Interfaith Dialogue
Jerusalem youth use music to break down walls
Aaron Shneyer
During the escalation of violence in Gaza, Sderot and the neighbouring communities, Heartbeat met at my apartment. The polarising effects of the events were evident as only six of the students attended our weekly rehearsal. Sitting on my staircase, drawn there by the resonant acoustics, Ron, Sameera, and Fouad, were crafting a song without lyrics, the dijeridoo leading the trio in an aboriginal, Middle-Eastern trance jam around the theme of creation. Listening to each other improvising on a song that follows the human experience through three movements – creation, war, and peace – these three teenagers tore down every barrier. Here they began to make their impact. The unique power of a music-dialogue project is that music can reach far beyond the room where it is first created. The group would only gauge its potential impact by extending their experience into the community through a public performance or song on the radio.
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