KINAN AZMEH - PRAYER FOR SOLO CLARINET

Syrian clarinetist/composer Kinan Azmeh's Prayer for Solo Clarinet.

Program note by the Composer:
I started working on this piece in the summer of 2003 and only completed it in October of that same year just a few days after the passing of the incredibly articulate, outspoken, and courageous Edward Said.

This work is an hommage to a humanist's cry for justice in Palestine and is inspired by the incredible legacy he left behind. - Kinan Azmeh

Edward Said was not only an extremely prominent Palestinian professor, writer, and public intellectual but also a pianist who, along with Daniel Barenboim in 1999 co-founded the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra composed of young Israeli, Palestinian, and Arab musicians. They also established The Barenboim–Said Foundation in Seville, to develop education-through-music projects.

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