(3 Dec 2015) GERMANY AFGHAN CULTURE
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Berlin, Germany - 2 December 2015
1. Afghan musician and young boy on stage playing at concert at the German Historical Museum in Berlin, at opening of Afghan Culture Week
2. Afghan and German women playing violins
3. Afghan musicians, one playing drums
4. German and Afghan musicians playing drums, guitar and double bass
5. Wide of musicians on stage at concert
6. Afghan musicians on stage, one playing a rubab
7. Wide of stage and audience
++NIGHT SHOTS++
8. Exterior, Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani arriving, shaking hands with waiting German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier
9. Ghani and Steinmeier walking together inside
10. Ghani signing visitors' book
11. Cutaway camera
12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, Afghan President
"Our music is the product of centuries of interactivity. Each part of the instrument speaks to millennia, while simultaneously producing harmony."
++INTERIOR SHOTS++
13. Various of musicians playing concert
14. SOUNDBITE: (Dari) Ustad Fraidoon, Afghan musician:
"It was very difficult to prepare for this concert. We practised for 15 days to get ready."
15. Boy singing in concert
16. Various of audience listening to boy singing
17. Boy singing
18. SOUNDBITE: (Dari) Ustad Fraidoon, Afghan musician:
"Music is very important for building bridges between different cultures. Music doesn't have any boundaries, and people everywhere play music. So it is important."
19. Afghan musicians playing traditional instruments, they finish the piece to applause
20. Wide of musicians enjoying applause
21. Violinists playing
22. SOUNDBITE: (German) Gabriele Minz, organiser of Berlin's Afghan Culture Week:
"As organisers, the main challenge was to show a different side of Afghanistan. Normally you hear on the TV and radio about wars and about foreign troops going into the country, Germans going in, Americans going in. But there is a new, young generation in the country and they are involved in art and politics. That has been a massive development that we don't know about."
23. Afghan musician playing traditional drum
LEADIN:
A festival of Afghan culture has started in the German capital Berlin, with a concert attended by Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani.
Afghan culture week celebrates 100 years since the first formal diplomatic contact between the two countries, and it includes exhibitions, films and discussions.
STORYLINE:
One hundred years of history is being celebrated, rather fittingly, here at the German Historical Museum in Berlin.
An Afghan musician plays a Traditional flute called a 'Tola' and violins, played by Germans and Afghans, swell in unison.
The sounds of Afghan and western musical instruments come together to create a truly eclectic sound at this concert which launches Afghan Culture Week.
Musicians from the Afghanistan National Institute of Music and from the University of Music in Weimar play together on stage, and the melodies they create fuse German and Afghan music.
Here a man plucks the strings of the lute-like rubab, with its distinctive tear drop shape, known in Aghanistan as "the lion of instruments".
This musical feast is the first event in a five-day festival of Afghan culture on the German capital Berlin.
Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani joined German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier at the concert.
Traditional Western instruments, the double bass, the drum kit and the electric guitar play along with syncopated Afghan rhythms.
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