“Shining Hope: The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and the Power of Music,” features 15 years of photographs by Divan violinist Georges Yammine

Corso Verlag has published Funkelnde Hoffnung - Das West-Eastern Divan Orchestra und die Kraft der Musik (Shining Hope: The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and the Power of Music), a new collection of photographs by Divan violinist Georges Yammine. For 15 years, Yammine has photographed members of the West-Eastern Divan, and the fruits of his labor are now assembled in a new book that comprises 95 of his images. "I wanted to bring out each musician in a different compositional structure,” says Yammine, who is a violinist both with the Divan and the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestras. "Music is made up of harmony and dynamics, and I wanted to show that in the pictures.” On photographing Divan co-founder Daniel Barenboim, Georges remarks: "I am very glad that I was able to show here that this legendary musician is also a very humorous person… part of a family with us at the Divan. In contrast to the image that is on the cover of my book, I also just tried to show the great musician. I think that I was able to achieve that.” Order the book now.  

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