Heliopolis University for Sustainable Development, Cairo
With
Nayer Nagui
In collaboration with
Heliopolis University for Sustainable Development (SEKEM)
About this concert
Space of Culture is the arts programme of Heliopolis University for Sustainable Development, founded by SEKEM. The choir brought together Sayed Darwish songs and classical works in a concert about the meeting of cultures.
Programme
Work
Sayed Darwish songs
Work
classical 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”.
