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'EXCLUSIVE: Mohammed Fairouz on W.H. Auden, 'No Orpheus' and (L)PR Dates
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'Universal Music Classic, Deutsche Grammophon Release Mohammed Fairouz Album 'Follow, Poet'
Universal Music Classics will release a new album on the Deutsche Grammophon imprint of work by Mohammed Fairouz titled "Follow, Poet," Jan. 27. The album marks the composer’s debut on the Yellow label, and the first release in the Universal Music Classic’s Return to Language series. The Return to Language series was created by Universal Music Classics President/CEO Elizabeth Sobol, a lifelong lover of literature. Sobol says it was only natural that the series be launched with Fairouz’s album. "There is a deep humanity and civic devotion to Mohammed’s music," she says. "For him, music isn’t an abstract art — it has a higher purpose.” The musical works on this album, "Audenesque" and "Sadat," each exalt the transformative power of language through different means: one poetic, one oratorical. In "Audenesque," Fairouz sets verse by the great 20th-century English poet W.H. Auden and late Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet Seamus Heaney. With "Sadat," the composer evokes in an instrumental work the stirring life-story of slain Egyptian president Anwar Sadat.
