Track Listings (8) - Disc #1| All Artists: Rahim Alhaj Title: Letters from Iraq: Oud and String Quintet Members Wishing: 1 Total Copies: 0 Label: Smithsonian/Folkways Release Date: 4/7/2017 Genre: Classical Style: Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 093074057728 |
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Letters from Iraq expresses the love and pain of lives lived by the people of war-torn Iraq. Actual mailed letters and their stories are transposed into eight gripping programmatic compositions by Iraqi-American composer a... more » |
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Letters from Iraq expresses the love and pain of lives lived by the people of war-torn Iraq. Actual mailed letters and their stories are transposed into eight gripping programmatic compositions by Iraqi-American composer and oud player, Rahim AlHaj with string quintet (2 violins, viola, cello, contrabass) and percussion. He says, ?Music can make us laugh, make us cry, make us march into war. I want to make music to make us realize peace.? These recordings are of deep emotion and great beauty, melding mastery of Iraqi and Western classical genres alike to form something entirely new. 70 minutes, 40-page booklet with bilingual notes in English and Arabic.
