{"id":20012,"date":"2024-12-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/20012\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T12:15:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T12:15:48","slug":"his-majesty-visits-music-centre-in-belgium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/20012\/","title":{"rendered":"His Majesty visits music centre in Belgium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His Majesty Sultan Haitham bin Tarik, accompanied by King Philippe, King of the Belgians and his spouse Queen Mathilde, Queen of the Belgians, visited the <a href=\"https:\/\/musicchapel.org\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel<\/a> in the Wallonia region, as part of his state visit to Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>The Chapel is a prestigious, international centre for the artistic education of young musicians.<\/p>\n<p>On the arrival of the motorcade of His Majesty and the King, the visitors \u00a0were received by the Governor of the Walloon Region and the Mayor of Namur city.<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=1000974914  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-66681 size-fusion-600 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/mlzlkxvcvliz.i.optimole.com\/cb:ghTT.1f99\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/g:sm\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/wp-content\/uploads\/His-Majesty-Visits-Music-Centre2-600x747-1.jpeg\" alt=\"His Majesty visits Elisabeth Music Chapel\" width=\"600\" height=\"747\" \/><\/p>\n<p>His Majesty was briefed on the Music Chapel and its role in disseminating artistic culture. His Majesty then listened to a number of musical pieces being played.<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=833015302  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-66683 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mlzlkxvcvliz.i.optimole.com\/cb:ghTT.1f99\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/g:sm\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/wp-content\/uploads\/His-Majesty-Visits-Music-Centre3.jpeg\" alt=\"His Majesty visits Queen Elisabeth Music Centre\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After that, a private luncheon was held at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in honour of His Majesty, in the presence of the King and Queen of the Belgians.<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=2011451338  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/mlzlkxvcvliz.i.optimole.com\/cb:ghTT.1f99\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/g:sm\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/wp-content\/uploads\/His-Majesty-Visits-Music-Centre4-800x533-1.jpeg\"  decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-66685 size-fusion-800\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20100%%20100%%22%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"His Majesty visits Queen Elizabeth Music Centre\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After lunch, His Majesty presented the centre with a gift of a musical instrument.<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=1875041657  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/mlzlkxvcvliz.i.optimole.com\/cb:ghTT.1f99\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/g:sm\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/wp-content\/uploads\/His-Majesty-Visits-Music-Centre5-800x615-1.jpeg\"  decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-66687 size-fusion-800 aligncenter\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20100%%20100%%22%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"His Majesty the Sultan presenst a musical instrument as a gift to the centre. \" width=\"800\" height=\"615\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is an unofficial English version of an Arabic report. To view the official Arabic text,\u00a0click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/c5ed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His Majesty toured the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel an international centre for the education of young musicians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,111],"tags":[216,256],"class_list":["post-20012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-posts-and-videos","category-news","tag-belgium-en","tag-his-majesty-sultan-haitham-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20018,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20012\/revisions\/20018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}