26 Sep 2022

Letters from Iraq

From Standing Room Only, 10:45 am on 26 September 2022

Oud Virtuoso Rahim AlHaj is bringing his acclaimed work, Letters from Iraq, to Aotearoa New Zealand. It's a series of instrumental poems based on actual letters written by people desperately trying to survive in his war torn homeland. A powerful musical meditation on the consequences of war was written in 2017 but listening to it now with the war in Ukraine reminds makes it every bit as relevant now. 

Rahim AlHaj

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