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The Artistic Elegance in Diplomacy

“Without music, life would be a mistake” These were the words spoken by German philosopher and poet; Friedrich Nietzsche. After the end of World War two, Composer and Conductor Igor Markevitch created the the Jeunesses Musicales World Orchestra as a symbol of hope. In 1950 the U.S State Department promoted jazz legends Dizzy Gillespie and Louis Armstrong to create cross cultural understanding in the middle of a cold war between the Americans and Russians. In 1958 despite his enemy status by the Russians American Pianist Van Cliburn won the first International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow and became and adorned figure in Russia. And in 1964 renowed cellist Mstislav Rostropovich played the notes Bach’s Suite No 2 of the praising God for the “miracle” in remembrance of the fall of the Berlin Wall which occurred in 1989. The Ninth Symphony by Beethoven which hailed to be the National Anthem of the European Union had a statement to be made which avowed freedom for the de...