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At-Tahajjud (2024)

by Preben Antonsen, to extracts of poetry from Muslim female mystics (9th-12th centuries)

Workshopped at Scripps College and scheduled for premiere with the Golden Thread Series  in DTLA on March 1, 2024, the 50-minute chamber cycle for voice, clarinet, light percussion and harp illuminates the lives of women from the Sufi Muslim tradition in 16 songs setting their poetry. Sung in Arabic.

Scheduled for recording release in fall 2025 as Volume 6 on Voices of the Pearl.

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