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My peace is gone,
My heart is heavy,
I will find it never
and never more.
Where I do not have him,
That is the grave,
The whole world
Is bitter to me.

My poor head
Is crazy to me,
My poor mind
Is torn apart.

For him only, I look
Out the window
Only for him do I go
Out of the house.

His tall walk,
His noble figure,
His mouth's smile,
His eyes' power,

And his mouth's
Magic flow,
His handclasp,
and ah!
his kiss!

My peace is gone,
My heart is heavy,
I will find it never
and never more.

My bosom urges itself
toward him.
Ah, might I grasp
And hold him!

And kiss him,
As I would wish,
At his kisses
I should die!


Dima Orsho singing "Gretchen am Spinnrade" by Franz Schubert 2005

Syrian-American composer Kareem Roustom has received numerous commissions to write works for ensembles such as the Kronos Quartet, Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and others. Recent performances of Roustom’s ‘musically bilingual’ scores have been given by the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Malmö Opera Orchestra, and at a number of international festivals including the Verbier Festival, the Lucerne Festival, the Salzburg Festival, and the BBC Proms. Roustom’s music has been presented in recent concerts in Yerevan (Armenia), Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Argentina, Japan, China, and throughout the Middle East, as well as concerts across North America, including the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

Roustom’s recent orchestral work Ramal, commissioned by Daniel Barenboim for the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, was described by James R. Oestreich in the New York Times as “propulsive, colorful  and [an] immediately appealing creation.” Stephen Pritchard in The Guardian described Ramal as “arrestingly quirky and postmodern…music with lots of personality.”

04_MITS-1m01_May In The Summer Main Titles

Kareem Roustom

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