After award-winning French violinist, Didier Lockwood, performed at the Fez Jazz Festival in 2007, he was invited to compose a work for the Sacred Music Festival this year.
Didier LockwoodThe result was
Cordes & Ames (
Strings and Souls) presented as a world premiere at Monday's evening concert at Bab Makina. A somewhat small audience was treated to 10 movements of energetic music encompassing both western classical style with soprano Caroline Casadesus and traditional Moroccan chanting from the Marrakechi singer, Ihsan R'Miki.
Caroline Casadesus and Didier Lockwood
Ihsan R'Miki
The young orchestra members played this exacting piece with verve and great accomplishment. They were conducted by Moroccan musician Rachid Regragui who also did all the arrangements. The work was an interesting counterpoise between the poems of the great Andalusian mystic Ibn Arabi as interpreted by Ihsan R'Miki, and western classical music; a fusion described by Gerard Kurdjian, Artistic Director of the Festival, as a bridge across the Mediterranean.
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Didier Lockwood
Caroline Casadesus and Didier Lockwood
Ihsan R'Miki
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