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مسرحية هُدنة | موسيقى رفيق يوسف - "Hodna" OST

Whispers in the Shadows is a haunting and enigmatic composition that unfolds like a delicate secret carried by the night. The piece begins with a soft, atmospheric texture—subtle, almost imperceptible tones that echo like distant murmurs in a quiet forest. Ethereal strings weave a spectral melody, while deep, resonant bass lines pulse beneath, suggesting something unseen yet ever-present.
With a blend of tension and beauty, Whispers in the Shadows invites listeners into a world of mystery and intrigue—perfect for evoking suspenseful, introspective, or otherworldly moments. It lingers in the space between light and dark, leaving you with more questions than answers as it fades into the unknown.

Whispers in the Shadows

A small, blue edition of Hart Crane's masterpiece, The Bridge, has been living in my library for decades. The thought of doing something musically with it popped into mind now and then, but I never quite mustered the courage to do anything with it.  However, during the days of coronavirus driven isolation, when the importance of human connectedness, so aptly symbolized by the image of the bridge, had been hammered into our consciousness, the time had come. 

For those so inclined, read the poem. The Bridge, over the course of its 15 chapters, is an attempt to capture the essence of America in the 1920s, as Crane experienced it. I think he succeeded in capturing the complexities of America - from its violent beginnings as the culture of native Americans was crushed by expanding European cultures to the crass commercialism that erupted at the turn of the century (and still exists, in spades, today), tempered by the buoyant optimism and hope for mankind in spirits like Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and the American transcendentalists. But above all, the poem relies upon the Brooklyn Bridge as a symbol of connectedness, spanning the myriad of events across time and geography that culminate in what we are, wherever we are, today.

Crane’s poem attempted perhaps too much.  The span of the Brooklyn Bridge became a symbol of everything connected to everything else – the past to the present, urban America to rural America, a vast dream of America from its pre-European existence to the bustling America of big, industrial cities and great railroads spanning the continent.

In this music, the solo viola, in its middle range, spans between the musical soundscapes that represent the images evoked by the poem.  It reaches between the low and high instruments, between the dark, swirling eddies of water beneath the bridge to the searing sunlight, piercing the harp-like cables of the bridge, while seagulls soar overhead.  It also is the voice of the poem’s protagonist, seeking redemption in a violent and crassly commercial world.

Scattered, like leaves, in the music, are apparitions from the past – a fragment of a melody from a court composer to Ferdinand and Isabella, a made-up Irish gig, bits of jazz and flashes of tunes from the 1920s that Hart Crane would have heard during his days in New York.
 


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حب في زمن الكراهيه - واحة الغروب - تامر كروان / Love In Hate - Wahet Elghroub - Tamer Karwan

فيلم فوتوكوبي - ليال وطفه / layalwatfeh - PHOTOCOPY mix ميكس

موسيقى فيلم فوتوكوبي لـ ليال وطفة - Photocopy Original Sound Track By Layal Watfeh

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غلطات صغيرة. Diamond Dust -تراب الماس 2018 Hesham Nazih

مقطوعة "إشتياق"
من موسيقى مسرحية - شارع 19
لفريق مسرح كلية تجارة - جامعة القاهرة
تأليف وإخراج: محمود جمال حديني
تأليف موسيقي: رفيق يوسف

مسرحية هُدنة | موسيقى رفيق يوسف - "Hodna" OST

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