Event overview
‘Composing a rose garden of light for the Afghanistan National Institute of Music’
As part of the Graduate Festival, the Afghan Music Unit presents Dr Sadie Harrison.
Sadie’s lecture will be on the process of writing music for the students of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, reflecting on the ways in which it has been enriched and transformed in the context of contemporary Afghan musical culture - the ‘Afghan way’!
In August 2015, in Kabul, Harrison’s Gulistan-e Nur Interludes were recorded by Ensemble Zohar (Girl’s Ensemble led by Cuatro Puntos members Kevin and Holly Bishop and the tutors of ANIM, particularly Camilo Jauregui, Allegra Boggess and Jennifer Moberg).
She will also be sharing the extraordinary story of ANIM and the girls and staff who rehearsed and performed the pieces during one of Kabul’s most violent periods in recent months with rehearsals disrupted daily by suicide bomb attacks and security alerts.
Following the extraordinary invitation to write a new work for the Afghanistan Youth Orchestra (including rubabs, tanbur, ghichaks, dilruba, sitars, sarods tabla and dhols alongside traditional symphony orchestra instruments) she will also be considering the practical and musical challenges of writing for such an ensemble.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 13 May 2016 | 3:30pm - 4:30pm |
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