Between Iraq and a Hard Place

Between Iraq and a Hard Place

For 10 days last July, the streets of an Iraqi city were filled with sound -- not of explosions or air-raid alarms, but of music. Hundreds of Sunni, Shiite, and Kurdish youths from across the country gathered to study and perform Gershwin, Ellington, and Jackson, as well as Bach, Vivaldi, and tradit...

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