Gaza’s musicians reopen bomb-shattered conservatory – in tents
Even though most of their instruments have been destroyed, teachers are restarting classes, using music to give relief to traumatised people The three tents line
Even though most of their instruments have been destroyed, teachers are restarting classes, using music to give relief to traumatised people The three tents line a stretch of overcrowded, windswept sand, their windows open on to a view of the breaking waves of the Mediterranean.
From inside comes the sound of singing, a strummed guitar, a violin and then a flute. But if the music evokes calm and harmony, the surroundings do not: rows of crowded makeshift shelters swelter in Gaza’s summer heat, young children picking their way through rubble, battered cars and pony carts clogging a potholed road.
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