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margin: 0px; mso-line-height-alt: 150%;"><em><strong><span style="color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 14px"><span style="font-family: 'Lora', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif">“By cancelling these concerts, the management of the Concertgebouw placates a vocal minority who advocate for their cause through intimidation and credible threats of disorder and violence. […] Anything less than permitting the Jerusalem Quartet to continue with its planned performances — and to provide them and the audience of the Concertgebouw with protection and support — amounts to pure moral cowardice.”</span></span></span></strong></em></p><p class="mcePastedContent last-child" style="line-height: 1.25; mso-line-height-alt: 125%;"><span style="color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 14px"><span style="font-family: 'Lora', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif">Petition statement</span></span></span></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px" valign="top" class="mceGutterContainer" id="gutterContainerId-145"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:separate" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0" valign="top"><table width="100%" style="border-width:5px;border-style:outset;border-color:#b01f7d;background-color:#ebebeb;border-radius:15px;border-collapse:separate"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-left:16px;padding-right:16px;padding-top:12px;padding-bottom:21px" class="mceTextBlockContainer"><div data-block-id="145" class="mceText" id="dataBlockId-145" style="width:100%"><p style="line-height: 1.25; mso-line-height-alt: 125%;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size: 14px"><span style="font-family: 'Lora', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif">The reinstated concert sold out, featuring quartets by </span></span></span><strong><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size: 14px"><span style="font-family: 'Lora', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif">Debussy and Paul Ben-Haim</span></span></span></strong><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size: 14px"><span style="font-family: 'Lora', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif">, and reviews that admired its ‘lyricism and vitality’. </span></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.25; mso-line-height-alt: 125%; text-align: center;" class="last-child"><a href="https://jewishliteraryfoundation.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=afc6346993e8da54250d4cd30&id=b7015ef128&e=9da8a37a61" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px"><span style="font-family: 'Lora', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif">WATCH THE FULL CONCERT</span></span></strong></a></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td style="padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0" valign="top" class="mceColumn" data-block-id="141" colspan="6" width="50%"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px" valign="top" class="mceGutterContainer" id="gutterContainerId-130"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:separate" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0" valign="top"><table width="100%" style="border-width:5px;border-style:outset;border-color:#f05e24;background-color:#d65928;border-radius:15px;border-collapse:separate"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-left:16px;padding-right:16px;padding-top:12px;padding-bottom:12px" class="mceTextBlockContainer"><div data-block-id="130" class="mceText" id="dataBlockId-130" style="width:100%"><p class="mcePastedContent last-child" style="line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; mso-line-height-alt: 150%;"><span style="color:#ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 14px"><span style="font-family: 'Lora', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif">Pianist</span></span></span><strong><span style="color:#ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 14px"><span style="font-family: 'Lora', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif"> Danny Driver</span></span></span></strong><span style="color:#ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 14px"><span style="font-family: 'Lora', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif"> and harpsichordist </span></span></span><strong><span style="color:#ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 14px"><span style="font-family: 'Lora', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif">Mahan Esfahani </span></span></span></strong><span style="color:#ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 14px"><span style="font-family: 'Lora', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif">led the petition, drawing signatures from world-famous musicians including </span></span></span><span style="color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 14px"><span style="font-family: 'Lora', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif">the conductors Simon Rattle and Semyon Bychkov, the pianist Martha Argerich and the violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter. </span></span></span></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px" valign="top" class="mceGutterContainer" id="gutterContainerId-135"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:separate" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0" valign="top"><table width="100%" style="border-width:5px;border-style:outset;border-color:#802880;background-color:#ebebeb;border-radius:15px;border-collapse:separate"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-left:16px;padding-right:16px;padding-top:12px;padding-bottom:12px" class="mceTextBlockContainer"><div data-block-id="135" class="mceText" id="dataBlockId-135" style="width:100%"><p><em><strong><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 14px"><span style="font-family: 'Lora', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif">“It has everything to do with security. We were forced to crack the dilemma of security on the one hand and freedom on the other.”</span></span></span></strong></em></p><p class="last-child"><strong><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 14px"><span style="font-family: 'Lora', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif">Simon Reinink</span></span></span></strong><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 14px"><span style="font-family: 'Lora', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif">, general manager of the Concertgebouw</span></span></span></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px" valign="top" class="mceGutterContainer" id="gutterContainerId-140"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:separate" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0" valign="top"><table width="100%" style="border-width:5px;border-style:outset;border-color:#802880;background-color:#802880;border-radius:15px;border-collapse:separate"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-left:16px;padding-right:16px;padding-top:12px;padding-bottom:27px" class="mceTextBlockContainer"><div data-block-id="140" class="mceText" id="dataBlockId-140" style="width:100%"><p class="mcePastedContent" style="margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 4px;"><span style="color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 14px"><span style="font-family: 'Lora', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif">Following backlash, the concert hall agreed to let the </span></span></span><strong><span style="color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 14px"><span style="font-family: 'Lora', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif">Jerusalem Quartet </span></span></span></strong><span style="color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 14px"><span style="font-family: 'Lora', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif">perform - only two days after the initial cancellation. The statement put out by the concert hall claimed that </span></span></span><strong><span style="color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 14px"><span style="font-family: 'Lora', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif">tightened safety measures, adjusted visitor flows and a new start time</span></span></span></strong><span style="color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 14px"><span style="font-family: 'Lora', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif"> made this possible. </span></span></span></p><p class="mcePastedContent last-child" style="margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 4px;"><br /></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0" valign="top"><table width="100%" style="border:0;border-radius:0;border-collapse:separate"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-left:18px;padding-right:18px;padding-top:9px;padding-bottom:9px" class="mceTextBlockContainer"><div data-block-id="143" class="mceText" id="dataBlockId-143" style="width:100%"><p class="mcePastedContent" style="line-height: 1.5; 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