About this concert
In June 2013 artists held a sit-in outside the Ministry of Culture in Zamalek in defence of Egypt’s cultural life. The choir joined them on a street stage and performed Sayed Darwish, the composer whose songs have been part of every moment of national feeling in Egypt for a century.
Programme
- Work
- Aghani bel Arabi: Sayed Darwish
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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