There is perhaps no parallel in our modern times to the artistic bond between Marcel Khalife and Mahmoud Darwish. It is rare that a celebrated musician is the twin manifestation of a great contemporary poet. Khalifes deep reading of Darwishs poetry lasted over the four decades of the poets life. If an authors dream is to have one true reader, Darwish found a special one in Marcel. Marcel heard the modern Arabic poem as sung speech in a manner that illuminated the contemporary Arabic songs ability to embrace rhythm and phrase within new horizons. His music and song are bread for speech, as Darwish called them, that evaporate the mirage which often exists between modern poem and song, in an age where the poem is wary of public consumption. Darwish and Marcel shared an exalted belief that, while it can, art does not dance alone. Fady Joudah
Posted on: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 16:50:25 +0000
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