World's bravest orchestra plays on in Iraq
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When the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra (INSO) holds a concert in Baghdad, organizers don't like to advertise: in fact they would prefer as few people as possible know about it.
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Iraqâs successful Olympic soccer team is preparing itself for its biggest sporting challenge at the Athens 2004 Olympics. On Tuesday night, Iraqi players will play against Paraguay in the Olympics football semi-finals.
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PIRAEUS, Greece -- Instead of playing for their lives under a torturous regime, Iraq's soccer vagabonds played as though they had the time of their lives last night.
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Attacks in Iraq on U.S.-led forces, local security personnel and civilians have surged 22 percent to record levels, the Pentagon said in its latest quarterly report on Iraq published on Monday.
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Keith Greene remembers the sandstorms, the swirling red clouds that left grit in everything. Joe Goellner recounts building schools for Iraqi children. Raffi Bahadarian describes fighting to help protect his comrades.
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TAIYEH, Iraq -- The distress call rang out over the radio. In the midst of one of the largest current military operations in Iraq, Capt. Mike Stinchfield recognized this was, so far, his most urgent mission of the day.
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Both Iraqi unity and global engagement may get a boost.
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U.S. soldiers sent to beef up security in Baghdad were seen for the first time on the streets of the capital Saturday as Iraqi police used loudspeakers to reassure people that the Americans were there to protect them.
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The New York Philharmonic's concert in North Korea next month is to be broadcast live worldwide, the orchestra announced Wednesday.
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"Die Walkuere" holds the raw material of Wagner caricature: horned helmets, spears, endless scenes and "Ride of the Valkyries." But Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic swept past all that Monday with a cleanly staged, beautifully played performance at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.
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In Iraq on Friday, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld witnessed a wide variety of special forces, commando, police and regular military units that are learning how to take over the fight against the resilient insurgency.
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On the heels of plans by the New York Philharmonic to perform in North Korea comes word that the 120-member North Korea State Symphony Orchestra is to play two concerts in England. The Guardian of London reported that after three years of planning and organizing, that orchestra will perform in September at the Royal Festival Hall in London and in Middlesbrough in northeast England. The visit was described as the âbrainchildâ of the opera singer Suzannah Clarke, who, in 2003, became the first British singer to perform in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea. The newspaper said that she had suggested that her hosts invite other foreign musicians to North Korea and send its orchestra abroad. Ms. Clarke comes from Middlesbrough.
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Iraqi doctor turned filmmaker Omer  Salih Mahdi had the strange experience of seeing his life  portrayed on stage this weekend at a preview performance of  "Betrayed," a play about Iraqis who worked for Americans.
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LOS ANGELES  - The drum beats for the  war in Iraq had begun by the time the NBC period drama  "American Dreams" premiered in fall 2002.
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The Halle Orchestra, one of Great Britain's oldest symphony orchestras, has not toured the United States in more than a decade, so spirits were high when the group secured dates at Lincoln Center and in Upstate New York for performances last winter.
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Attacks in Iraq on U.S.-led forces, local security personnel and civilians in the three months to November 10 have surged 22 percent over the previous three months to reach an all-time high, the Pentagon said in its latest quarterly report on Iraq published on Monday.
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Kristjan Jarviâs ensemble supported and furthered the eveningâs explorations of world music with a robust and often free-blowing sound.