<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e7da7570-c19c-401e-85f6-655d6962c865/0B34B09A-9E2E-46AB-9D4C-30702A2502A3/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.musicalcriticism.com/concerts/qeh-sinfonietta-alfarabi-1208.shtml" href="http://www.musicalcriticism.com/concerts/qeh-sinfonietta-alfarabi-1208.shtml" style="font-size: 11px;">www.musicalcriticism.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.musicalcriticism.com/concerts/qeh-sinfonietta-alfarabi-1208.shtml"><DIV id="details"> <H1> <I>Al Farabi Concerto</I> </H1> <H2>London Sinfonietta, Rozario, Haram; Diego Masson </H2> <P> Queen Elizabeth Hall, 12 December 2008 <IMG height="17" width="88" alt="4 stars" src="http://www.musicalcriticism.com/concerts/4star.jpg" /></p> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.musicalcriticism.com/concerts/qeh-sinfonietta-alfarabi-1208.shtml"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.musicalcriticism.com/img/8BF435D1-06DE-4EA6-9370-85280541875B" alt="Patricia Rozario" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.musicalcriticism.com/concerts/qeh-sinfonietta-alfarabi-1208.shtml"><P><I>Al Farabi Concerto </I>is a showcase series of concerts in which new pieces written by Arabic composers who work predominantly in the Western classical tradition, are performed alongside recent compositions from their Western peers. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.musicalcriticism.com/concerts/qeh-sinfonietta-alfarabi-1208.shtml">Ahmed Essyad's <I>Voix interdites</I> (Forbidden Voices), a cycle (of three songs and instrumental interludes, of which we only heard the songs) about pain and sadness based on Sufi poetry from the tenth century, makes explicit the syncretic impulse that drives the composer. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.musicalcriticism.com/concerts/qeh-sinfonietta-alfarabi-1208.shtml">a plucked cello and bass accompaniment that is unmistakably redolent of an oud, whilst the ardent and passionate singing of <B>Patricia Rozario</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.musicalcriticism.com/concerts/qeh-sinfonietta-alfarabi-1208.shtml">continuously brought to mind the devotional passion of Sufi musicianship, particularly in the anguished third song. 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