{"id":88864,"date":"2016-09-23T21:27:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T18:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=88864"},"modified":"2016-09-24T14:29:53","modified_gmt":"2016-09-24T11:29:53","slug":"saint-ephrem-the-syrian-patriarchal-choir-performs-at-damascus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=88864","title":{"rendered":"Saint Ephrem the Syrian Patriarchal Choir performs at Damascus-VIDEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damascus, SANA &#8211; The Patriarchal Choir Saint Ephrem the Syrian organized a musical performance at the stadium of al-Thawra Sports Club in al-Qasa&#8217;a area in Damascus, during which it launched the &#8220;love brings us together&#8221; initiative in cooperation with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).<\/p>\n<p>Accompanied by music from Adonia band, the Choir performed a variety of traditional and folk songs, all focusing on the theme of peace.<\/p>\n<p>Director of the initiative Shadi Sarwa told SANA that the initiative includes an &#8220;art contest for peace&#8221; for ages 16 to 30, and it involves composing and writing songs, sculpture, and writing poetry.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-88864 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/choir-4.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/choir-4-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Choir-2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Choir-2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/choir-3.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/choir-3-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/TBBhZnInQuQ<\/p>\n<p>Hazem Sabbagh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damascus, SANA &#8211; The Patriarchal Choir Saint Ephrem the Syrian organized a musical performance at the stadium of al-Thawra Sports Club in al-Qasa&#8217;a area in Damascus, during which it launched the &#8220;love brings us together&#8221; initiative in cooperation with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). Accompanied by music from Adonia band, the Choir performed a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6987,115],"tags":[2480,2240,2979,2033,11314,9040,11315],"class_list":["post-88864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-arts-culture","category-latest-news","category-local","tag-choir","tag-concert","tag-initiative","tag-music","tag-saint-ephrem-the-syrian-patriarchal-choir","tag-undp","tag-united-nations-development-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}