Call (2017)
tenor, flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, cello
Isha is a musical tribute to the victims of the terrorist attack that occurred on January 29, 2017 at the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec. Six members of the congregation were gunned down just after evening prayers began. Their names are the text of the work, set loosely in the style of a call to prayer:
Abdelkrim Hassane
Aboubaker Thabti
Khaled Belkacemi
Mamadou Tanou Barry
Ibrahima Barry
Azzedine Soufiane
The musical treatment of a murder victim’s name was inspired by Luciano Berio’s work O King, written after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in 1968.
Isha is a musical tribute to the victims of the terrorist attack that occurred on January 29, 2017 at the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec. Six members of the congregation were gunned down just after evening prayers began. Their names are the text of the work, set loosely in the style of a call to prayer:
Abdelkrim Hassane
Aboubaker Thabti
Khaled Belkacemi
Mamadou Tanou Barry
Ibrahima Barry
Azzedine Soufiane
The musical treatment of a murder victim’s name was inspired by Luciano Berio’s work O King, written after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in 1968.
