Tag: zajal

• 17 June، 2024

  ZEJEL [زَجَلْ] FOR VIOLIN AND CELLO – WITH RED CEDAR CHAMBER ENSEMBLE

  ZEJEL [زَجَلْ] For Violin & CelloCommissioned by Red Cedar Chamber Music ensemblePremiered on April 28, 2024United Congregational Church, Iowa CityMiera Kim, ViolinCarey Bostian, CelloPeter Nothnagle, Sound Engineer Inspired by the Lebanese Zèjèl (زَجَل) which is a semi-improvised, semi-sung, or declaimed form of poetry in the colloquial Lebanese Arabic dialect. Zèjèl has close ties in prosody,…