Welcome to 2009; C.L.E.G. is back!
From -13 C to the wonderful + 20 C of Cairo in few hours. What a change! It will take some time to thaw and sift through the bulk of papers and mails accumulated during the holidays but the Weekly Agenda will be ready for Friday at the latest. In the meantime I will post what I consider to be the highlights of the next few days, and I start ... with a BANG!
The celebrated East Western Diwan Orchestra, the brainchild of Daniel Baremboim and the late Edward Said performing in the Main Hall of Cairo Opera House tomorrow, Tuesday January 12, conducted by Baremboim himself?
Well, it sounds too good to be true, and probably, sadly, it isn't. News about this concert have appeared in a pair of websites and on the English edition of Al-Ahram Weekly, but most other sources feature for the same day a concert by the Guanajuato Symphony Orchestra from Mexico.
You would expect to solve the riddle consulting the website of the Opera House, but, while the concert of the Guanajuato Orchestra is rescheduled to Wednesday, there is no mention of any activity at the Main Hall on Tuesday.
Has the concert been cancelled (in view of recent events in Palestine, it would not be surprising)? Would it be an invitation-only private performance? Is it just a problem of communication?
I will try to sort it out and post the outcome as soon as I get it.
In the meantime, let's keep on dreaming.
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