About this concert
Concerts in Morocco with Coro de Tres Culturas (“choir of three cultures”), conducted by the French conductor Michel Piquemal. In Rabat, Marrakech and Essaouira the choir performed choral works by Sayed Darwish and Gamal Abdel Reheim arranged by Nayer Nagui, together with his own compositions.
Programme
- Work
- Sayed Darwish and Gamal Abdel Rahim choral works, arr. Nayer Nagui; Nagui's own works
About the music
Sayed Darwish (1892–1923)
- Born in Alexandria in 1892, he died there in 1923, aged 31, and is called the father of Egyptian popular music.
- In barely a decade he wrote some 260 songs and 26 operettas.
- He set “Biladi, Biladi, Biladi”, now Egypt’s national anthem; his songs include “Salma Ya Salama”, “Ahu Da Illi Sar” and “El Helwa Di”.
Source (opens in a new tab) Gamal Abdel-Rahim (1924–1988)
- Studied composition in Germany with Harald Genzmer (1952–57).
- Founded the composition department of the Cairo Conservatory in 1971, the first in the Arab world.
- His music fuses traditional Egyptian elements with contemporary European writing.
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