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  • Baghdad Concert Features Donated Steinway Piano

    02/19/2004 10:48:46 AM PST · by Calpernia · 12 replies · 289+ views
    American Forces Press Service ^ | Feb. 19, 2004 | By Donna Miles
    If music is the universal language, then the message emanating from a Steinway concert grand piano at a concert today in Baghdad, Iraq, was one of friendship and support. The Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra performed its first concert today at the Baghdad Convention Center since its new grand piano arrived last month. Steinway & Sons offered to donate the piano after the orchestra performed here with the Washington National Symphony Orchestra. Steinway responded to a National Endowment for the Arts plea for companies to donate instruments to the Iraqi orchestra, which floundered under Saddam Hussein. Once the donation was made,...