Mohammed Fairouz: In the Shadow of No Towers
May 2, 2013Categories:
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Mohammed Fairouz discusses his new composition In the Shadow of No Towers and gave us a first look into his beautifully hand written score. Click here to listen to selections from the piece.
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- Introduction – 0:03
- The University of Kansas – 0:10
- Why did you feel that the wind ensemble would be good for this work? – 0:56
- You worked with Art Spiegelman, and came up with this idea; What called out to you from his work and what did you want to represent from that comic? – 02:50
- I heard you comment on it as an elegy for your city; What exactly does that phrase mean to you? – 05:37
- What emotions did you want to pull out of the piece and convey to the audience…? – 06:54
- How was it to work with the students at Kansas and get to see them play your work and hear it for the first time; What was that experience like? – 08:58
- Is the comic going to be displayed at all at the premiere? – 11:20
- When you are writing a work like this, do you have this idea in your head that kinda festers, are you inspired by actually going to a physical location…? – 12:03