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<span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(76,76,76)"><strong>Beyond Marcel: Oumeima El Khalil</strong></span><br><div style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(76,76,76)"><strong><img style="text-align:right" src="http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs061/1101864069994/img/208.jpg" name="136e0c1870c4222d_ACCOUNT.IMAGE.208" width="125" vspace="5" border="0" alt="Oumeima El Khalil" align="right" height="127" hspace="5"></strong></span><br>
</div><div><span style="color:rgb(76,76,76)"> Don't miss your chance to see <strong><a style="color:rgb(0,204,204);text-decoration:none" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=0013mQRE74KSKhs_biMgKiMAF01z_Ree5H11ZT_JCwG5eXrqKXhbKL9ifq6ArSB25lCwHZrYWIKK-sTZCEDJw_zAERCrNZg20jMVLCPqMk2RKktURieCRjemw==" shape="rect" target="_blank">Marcel Khalife</a></strong> and the <strong><a style="color:rgb(0,204,204);text-decoration:none" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=0013mQRE74KSKhGLwEH1Oyljygp6tALC3RRhCZJjF6rAX7QqBXdlK4GOwU9uUBpAPg7aw_M_Pdk-zjmAJvHT69W9ncWKgKsgVCpVarqkMMueaNWw_gKjY4WfFnLm6BgOrzqLFKzJxXoC3w=" shape="rect" target="_blank">Al Mayadine Ensemble.</a></strong> The ensemble includes chanteuse <strong><a style="color:rgb(0,204,204);text-decoration:none" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=0013mQRE74KSKhFVpwTaqjjdV9u3XX8n6rjOqUJsTsTOPhuPn3Ucpf7ve2hFAhIAWsmrayy69-OOubYDdd4-KQcHKGrV0wv2OJD8ZVRO2bj8-MALjtstSUOhQ==" shape="rect" target="_blank">Oumeima El Khalil</a>,</strong> pianist <strong><a style="color:rgb(0,204,204);text-decoration:none" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=0013mQRE74KSKjut9uscpq4sva7Dp8TKBxQmSYtu9L8x8-GEDvRHXOJ1tbtQ97vnkaiZKiH5sz_zLazpVuEQ8BFF6W1hiSJc9sXpAgcv8ON-FaWg9S7_GMOBA==" shape="rect" target="_blank">Rami Khalife,</a></strong> and <strong><a style="color:rgb(0,204,204);font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=0013mQRE74KSKiLyVUCJcF9z5x5QCP0adO5W4Ex0SqLJUTd5OYrRpAca966rsknFJA0bgfCSLbDKdF5jhEgYaGtbek0UFgWKTGY_dzcYKBUcszqV2MmFDw6Xg==" shape="rect" target="_blank">Bachar Khalife</a></strong> on percussion. All are doing an homage to Marcel Khalife's visionary collaborator, the late Palestinian poet </span><strong><a style="color:rgb(0,204,204);text-decoration:none" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=0013mQRE74KSKilvBthDTNl-3RkrApdayZYOHsuxL8w6qPHb8BtWlpLbHuytQxVuZUCsdfBkZ3p04ot7tJLf41Nt5_fD4ljMriPGzdXikS1fYJXpHFA47IoD8LlLZeOWh3LjJ1COcVBaZf4y7IjY8lleuJud3ytz955" shape="rect" target="_blank">Mahmoud Darwish. </a></strong><br>
</div> <br><div style="margin-left:60px"><span style="color:rgb(76,76,76)"><strong>Venue:</strong> Berklee Performance Center</span><br></div><div style="margin-left:60px"><span style="color:rgb(76,76,76)"><strong>Date: </strong> Saturday, May 5, 2010, 8 pm</span><br>
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</div> <div><span style="color:rgb(76,76,76)"><strong>Fall of the Moon: An Homage to the Poet Mahmoud Darwish <br>& a Salute to the Arab Spring </strong></span><br><br></div><div>Khalifé's newest suite of compositions, <em>Fall of the Moon,</em> is an introspective and highly emotional musical interpretation of one of Darwish's most powerful collections of prose poems, the posthumously published <strong><a style="color:rgb(0,204,204);font-style:italic;text-decoration:none" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=0013mQRE74KSKinWbKUXWwlhSMg3EIKtOKbuNVDSKii9X0ob6b0wasEaeOpjPWPzXF5Ay4kgPn5IGF_xtlnNyiOitfgUWHcEbENeuFEazvzUGUB3vjTRGSxFATvvOy4YDrI9mm5FAWcE-CL0GYHoRZI923mYFPsj9GoKqvtbxe2Fc_cxdo3XWrMgw==" shape="rect" target="_blank">In the Presence of Absence.</a></strong><br>
</div><em> </em><br><div><span style="color:rgb(76,76,76)">Despite being written urgently in the throes of death, <em>In the Presence of Absence</em> is a work erotically charged with an indulgence for life, enthralled with communing with the fleeting presence of the other, and unrelenting in the violence of its love and disdain for one's own absence. </span><br>
</div><br><div><span style="color:rgb(76,76,76)">The collection is the work of a poet who was writing his own eulogy, a man who knew that death was near. The poems embody an eerie finality, meditating on loss and exile, yet are also exuberant with an emergent hope that wants to transcend the fading self into another voice - the story of the long struggle and suffering of the valiant people both Marcel Khalifé and Mahmoud Darwish have chosen to represent.</span><br>
</div><div><span style="color:rgb(76,76,76)"> </span><br></div><div style="margin-left:60px"><span style="color:rgb(76,76,76)">Listen to an</span> <a style="color:rgb(0,204,204);font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none" shape="rect" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=0013mQRE74KSKgGl8lbTWVqv51-z_l6UC-qOGWZLOgKCzOtUqiqu72NOg0-RvWjFTgEiK2PsmgCXslEH3dHK02Odwi1VVsc0VUlmO13PySItP4m0apnO8zXDvEoMIaelHip_52-BQ17tBU8lG66ymunjw==" target="_blank">excerpt</a> of<br>
</div><div style="margin-left:60px"><em><strong>Fall of the Moon</strong></em><br></div><div style="margin-left:60px">Vocals by Oumeima El Khalil<br></div><div style="margin-left:60px"><img height="200" vspace="5" border="0" name="136e0c1870c4222d_ACCOUNT.IMAGE.207" hspace="5" width="200" alt="Fall of the Moon album cover" src="http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs061/1101864069994/img/207.jpg"></div>
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