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Iraq Unity Academy Videos

Selection of Videos from Hip Hop, Ballet, Broadway, Symphonic and Jazz performances at American Voices historic Unity Performing Arts Academy in Erbil, Iraq July 13 to 23, 2007

Please also view an ABC Nightly News Report on the Unity Academy.

TitleDurationFilesizeFilename
Rhythm Nation
Live performance by over 100 dancers from Baghdad, Erbil and Suleimanya, Iraq
4'20'' 24083040 Click to Download
I Got Rhythm
Gershwin's immortal song performed by over 100 Iraqi and American dancers and actors
4'40'' 21588945 Click to Download
White Lions
A stunning hip hop choreography by the city of Suleimaniya's dance group, The White Lions
3'57'' 18385775 Click to Download
Baghdad Ballet
The youthful dancers of Baghdad's School of Music and Dance perform to Mozart's Concerto for Flute and Harp
2'40'' 11768561 Click to Download
Hand Jive
Broadway comes to Iraq in this hit from 'Grease' performed by Erbil's teen theater groups
3'28'' 16398198 Click to Download
Wizard of Oz
We're Off to See the Wizard! with Erbil's children's theater groups
2'30'' 10535746 Click to Download
Bring 'em Out
Hip Hop takes Erbil by storm in this energetic performance
3'30'' 20460518 Click to Download
Forgy Morning in Dillard
The Unity Big Band under Gene Aitken performs this jazz classic
5'52'' 37997309 Click to Download
Medley - Chalabia & C-Jam-Blues & Ashgar Bshama
Werner Englert Builds Jazz Bridges to Arabia in these performances with the musicians of the Iraq National Folkdance Company
8'02'' 43310991 Click to Download
Kurdish Folk Song
Jazz Bridges to Kurdistan with our jazz students from Erbil and Suleimaniya
7'08'' 38444179 Click to Download
Duke Ellington
The Iraq National Symphony Orchestra Gives a Rousing Performances of Ellington's 'It Don't Mean a Thing If It Aint' Got that Swing'
2'17'' 11562992 Click to Download
Asa's Tod Grieg
The Iraq National Symphony Orchestra Performs Grieg's 'Asa's Tod' from the 'Peer Gynt Suite'
4'06'' 14870165 Click to Download
Requiem
A Moving Performance by the INSO of an Iraqi Requiem conducted by Mohammed Amin
4'24'' 20198333 Click to Download
Old Man River
Michael Parks Masterson joins with the INSO to perform this Broadway favorite by Jerome Kern
3'38'' 16934776 Click to Download
Unity Youth Orchestra
Allegra Klein leads the Unity Youth Orchestra in a Chamber Orchestra arrangement of an Iraqi Folk Song
2'02'' 8790796 Click to Download
Vivaldi Concerto in b Minor
Violinist Marc Thayer leads a chamber orchestra in Iraq's first performance in Baroque Style
4'27'' 22141184 Click to Download
Holberg Suite
The Suleimaniya String Orchestra under the baton of Najat Ameen performs excerpts from Grieg's Holberg Suite
3'05'' 18480213 Click to Download
Bald Mountain
The Unity Orchestra, uniting Iraq's four symphony orchestras, performs 'Night on Bald Mountain'
2'45'' 20879240 Click to Download
Viking Symphony
The Unity Orchestra performs excerpts from Najat Ameen's 'Viking Symphony'
4'20'' 26023766 Click to Download
Iraqi Folk Song
The Unity Orchestra performs 'The Iraqi Bolero'! The orchestral arrangement of the folk song, 'Pass By Us When You Leave'
6'54'' 38791665 Click to Download
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