Fairouz is a talented, eclectic — often arrestingly so — and quite busy composer. His work is at once classical, current and global, a mingling of rhythms and tones, as attuned to Brahms and other dead white men as they are to the inflections of Middle Eastern melodies. The composer, a shrewd reader of politics, is working on an uncommissioned opera on the life and assassination of former Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto. I dont borrow, I steal, said Fairouz, who has the confidence, and at times the brashness, born of intuitive passion and early success. You step out of a cab and you listen to the Punjabi beats coming from a radio and then you hear Greek music while passing a deli.... How can you separate yourself from what you hear?
Posted on: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 19:20:19 +0000
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