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ALLEN, Texas—Music blared and red and green spotlights panned the crowd at the arena here one recent Saturday.

In my little corner of Silver Lake, 7 p.m. commenced a daily cacophonous communal concert of pots and pans banging, trombones and trumpets blaring, dogs and coyotes howling: a grateful group roar.

As the museum's alarms started blaring, staff followed protocol by contacting security forces, the culture ministry said in a statement.

On the eve of the arrival, candles lined the roads and crowds danced in the centre while vuvuzela horns blared across the city.

Thousands of worshippers returned on Friday to the Gaza Strip's few intact and many damaged mosques, where for the first time in months loudspeakers blared the Islamic call to prayer.