"HYMN TO THE NILE" (PDF)This worksheet asks students to analyze an ancient poem composed in honor of the Nile River. TALES FROM EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY: A SCRIPT-STORY COLLECTIONThis collection features three script-stories that adapt the popular story of the god Osiris, his devoted wife, Isis, ...
He deftly weaves a pseudo-coherence between the racist slur described in the poem and a plea for the sanctity of sand: ‘It is typical of us mortals / to mock this Earth. To spit / on its Holy.’ For Fahmy the taste of sand woke poetry in him, and from the desert his body rises...
Bartók: Concerto For Orchestra; Four PiecesKarina Canellakis, conductor (Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra) Price: Symphony No. 4; Dawson: Negro Folk SymphonyYannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor (The Philadelphia Orchestra) Scriabin: Symphony No. 2; The Poem Of EcstasyJoAnn Falletta, conductor (B...
typical music of the people. In all three countries, chaabi is highly fusional, and its sound jubilant and celebratory, often played in weddings, festivals and dances. However, in each country, chaabi shares nation-specific characteristics and carries distinguished implications. It speaks for the co...