With work presented at the South by Southwest and Tribeca Film Festivals; his original music-based book, Dust and Ions, co-written with Yara Zgheib,...
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Alex Wakim
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About This Piece
The Wanderer is a stark work that channels the raw emotions of displacement through powerful lines, short Armenian chants, and percussive elements. Inspired by the haunting text of poems from the Armenian genocide, this original work for choir captures the rage, sorrow, and fear of being torn from one’s homeland.
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- Alex Wakim
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Oh, heavy hearted is the wanderer In foreign lands, who hath his country left! In gazing on the fever of his heart, Even the rocks with sorrow would be cleft. When you on any man would call a curse, Say, "Be a wanderer from your native land! And may your pillow be the mountain side, And may you sleep at night upon the sand! -Armenian Poems: Rendered into English Verse Translation by Alice Stone Blackwell, 1917 անեցք անվանեք ծնկածած տղամարդու When you on any man would call a curse Transliteration: anetsk' anvanek' ts'ankats'ats thamardu Phonetic guide: ah-NEHTSK ahn-vah-NEHK ts'AHN-kah-ts'AHTS tah-mahr-DOO