LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For nearly six years, young Iraqis defied the war, coming from all over the country to play in an orchestra, but the emergence of Islamic State has dashed their dream of making music to bridge deadly sectarian divides.
The Iraqi National Youth Orchestra's story is told in a memoir by Paul MacAlindin, the band's conductor from its founding in 2009 until it was forced to stop playing in 2014, an end that left him "devastated and empty and very, very broken."
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