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At-Tahajjud (2024)
by Preben Antonsen, to extracts of poetry from Muslim female mystics (9th-12th centuries)
World premiere on February 22, 2026 at 3 p.m. at Scripps College's Garrison Theatre for the Performing Arts (Anne Dorothy Harley & Stacey Fraser sopranos; Alison Bjorkedal, harp & Brian Walsh, clarinet).
NEA Commission by rising composer Preben Antonsen
A 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 summer 2026 as Volume 6 on Voices of the Pearl.
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