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Music
Georges Kazazian, oud player and composer, will perform next Thursday, 16 June at the Genaina Theatre in Azhar Park
On Saturday, 11 June at the Cairo Opera House Main Hall and Sunday, 12 June at the Alexandria Opera House, Cairo Symphony orchestra will perform works by Rachmaninoff and Beethoven with piano soloist Mohamed Shams
A celebratory event will take place in Tahrir Sqaure next Friday for the anniversary of the composer's death
On Monday 30 May, Cairo Opera House gave a concert commemorating martyrs and those wounded during the January 25 Revolution with a programme including music and dance performances
On Saturday 4 June, Cairo Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ahmed El Saedi, invites audience to it's regular Saturday concert, this time performing works by Mozart, Danzi and Beethoven
On Friday 27 May, Alexandria Opera House String Orchestra conducted by Hassan Sharara, will perform at the Alexandria Opera House (Sayed Darwish Theatre)
Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, beloved by Egyptian audiences, will be performed by the Cairo Symphony Orchestra at the Cairo Opera House on Saturday 28 May, along with Elgar's famous cello concerto
Between 18 and 22 May (except 21 May), Cairo Opera House Main Hall will give it's stage to Verdi's opera 'Un ballo in maschera'
The Cairo Symphony Orchestra concert that took place on 4 June at the Cairo Opera House Main Hall was one of those rare evenings offering the audience a balanced diet of programming  
On 28 May, Cairo Symphony Orchestra conducted by Hisham Gabr, was acclaimed and given a standing ovation after the performance of two masterpieces of the classical music: Elgar's Cello Concerto and Korsakov's Scheherazade

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The Dreams Recorder group performed their first concert in Egypt on Thursday at Al Azhar park. The project, born in Tunis, brings together Egyptian and Tunisian artists with the aim of starting a new trend in music

Cairo Choral Society and Cairo Festival Orchestra, conducted by John Baboukis, performed Schubert's Mass in G on 17 May at All Saints’ Cathedral in Zamalek and at Ewart Hall of the American University in Cairo the next day

On 24 May, the Jesuit Culture Centre was vibrating with positive energy and joy as over fifty singers and musicians of the Choir Project enchanted the audience with their singing

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Roger Waters revives Pink Floyd's album The Wall and pays tribute to victims of war and brutality in a concert held at the O2 arena in London on 18 May

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