Table of Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgements xi
Foreword Sir Peter Maxwell Davies xiii
Introduction xvii
1 Iraqi teen seeks maestro 1
2 The $50,000 tweet 12
3 Kick off in Suleymaniyah 24
4 Soothing tensions 36
5 And the walls came tumbling down 48
6 In darkness let me dwell 59
7 The wounded orchestra 75
8 Turning the key to Germany 87
9 That's what friends are for 100
10 Mission Improbable 113
11 The sword of Damocles 125
12 The Iraqi diplomats 138
13 The British apotheosis 156
14 On the fringes of Edinburgh 169
15 Reconciling Scotland 183
16 Breath and death 197
17 Paradoxes 205
18 In a drought 219
19 The pinnacle of endeavour 230
20 Crossroads at Aix 240
21 Mission to Mars 249
22 The Elgin solution 257
23 Reconciling Iraq 274
24 Zeal 281
25 Who are the Iraqis? 296
Index 312