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| The Al Bustan International Festival of Music and the Arts |
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| 12th February - 16th March 2008 |
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| Since the Al Bustan Festival was founded in 1994, it has established in Lebanon a unique and unprecedented tradition of a music season in winter.
The founders wished to revive the cultural life of a country reemerging after seventeen years of war. The Festival has indeed reached its objective, presenting each year more than thirty performances over a five week period in February and March. With a predominance of chamber music, the Festival also includes opera, orchestral concerts, choral concerts, dance, marionettes and theatre. Amongst the many artists who have taken part in the Festival are: Olaf Baer, Maria Ewing, Elena Prokina, Angelika Kirschlager, Vadim Repin, the Labeque sisters, Boris Berezovsky, Evelyn Glennie, Jean-Claude Malgoire, Friedemann Layer and the Montpellier Philharmonic Orchestra, the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Medici, Skampa, Belcea, Chilingirian, Takacs and Leipzig quartets... | |
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Festival Website
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