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Miller Theatre,
Columbia University
ICLS wishes to thank the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University, PeerMusic, and NYSCA for their support of these events.
Rachel Calloway, Hwi-Eun Kim, David Kravitz and David Krakauer join the Young New Yorkers’ Chorus and Ensemble 212 for the much anticipated world premiere of Mohammed Fairouz’s Third Symphony on February 16, 2012 at Miller Theatre, Columbia University. Poems and Prayers is a poetic Middle Eastern journey scored for solo vocalists, large mixed chorus and orchestra. The symphony incorporates ancient and modern texts ranging from the Aramaic Kaddish to modern Israeli and Arabic poetry by Mahmoud Darwish, Yehuda Amichai and Fadwa Tuqan, weaving together a narrative of shared loss and dispossession as well as hope and reconciliation..
Ticket prices: $25 for general public, $15 for faculty, and $5 for students (with CUID only, limit 2 tickets per ID) Click here for the Box Office
The performance will be followed by a panel discussion at 2:30pm on February 17, 2012 at 501 Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University, featuring Iraqi poet and scholar Sinan Antoon (NYU), theorist Jacqueline Rose (Queen Mary, University of London), and Michael Steinberg (Director of the Cogut Center for the Humanities and Professor of History and Music at Brown University) in conversation with Mohammed Fairouz on the topic of comparative composition. The panel will be moderated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (University Professor, Columbia University).
Conductor Yoon Jae Lee
Soloists Rachel Calloway Hwi-Eun Kim David Kravitz David Krakauer
About Mohammed Fairouz
Straddling Eastern and Western idioms, Mohammed Fairouz is one of the most frequently performed composers of his generation. His music has been performed at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Boston’s Symphony Hall, the Kennedy Center and internationally. He has received commissions from Musicians for Harmony, Northeastern University, the Imani Winds (Legacy Commission), Alwan for the Arts, and others.
His music has been championed the Borromeo and Lydian String Quartets, the Imani Winds, violinists Rachel Barton Pine and James Buswell, the clarinetist David Krakauer as well as the conductors Gunther Schuller, Fawzi Haimor and Yoon Jae Lee. Among the eminent singers that have promoted his vocal music are Kate Lindsey, D’Anna Fortunato, David Kravitz and Randall Scarlata. Fairouz has been recognized as an “expert in vocal writing” by the New Yorker and as a “post millenial Schubert” by Gramophone Magazine.
