Work of the Week - Enjott Schneider: Salaam

Enjott Schneider
Salaam
Symphony of Peace for four soloists (S/A/T/Bar), mixed chorus and orchestra (2011)
After texts by Jalaladdin Rumi, Nâzım Hikmet, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Fürst Pückler-Muskau as well as excerpts from the Qu'ran and Bible (Ger.)
Commissioned by the City of Augsburg
35’

I Alif – Der Klang des "Anfangs" - II Allegro maestoso: Lob der Schöpfung - III Adagio: Von der Liebe - IV Finale: Frei wie ein Baum – brüderlich wie der Wald

• 10 July 2011 · Augsburg (D)
Town Hall Square
2011 FIFA Women's World Cup cultural programme final in Augsburg
Opera Chorus of the Theater Augsburg; Philharmonic Choir Augsburg; Choirs of the St. Stephan Gymnasium, the Sacred Heart Church and the School of Music Augsburg, the Kosakenchor Kraj e.V.; the Young Vocal Ensemble Swabonia; Turkish Choir “Sultan-i-Yegah“; Choir of the Turkish Kültürverein; Korean Choir Augsburg
Philharmonic Orchestra Augsburg
Conductor Dirk Kaftan

The 35-minute Frieden-Sinfonie in four movements provides a meeting place for concepts, prayers and philosophies from Western-Christian and Eastern-Islamic cultural circles, demonstrating that despite all divisive preconceptions, the common denominator is the desire for peace and thanksgiving for all creation and the one shared creator. Christian and Islamic prayer structures and invocations are interspersed with poetry by Mevlana Dschalaladdin Rumi, Nâzım Hikmet, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Fürst Pückler-Muskau in a sweeping symphonic structure (with identical musical forces to Beethoven’s 9th Symphony which will also be performed). - Enjott Schneider

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