| In turn, he contributed the financial portion of the award to the National Conservatory of Music at Birzeit University in Palestine.He lives in Paris, France.The Ana Yussef, ya Abi case
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4.The beginnings
Marcel Khalife was born in 1950 in Amsheet, a small village on the coast in the North of Beirut where Ernest Renan used to live.His grandfather was a flutist and a fisherman."Then I used to go to church and listen to Christian music, and also to Islamic recitations of the Qur'an.An instrument with strict technical rules, Marcel Khalife expanded the rules and the possibilities of the oud.Until now, I never hesitate to do anything at all in order to show my support for this great cause."In 1972, Marcel Khalife created a musical group in his native village with the goal of reviving its musical heritage and the Arabic chorale.The first performances took place in Lebanon during the Lebanese civil war in 1975."My music is for the service of humanity, and is intended to present a serious and sincere work for those tormented in this destructive war.My music was a sort of balm for those wounds."Al Mayadeen ensemble
His work combines traditional Arabic music with Western elements like the piano.He composes and sings the poetry of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, songs on nationalism and revolution.The band performed in Arab countries, Europe, the United States, Canada, South America, Australia, and Japan.Marcel Khalife has been invited several times to festivals of international fame such as: Baalbeck, Beit Eddine (Lebanon),Antakya(Antakia), Carthage, El Hammamat (Tunisia), Timgad (Algeria), Jarash (Jordan), Arles (France), Krems, Linz (Austria), Bremen (Germany), ReOrient (Sweden), Pavia (Italy), World Music Festival in San Francisco, New York, Cleveland (U.He performed in many prestigious halls as the Palace of Arts in Montreal, Symphony Space and Merkin Concert in New York, Berklee Theatre and New England Conservatory in Boston, Royal Festival Hall, and Queen Elizabeth Hall in London,UNESCO Palace of Beirut, Cairo Opera House (Egypt).Kiev Symphony Orchestra, the Academy of Boulogne Billancourt Orchestra, The San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra of the city of Tunis, and the Absolute Ensemble.Rather, my real interest lies in musical composition.This was present in early compositions like Rita, Aaras (Weddings) and Tusbahouna ala Watan (Ode to Homeland).Each of these was a musical composition and not just music written for songs.He also expressed support for the rights of political activists who went on hunger strike before and during the World Summit on Information Society in Tunis in November 2005.The Ana Yussef, ya Abi case
Three times (1996, 1999 and 2003), he faced criminal prosecution for his song I am Joseph, O Father, written by the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.Khalifa recorded the song in his 1995 album "The Arabic Coffee Pot" that was based on a 1992 poem of the prominent Palestinian poet, Mahmoud Darwish.In 1999, the case was brought to a court by the newly appointed investigating judge, Abdel Rahman Shihab, who reproached Marcel of "insulting religious values by using a verse from the chapter of Joseph from the Qur'an in a song."Marcel faced six months to three years imprisonment for publicly insulting religion (article 474 of the Lebanon's penal code, six months to three years in prison) and blasphemy (article 473 of the penal code, one month to one year in prison).Senior Sunni Muslim clerics in Lebanon ruled that singing verses from the Qur'an was "absolutely banned and not accepted.""There is a limit to freedom of expression.One limit is that it should not infringe on people's religious beliefs."Beirut where 2000 people sang altogether the song in trial.Marcel Khalife even received the support of Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, a Shi'ite theologist."Fundamentalism is in the process of stifling culture and creation in the Arab world, I say it is shameful.Ghada Abu Karrum, the judge, rejected the demand of the prosecutor, and found him innocent of the charge of degrading Islam."We Arabs have no history of our music.It is at a level of artistry that departs from the past, presenting a new challenge to the composer and the musician.Jadal brings forth a unique richness in Arabic music through the search for a new law of aesthetics to replace the old.Films
Marcel Khalife has composed soundtracks for films, documentaries and fictions, produced by Maroun Baghdadi, Oussama Mohammed, Sophi Sayhf Eddin and Sami Zikra.His music is also featured in the documentary Occupied Minds produced by Jamal Dajani and David Michaelis.In 2002, European television networks broadcast a documentary on Marcel Khalife.Pierre Dupouey, produced by Ognon Pictures and Mezzo.The documentary tells the story of the second trial Marcel Khalife faced in 1998 for his song Ana Yussef (I am Joseph).References in English
Marcel Khalife Discusses the New and the Old in Arabic Music in a Leading Literary Supplement: The Rationalization of Arabic Music, Translated and edited by Elie Chalala, Al Jadid magazine, Vol.See Copyrights for details.If you don't have an MP3 player, please click here to download one."Communicating with Music Server...""We're sorry, this request cannot be completed.He studied the oud (the Arabic lute) at the Beirut National conservatory, and, ever since, has been injecting a new life into the oud.Arabic forms andTaqasim, duo for oud and double bass.His challenges, however, are not only musical in character.His lyrical recordings adds up to about 20 albums, the likes Promises of the storm, Ahmad Al Arabi, Weddings, Peace Be With you, Ode To A Homeland, Arabic Coffeepot, The Children and Body(Al Jassad,) to name a few.This language elevates him to the level of an ambassador of his own culture and to the vanguard of Near Eastern music in search of innovators.For many years, my music has enjoyed a special, and especially gratifying, association with the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish.For many years, my music has enjoyed a special, and especially gratifying, association with the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish.Our respective corpora have grown to be reminiscent of each other, so that the name of each of the twain, instantly and without reflection, would evoke the name of the other.They were all, at a personal level, mine.Some may wonder, as they listen to Taqasim, about the meaning of this dedication, for no part can be found in the score for the poetry of Darwish or for my own voice.With this work, I have overcome my timidity, giving way to a newfound daring as I dedicate it to Mahmoud, my friend and brother who had found his own daring long before I did.For more on Taqasim, please read here.Need Help listening to Samples?Need Help listening to Samples?Want this album in your Blog?If the new world order gives me the culture of MacDonalds and Pepsi Cola, I question that.What we are doing is a project that will take years and years.Israel seized his cassettes upon...Israel seized his cassettes upon invading his country, Lebanon, in 1982.At the same time, Khalife has been stretching the boundaries of his instrument and Arabic music.That really helped to form my musical awareness.Khalife always drew from diverse musical sources and composed in a variety of settings from oud duos to full orchestras.His composition is noted for being deeply attached to lyrical text.Millions in the Arab World recognize Khalife as a cultural icon.Khalife, who now lives in Paris.Marcel Khalife will be performing with Al Mayadine Ensemble, a group that he founded in 1976.Want this album in your Blog?Marcel Khalife's 1990 album predated by 15 years his appointment in 2005 as UNESCO's Artist for Peace award and shows his long and determined quest for peace.It was Marcel Khalife's debut lyrical album.Need Help listening to Samples?Arabic Coffeepot, a composition for orchestra, oud and solo voice.Khalife, a paradoxical and unique figure in world music, strives to create a reunification of Arabic classical and Western classical music, while admitting influences from folk and popular Arabic...Khalife, a paradoxical and unique figure in world music, strives to create a reunification of Arabic classical and Western classical music, while admitting influences from folk and popular Arabic traditions.Khalife sings these melodies himself with both a constant yearning quality and dramatic restraint.Although Khalife intends to create a serious classical music with Arabic Coffeepot, his combination of Western orchestral sounds with Middle Eastern percussion and Arabic melodies forges a world fusion that might even entertain Esquivel fans, not to mention devotees of soundtracks from the film studios of Hollywood and Bombay.Need Help listening to Samples?Want this album in your Blog?Want this album in your Blog?Early in his life, Marcel Khalife chose to be a traveler proposing to remove barriers between people, cultures and feelings without losing sight of the haven from where he first set sail.Now he offers us his Magic Carpet, a combined suite from his latest two ballets: Alisar, Queen of Carthage and Andalusia, both composed for the Caracalla Dance Troupe.Traveler of a thousand departures, magician...Early in his life, Marcel Khalife chose to be a traveler proposing to remove barriers between people, cultures and feelings without losing sight of the haven from where he first set sail.Traveler of a thousand departures, magician of a thousand tricks, Khalife carries us to Andalusia in a tale of travel and lost glory.Need Help listening to Samples?Marcel Khalife, Summer Night's Dream.In his original style, Khalife merges the rich music heritage of the Arab culture with the classical form.To this renaissance of rhythms from the past, the Caracalla Dance Troupe performs its own creation, the popular Arabic ballet.Together these artists have...Marcel Khalife, Summer Night's Dream.In his original style, Khalife merges the rich music heritage of the Arab culture with the classical form.To this renaissance of rhythms from the past, the Caracalla Dance Troupe performs its own creation, the popular Arabic ballet.Summer Night's Dream represents another milestone in the distinguished career of Marcel Khalife.In 1982, The History of All Times (L'histoire de tous les temps) declared a more refined style and undeniable talent.Inspired by William Shakespeare's rich and strange play, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Summer Night's Dream evokes enchantment and surprise.Beneath the romance of the tale flows a stream not just playful or seductive, but one which includes the dimmerand more melancholic forces of human passion.We perform this dancing play, not with words, but with all facets of the Arabic artistic heritage of dance, music, singing, spectacular costuming, and a lively theatrical production.This creation illuminates our Arabic heritage, transporting the audience to a world of charm and wizardry, balancing illusion and reality, but not excluding the conflict between the aristocrats, peasants and fairies.Summer Night's Dream escapes time and space through dimensions that embrace the impossible, to a world of magic and a world of joy.Khalife's music epitomizes the radiance of his humanism, his enormous gift, and great sensitivity.Never static or banal, never surrendering to the established or conventional forms.Need Help listening to Samples?Need Help listening to Samples?Want this album in your Blog?Need Help listening to Samples?Want this album in your Blog?Need Help listening to Samples?No reviews yet, write one today!He studied the oud (the Arabic lute) at the Beirut National conservatory, and, ever since, has been injecting a new life into the oud.Arab countries, Europe, the United States, Canada, South America, Australia, and Japan.Marcel Khalife, Lebanese composer and master of the oud (lute), is among the most influential creators of modern Arab music.But it is his total mastery of the Arab lute and his ability to push back its classical frontiers that have gained him the plaudits of critics worldwide.In late 2006 he released his 15th album, Taqasim, which is arguably his most audacious to date.Cortbaoui, Marcel Khalife accepted to answer detailed probings on his glittering career."Lo Cor De La Plana Lo Cor de la Plana and Chango Spasiuk bring their unique onstage energy and colour to the Festival of Global Music in New York on January 13th."Canadian ghazal singer Kiran Ahluwalia has a gorgeous singing voice and charismatic personality.Both are on display as Kiran along with her guitar playing husband Rez Abbasi, join host Dore Stein on Tangents.Indian jazz from Rez Abassi, fado from Mariza, and songs from thumri master Shoba Gurtu and Mauritanian singer Malouma."The 14th edition of the World Music Expo."Are you sure you want to block this user?This is not Marcel himself of course, but one of his many fans."Are you sure you want to delete this comment?"Glitter Graphics for Myspace, Hi5, Orkut, Friendster HappY New Years marcel .....Whoever you are thank you for this page!Marceli hope that u re so good ,ur family too.Thanks so much for adding me!Marcel's music since I first heard his album 'At the Border'.Thank you so much for the friendship !!!It 's our great pleasure to meet you here !Peace proces in action now.Hi ,Thank you for the add !All the best from Vancouver, Canada.Thanks for being a friend!!THE BEST MUSICIANS EVERRRRRRRRRRR!!!!Marcel Khalife is a genius that no one can dis like or not admire!!Es todo un placer escucharle."Age Of Disease" is uploaded !Videos for FREEOver 50,000 Comment Graphics!Best wishes and I hope you come and visit again!This could be an attempt to steal your username and password.This is not a MySpace login page, please do not enter your MySpace login information (email address or password).Do you wish to continue your form submission?"Id + " Link: " + 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