The Wretched Refuse - Michael Ibrahim - Performed by the National Arab Orchestra & UMS Choral Union

National Arab Orchestra
Featuring: Abeer Nehme
Directed by: Michael Ibrahim
March 19, 2022
Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, MI
In partnership with University Musical Society

The Wretched Refuse
Composer: Michael Ibrahim
Conductor: Scott Hanoian
Narrator: Zeina Fawaz

Meet the Orchestra: Violin (Kamanjah): Imad Al Taha, Bengisu Gokce, Megan Gould, Jumanah Hassan, Insia Malik, Daniel Moltke, Mohammad Tahboub, Christopher Witulski, Sachiyo Yoshimoto. Viola: Marandi Hostetter, Roberto Riggio, Andrea Vercoe. Cello: Mohannad Al Zahabi, George Crotty, Khaled Khalifa. Bass: Jonathan Hammonds. Nay (Arab Reed Flute)/Director: Michael Ibrahim. Qanun (Arab Harp): Firas Zreik. Oud: Nashwan Fadel. Electric Guitar: Edward Gideon. Piano: Scott Van Ornum. Harp: Celia van den Bogert. Percussion (Iqa'): Edy Fadel, Gilbert Mansour, Dan Piccolo Dr. Gursharan Singh Sandhu, Zafir Tawil.

UMS Choral Union

Soprano: Katie Alltop, Elizabeth Baldner, Debra Joy Brabenec, Maggie Burk, Ann Burke, Anne Busch, Jenny Calahan. Carol Callan, Susan F. Campbell, Mary Jane Chase, Cheryl D. Clarkson, Barbara Clayton, Corynn Coscia, Carrie Deierlein, Madeline Dickens, Briana Dusling, Chikodi Etike Marjorie Fera, Keiko Goto, Meredith Hanoian, Shelly Hawkins, Sarah Herwick, Jasmine Jaggers, Elle Jorling, Amy Knight, Kallan Larsen, Tamina Lock, Kathleen E. Marinan, Stephanie Miller-Allen, Armaity Minwalla, Margaret Dearden Petersen, Sara J. Peth, Lily Robinson, Renee Roederer, Rachael L.Rose, Mary Schieve, Virginia Thorne-Herrmann, Margie Warrick, Maureen White-Goeman, Mary Wigton, Lauren E. Wilson.

Alto: Paula Allison-England, Carol Barnhart, Margy Boshoven, Lauren Boyles-Brewitt, Lora Perry Campredon, Jean Cares, Ashley Carman, Cheong-Hee Chang, Melissa Doyle, Jane Forman, Karyn L. Goff, Judi Lempert Green, Johanna Grum, Kat Hagedorn, Sook Han, Carol Kraemer Hohnke, Katherine Klykylo, Johanna Liao, Cynthia Lunan, Beth McNally,
Marilyn Meeker, Carol Milstein, Richa Mukerjee, Kathryn Murphy, Kathleen Operhall, Judith Pennywell, Alexa Piotrowski, Rachel Piper, Ruth Senter, Cindy Shindledecker, Susan Sinta, Hanna Song, Katherine Spindler, Ruth A. Theobald, Cheryl Utiger, Alice VanWambeke, Mary Beth Westin, Karen Woollams.

Tenor: Stephen Amori, Michael Ansara Jr., Gary Banks, Wade Baughman, Steven Fudge , Carl Gies, Arthur Gulick, Peter C. Henninger-Osgood, Benjamin Johnson, Marius Jooste, Corwin Kerr, Bob Klaffke, Rich Marsh, Michael McCarren, Ben Rorem, Thomas Shaw, Ray Shuster, Robert J. Stevenson, Peter Toogood, Trevor Young.

Bass: Sam Baetzel , Joel Beam, William Boggs, Charles A. Burch, Kyle Cozad, Sean Dey, John Dryden, Robert Edgar, Jeffrey Ellison, Daniel Enos, Allen Finkel, Robert R. Florka, John Heilig, Jorge I iguez-Lluhi, Sunho Lee, Rick J. Litow, Roderick J. Little, Aidan Meador-Woodruff, Thomas Postema, Thomas Sommerfeld, Jeff Spindler, David Townsend, James Watz.

Engineered and recorded by Dave Schall, filmed by Cory Robinson and Robyn Kimmey; post-production by Dave Schall