2009 Jeux de la Francophonie players. Total Games medal count The 2009 Jeux de la Francophonie games closing ceremony took place in BIEL, downtown Beirut, on 7 September. The festivities were opened with a classical concert led by conductor Harout Fazlian, followed by a folkloric African music concert specially composed for the occasion. Eliya Francis and Cynthia Samaha interpreted Mozart's opera Bastien und Bastienne, and the following set by Canzone Napoletana was also interpreted by Francis. A large Zorba ring preceded the concert of the Lebanese pop artist Ragheb Alama accompanied by belly dancers. The festivities ended with an electronic music event by the Franco
Moses und Aron Moses und Aron Moses und Aron (English: "Moses and Aaron") is a three-act opera by Arnold Schoenberg with the third act unfinished. The German libretto is by the composer after the Book of Exodus. Hungarian composer Zoltán Kocsis completed the last act, with Schoenberg's heirs' permission, in 2010, but "Moses und Aron" was almost always performed as Schoenberg left it in 1932, with only two of the planned three acts completed. "Moses und Aron" has its roots in Schoenberg's earlier agitprop play, "Der biblische Weg" ("The Biblical Way", 1926–27), a response in dramatic form to the growing anti-Jewish movements in