Brooklyn Maqam is an organization dedicated to presenting Middle Eastern (in particular, Arabic) music, with the goals of expanding its audience, preserving it as an art form, and building community centered around the music.
This month:
Donia Massoud: Folk Gossips A Cappella From Egypt
Donia Massoud will present a collection of ancient Egyptian and Arab songs in an intimate a cappella performance. These songs, once on the brink of disappearing, reveal captivating stories through their music.
Donia Massoud is a singer, actress, and music researcher. She has revived nearly lost Egyptian and Arab music traditions, performing them in theatrical settings. Her work has been showcased internationally, including at prestigious venues like the Cairo Opera House and the Institut du Monde Arabe.
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Biography
Renowned for her contributions to music performance, ethnology, documentation, and rearrangement of almost disappearing music heritage from Egypt and the Arabic speaking region, Donia Massoud is a singer, actress, and music researcher.
Her work has toured extensively in the Arabic Speaking World and Europe for almost two decades, and was presented on reputable world stages including Kammerspiele (Munich), Cairo Opera House (Cairo), Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris), Bastionen (Malmo), Jerash Amphitheater (Jerash), Museo Egizio (Torino), Zanzibar Castle (Zanzibar), among many others.
Between and , Donia Massoud has travelled to several Arab villages collecting a heritage nearly lost, of sacred and profane songs and music material.
Discovering theatrical and choreographic material related to that music heritage, Donia’s renditions of this canon took a theatre and performance based turn, staging these works into unique works that straddle the format of concert, plays and performance art.
Through her research, and rearrangements, this music heritage was made available to large audiences, and eventually released as the record “Mahtet Masr”.
As an actress, she has worked
DOUNIA MASSOUD
Biographie de Dounia Massoud
Née et élevée à Alexandrie, Donia Massoud est partie au Caire à l'âge de 19 ans, seule et indépendante, à l'indignation et au chagrin de sa famille.
Après plusieurs expériences sur scène, à la fois chant et interprétation, Massoud entreprend un voyage de trois ans à la recherche et à la documentation de la poésie et de la musique populaires.
Elle a parcouru tout le pays, de Suez à la Haute-Egypte, pour apprendre et étudier les répertoires musicaux des gens ordinaires.
À son retour, elle a fondé sa propre troupe indépendante de musiciens, avec qui elle tourne maintenant l'Europe, l'Asie et l'Afrique interprétant des chansons folkloriques égyptiennes.
Elle a également rejoint le groupe Fathi Salama et la troupe Al-Warsha, ce qui lui a permis d'être en contact avec le public local.
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Mahatet Masr
Born and bred in Alexandria, Donia Massoud left for Cairo at the age of 19, alone and independent, to the outrage and chagrin of her family. After a number of experiences on stage, both singing and acting, Massoud began a three-year journey searching for and documenting folk poetry and music. She traveled the length and breadth of the country, from Suez to Upper Egypt, to learn and study the musical repertoires of ordinary people. On her return, she founded her own independent troupe of musicians, with whom she now tours Europe, Asia and Africa performing Egyptian folkloric songs. She also joined both the Fathi Salama group and Al- Warsha troupe, which gave her a way to be in touch with local audiences. All she has to do is step on stage, alone, and she takes on a very special character of her own -- a style she herself describes as 'a coquettishness reminiscent of Shadia and Soaad Hosni [two legends of Egyptian cinema] as they were in the s and s.' Excerpts from an article by Mustafa El-Menshawy, in Al Ahram weekly.
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