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KharÄ«f âArabÄ« (Arab Autumn) | خرÙ٠عØ
"Following the news bulletin introduction, the death toll of the day and its injuries, and the chest burdened by war propaganda, new weapons, and destroyers, the sound falls like in the autumn. It screams sometimes and chokes at other times. Its scream remains unheard yet abused, while its suffocation spreads as a victim that isn’t rescued but bought. The sound is hesitant, if it speaks of violence it is described as inhuman and if it speaks of death it is accused of being biased…
It is a noise between the melodies, the merging of homogeneous sounds, and the collision of contradictions. But it is a phase… would it bode?"
Text by Areej Abou Harb
Kharīf ‘Arabī (Arab Autumn) was presented in February 2017 at LAU with Ray Furuta (Flute) and Amr Selim (French Horn)
Video by Samer Beyhum
Elegy for Horn Solo and Wind Ensemble by Peter Winkler (b.1943)
“The rich harmonies of this character piece were inspired by the music of the great jazz arranger, Gil Evans. The music begins with a dialogue between mysterious, slow-moving chords and hesitant, fragmentary utterances by the solo horn. The dialogue resolves into a slow, mournful elegy, begun by the wind ensemble and continued by the horn. The elegy in turn gives way to a gently nostalgic song, heard over a gentle Latin rhythm. As the song dies away, the ensemble gathers itself for a short, exuberant dash to the finish”.
"Celestial Objects II" (Pintscher) Contemporary Chamber Players
Poulenc- Sextet for Piano and Woodwind Quintet
Laurie Baufsky, flute
Kendra Hawley, oboe
Chester Howard, clarinet
Rachel Koeth, bassoon
Seba Ali, piano
Conspiro! performs Villa-Lobos "Quintette in forma de chôros"
Kendra Hawley, oboe
Chester Howard, clarinet
Rachel Koeth, bassoon
Hindemith Horn Concerto
J. Scott: Passion for Bach and Coltrane, Psalm
