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Composing the birthday celebrations

22.03.2007 / 00:00 CET
Aside from the events in Berlin, there are celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome wherever you look. In Belgium the prime minister's office has opted for a symposium on Saturday evening (24 March) full of learned contributions on the future of Europe, from such sages as Joseph Stiglitz, Giuliano Amato and Hans-Gert Pöttering while the foreign ministry has opted perhaps a little predictably for a performance of Beethoven's 9th Symphony at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in the afternoon.
Down in Luxembourg, the European Commission has arranged a concert on Sunday (25 March) with a rather more imaginative programme to be performed by the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
The line of European composers is Sibelius, Rossini, Satie, Schubert, Kodály and Beethoven. There are the makings of a parlour game there somewhere: can you devise a concert programme so that the composers and the title of the pieces cover all 27 member states? Bartok's Romanian Dances would be acceptable. Strauss's Danube Waltz would be cheating.

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