“Pipes for Peace” and a concert dedicated to Ramy Fakhry

Ahram Online, Sunday 13 Nov 2011

Following “Pipes for Peace”, Petite Messe Solennelle will be performed by the Cairo Celebration Choir in the Basilique Church and the Cairo Opera House Lobby, dedicated to Ramy Fakhry, shot by the Egyptian army in May

CCC

On Thursday, 17 November “Pipes for Peace” and the Cairo Celebration Choir (CCC) will perform in the Basilique Church in Heliopolis.

First half of the concert will include compositions arranged for organ and violin. Peter van de Velde is an organist of the Cathedral of Antwerp at the console of the pipe organ in the Anglican Cathedral of Cairo. Nadja Nevolovitsch was born in St. Petersburg and continued her studies in Lubeck and Brussels. She plays a violin made by Camillus Camilli in Mantua in 1731.

The second half of the concert will be dedicated to Ramy Fakhry. The Cairo Celebration Choir conducted by Nayer Nagui with soloists Mona Rafla (Soprano), Jolie Faizy (Mezzo-Soprano), Ragaa El-Din Ahmed (Tenor) and Emad Adel (Baritone), with Grieg Martin on piano and Mohamed Saleh on harmonium, will perform Rossini’s “Petite Messe Solennelle”.

“Petite Messe Solennelle” will be performed also at the Cairo Opera House Lobby on Saturday, 19 November.

Ramy Fakhry, a 27-year-old electrical engineer, was shot three times from behind by the Egyptian army when he stumbled across a shootout between military forces and drug traffickers on Friday, 13 May, according to one account. Many, however, question the circumstances of his death.

Ramy was a member of the Cairo Celebration Choir (CCC), founded in 1999 by Nayer Nagui, and consisting of amateur singers performing regularily in a variety of locations in Egypt.

 

Programme:

Thursday, 17 November at 7.30pm in Basilique Church, Heliopolis

“Pipes for Peace”: Compositions arranged for organ and violin. (the same concert will also take place on 16 November at 8pm at All Saints Cathedral, Zamalek)

Rossini’s “Petite Messe Solennelle” by the Cairo Celebration Choir and the soloists – Concert dedicated to Ramy Fakhry

(Admission Free)

Saturday, 19 November at 2pm in the Cairo Opera House Lobby

Rossini’s “Petite Messe Solennelle” by the Cairo Celebration Choir and the soloists – Concert dedicated to Ramy Fakhry

(tickets LE35)

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