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How exactly does a nation recover from the real-ities of war? Living in the United States, a coun-try that is often the aggressor when it comes torecent wars, it’s hard to answer thatquestion. The (http://nyoiinfo.wix.com/nyoiraq)National Yourth Orchestra of Iraq (http://nyoiin-fo.wix.com/nyoiraq) seems to know what’s up.Have you ever heard of them? From a nation stillrecovering from the scars of a war waged on it inthe name of ‘democracy’ and decades of oppres-sion before then, comes one of the most democ-ratic forms of art – an orchestra. Did I mentionthey’re prepping to perform in the UnitedStates?

(http://thrivalroom.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Iraq-Youth-Orches-tra.jpg) The Orchestra, who earned a specialcommendation in 2011′s International MusicCouncil’s Musical Rights Awards, have started akickstarter campaign (https://www.kickstarter.-com/projects/1489654862/national-youth-or-chestra-of-iraq-american-debut) to fund a debutin the country that went looking for oil orweapons of mass destruction orterrorist democracy in the region a little over adecade ago.

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Founded by pianist Zuhal Sultan (https://twit-ter.com/ZuhalSultan), the orchestra featuressome of the best musicians from a country tornapart by internal and external violence. And ifthis performence from Beethovenfest in 2012 isany indication of their talent, they are capable ofproducing some very beautiful and moving mu-sic.

The orchestra can be followed on twitter here(https://twitter.com/nyoiraq), and on facebookhere (https://www.facebook.com/NYO.IRAQ).

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