About this concert
Kuwait’s Al-Qurain Cultural Festival is organised every winter by the National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters. At its 25th edition the choir represented Egypt with Aghani bel Arabi in Nayer Nagui’s arrangements of Sayed Darwish, at the Abdulhussain Abdulredha Theatre in Salmiya.
Programme
- Work
- Aghani bel Arabi: Sayed Darwish arrangements
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”.
Source (opens in a new tab) Photographs
Photos: the choir's archive (Al-Qurain Cultural Festival)
