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West-Eastern Divan Orchestra

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Corporate name headingWest-Eastern Divan Orchestra
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Variant(s)Orchestre du Divan occidental-oriental
West-Östliches Divan Orchester
Orquesta del Divan de Oriente y Occidente
Beginning date1999
LocatedSeville (Spain)
Found inTchaikovsky, P. Symphony no. 5 [SR] p2005: container (West-Eastern Divan Orchestra; Daniel Barenboim established the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra with the late Palestinian writer Edward Said in order to bring together young musicians from across the political divide in the Middle East)
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. Live in Ramallah [SR] p2005: container (West-Eastern Divan Orchestra) insert (Orchestre du Divan occidental-oriental; das West-Östliche Divan Orchester; Orquesta del Divan de Oriente y Occidente)
Wikipedia, January 22, 2014 (West-Eastern Divan Orchestra; youth orchestra based in Seville, Spain, consisting of musicians from countries in the Middle East, of Egyptian, Iranian, Israeli, Jordanian, Lebanese, Palestinian, Syrian, and Spanish background; founded in 1999 by Daniel Barenboim and Edward Said; named after an anthology of poems by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)