Somnium al Salaam - Dream of Peace
All too often we see different cultures clashing, which leads to a lot of misery and sadness. Yet you don’t want to stop hoping that one day we can all live together peacefully. A dream or Fata Morgana?
In this composition you can hear that different cultures can play their music at the same time while the music still forms a whole.
I have tried to build a musical bridge between different cultures by combining baroque choral sounds with Latin, Iranian, Spanish, Arabic and Hebrew music. You would expect this to create an incoherent musical knot that doesn't sound like anything. But the opposite is true: a multi-colored whole was created in which everyone can play their own melody. And it all turns out to fit together in a wonderful way that creates a contemporary harmonic music that everyone can understand.
In this composition you can hear that different cultures can play their music at the same time while the music still forms a whole.
I have tried to build a musical bridge between different cultures by combining baroque choral sounds with Latin, Iranian, Spanish, Arabic and Hebrew music. You would expect this to create an incoherent musical knot that doesn't sound like anything. But the opposite is true: a multi-colored whole was created in which everyone can play their own melody. And it all turns out to fit together in a wonderful way that creates a contemporary harmonic music that everyone can understand.