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Amman, Jordan is a city of the old and the new, the ancient and the modern, all drifting together as pieces of a big unexpected puzzle. Roman ruins stand next to modern hotels and shops, florescent lights shine from the tops of tattered mosques, and older women wrapped in headscarves walk hand-in-hand with children dressed in American Eagle T-shirts. All of these were first time images for me when, on February 16, I and 17 of my Fayetteville Symphony colleagues, plus Music Director Fouad Fakhouri, traveled from our home state of North Carolina to Jordan. It was a busy trip, [...]
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