Intercultural Journeys presents The Apple Hill String Quartet

In the third installment in the Songs for Peace concert season, we welcome The Apple Hill String Quartet with Syrian-born clarinetist Kinan Azmeh and Israeli-born pianist Sally Pinkas. This special program entitled "Music Bridging Contemporary Cultural Divides,� is part of a project from the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music that aims to bring together musicians from Arab (both Muslim and Christian) cultures with Israeli/Jewish and American cultures. Through creative collaboration, the Apple Hill String Quartet uses music as a means to cross cultural, religious, and political divides to seek truth, humanity, and beauty. This concert features the Philadelphia premiere of Traces by Emmy-nominated composer Kareem Roustom, a work developed exclusively for string quartet, clarinet, and piano. Traces evokes the poetic imagery of an abandoned Bedouin camp, a theme often examined in classical pre-Islamic Arab poetry. As is typical of these poems, the poet returns to the camp to find it abandoned; all that remains are memories and the traces of lives once lived. This powerful piece explores the themes of love, loss, memory, life, death, and longing for the past.

This performance celebrates Interfaith Harmony Week (February 3-9), a United Nations initiative.

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