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Music festival in Belgium cancels concert over Israeli conductor

Lahav Shani, the incoming chief conductor of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, on stage during a reception in Munich, Germany, on July 13, 2024 [Hannes Magerstaedt/Getty Images]

A music festival in Belgium has cancelled a planned concert by a celebrated German orchestra over concerns about its Israeli conductor’s stance on the war in Gaza.

The Flanders Festival Ghent said on Wednesday that it had cancelled the Munich Philharmonic’s scheduled performance on September 18 due to a lack of “clarity” about the views of its incoming conductor Lahav Shani.

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