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A broken piano in front of the School of Music and Ballet in Baghdad
Slow Return of the Arts in Baghdad
Story aired: Friday, April 18, 2003



Dick Gordon, host of the NPR show "The Connection," speaks to us from Baghdad about the gradual resumption of music and arts in the Iraqi capital now that the war is winding down.


Related Links:


Read Dick's Field Report about Baghdad Music

Iraq's Heritage Endangered, by John Russell.

From November, a BBC report about the struggles, even then, for the Orchestra.
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