Helm El Nour (Dream of Light): youth arts initiative in Cairo, Assiut and Minya
Date
7 November 2014
Venue
Ewart Memorial Hall, AUC (7 Nov); Qasr El Thaqafa, Assiut (21 Nov); Diwan El Mohafza, Minya (22 Nov), Cairo
With
Nayer Nagui
About this concert
Helm El Nour (Dream of Light) trained talented young people aged 18 to 25 in the arts. The choir performed Sayed Darwish with them in three cities: Cairo, Assiut and Minya, with free admission.
Programme
Work
Sayed Darwish
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”.
