries as routine. In this case, though, the entertainers were Palestinians, a group of musicians 12 to 17 years old from the Jenin refugee camp, once a notorious hotbed of militancy and violence in ...

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