The three performances were taken on the basis of the bestowal of Bozar from the Brussels cultural center and a concert with the Israeli conductor Lahav Shani was programmed. He met Mohamed Ouachen, Minister of State Jos Geysels (Groen) and Els Silvrants-Barclay, as reported by VRT.
Bron: Belga/VRT NWS
Begin my conversation with Bozar in a concert by the Filharmonisch Orkest from Munich and the suffering of the Israeli conductor Lahav Shani. A decision has been made to open the door to the Israeli-Palestine conflict before controversy arises.
For Mohamed Ouachen he comes to Bozar in a stap te ver. “Lahav Shani is never a conductor,” he writes. “Hij is musical director of the Filharmonisch Orkest van Israel, a country was marked by Amnesty International as genocide and the Internationaal Gerechtshof as apartheid.” Ouachen vindt the uitnodiging of Shani vandaag, in the huge geopolitieke context, hoe then also a politieke keuze is.
In the raad van bestuur blijven zou voor hem aanvoelen as “goedkeuring geven” voor iets that his resoluut afwijst. Ouachen benadrukt that his respect heeft voor het tax and zijn collegia’s.
With Geysels and Silvrants-Barclay there are two people on the road from the best room. Volgens VRT took place in both hun beslissing and april al kenbaar.
After the programming of the new concert in Bozar, the director of the installation, Christophe Slagmuylder, took part in the discussions with the Filharmonisch Orkest from Munich and Shani at the beginning of 2025 in the gang, from the “enkele maanden before the situation in Ghent”.
“We had on the other hand to open up, so we had to overrule everything, we just came to the conclusion that he had his grandchildren talk about what he had to say,” said the director of Bozar at that time.
