About this concert
Aghani bel Arabi, “songs in Arabic”, took the choir’s new Egyptian repertoire to Alexandria: songs by Sayed Darwish and other Egyptian composers, arranged for choir by Nayer Nagui.
About the music
Sayed Darwish (1892–1923)
- Born in Alexandria in 1892, he died there in 1923, aged 31, and is called the father of Egyptian popular music.
- In barely a decade he wrote some 260 songs and 26 operettas.
- He set “Biladi, Biladi, Biladi”, now Egypt’s national anthem; his songs include “Salma Ya Salama”, “Ahu Da Illi Sar” and “El Helwa Di”.
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