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2023-06-19 03:30:00
by Karl NehringConcerto for Violin and Orchestra; Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra. Rachel Barton Pine, violin; Anthony McGill, clarinet; Marin Alsop, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Cedille CDR 90000 220 Once again I have had the delightful experience of discovering the music of a composer heretofore unknown to me and finding it to be a most pleasant surprise. What’s more, I now have the opportunity to pass the word along – so here we go. Malek Jandali (b. 1972) is a Syrian-American pianist and composer who works to integrate Middle Eastern musical idioms into Western classical musical forms, as evidenced by these two large-scale concertos. At the end of his acknowledgements notes for the album, Jandali writes, “This album is an attempt to present the Arabic musical elements of my homeland Syria and the Middle East. I have always felt that music eloquently expresses the inherent connection between the past and the […]
2021-08-01 13:44:00
Music is not a matter of notes, it's a matter of sounds
In this age of supposed diversity the Egyptian composer, ethnomusicologist and electronic music pioneer Halim El-Dabh is overlooked. While still a student in the 1940s Halim El-Dabh experimented with composing using wire recorders. In 1944 he created one of the earliest known examples of electronic musique concrète. The Expression of Zaar manipulated field recordings of a traditional zaar exorcism ceremony, and predated Pierre Schaeffer's work by four years. In 1950 Halim El-Dabh received a Fulbright Scholarship and moved to the United States, becoming a US citizen in 1961. His composition teachers included Ernst Krenek, Aaron Copland and Luigi Dallapiccola. In New York his circle included Henry Cowell, John Cage, and Peggy Glanville-Hicks, and he composed four ballet scores for Martha Graham and was an influential figure in the early days of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. Halim El-Dabh came from a Coptic-Christian family with ancestral roots in Upper Egypt close to […]
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