Article about community-based chorale Amadeus Choir. Also mentions recent concert featuring Hussein Janmohamed’s new work anchored in Muslim chant.
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[Lydia] Adams currently has a call out to high school students in the GTA to write a composition on a First Nations theme. A recent concert with the Elmer Iseler Singers featured a new work anchored in Muslim chant, by Vancouver composer Hussein Janmohamed.
The biggest challenge in being true to a culture, says Adams, is finding the right people to write the music.
“You need people who are going to be authentic for different traditions,” she explains. “It’s going to take a while, because some Toronto cultures have no history of choral music. At our last event, we had 30 to 40 people who had never been to a choral concert before, and were blown away by the new piece (by Janmohamed).”
Read at : http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/music/article
Hussein’s work can be found here: http://www.myspace.com/husseinjanmohamed
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