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Music at the heart of the cycle of life

Elizabeth Sombart

Following the 1st round of piano concerts offered back in April 2018, the Order of Malta Lebanon through its partnership with the Resonnance Foundation and supported by Societe General de Banque au Liban, pursued its beautiful journey across the sounds of music.

Between August 29 and September 4, Elizabeth Sombart and Fabrice Eulry joined hands to offer seven piano concerts that illuminated the hearts and souls of youngsters, adults, elders whether healthy, disabled, sick or recovering.

Fabrice Eulry, international composer and piano artist, offered with tremendous generosity exhilarating jazz and blues rhythms to Oum El Nours recovering addicts, to the youth of Beb el Tebbene and Jabal Mohsen reunited by the initiative of March at Kahwetna Caf in Tripoli; to the community of Khaldieh and its surroundings with a concert organized by the Order of Malta Community Health Center in Khaldieh and finally to the disabled at the Order of Malta Chabrouh camp at the occasion of its 20th anniversary. Each performance was unique as he deeply connected with the audiences and transported all into the light.

Elizabeth Sombart played the remaining concerts gracefully embarking all on a spiritual voyage.

The sounds of Bach, Mozart, Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Beethoven stemming from under our beautiful cedar in the Order of Malta camp in Kfardebian Center healed first our disabled guests. They travelled then to comfort children enduring cancer treatments at the St. Jude Children Cancer Center and reached in the end elders suffering from Alzheimers disease to sooth their minds at Minerva Day Care Center for Alzheimers.

Quoting the President of the Order of Malta Lebanon Love brings people together and it does not discriminate between gender, religion or skin color. We cannot rebuild Lebanon unless we learn to reunite as one beating heart.