Apo xeno meros - to work for a loving world (Jordi Savall, Choir of the Scuola Vivante)

This future generation is given a voice, invited to participate in this dialogue, to carry it forward, and to work toward a loving world. Jordi Savall integrated the choir of the Scuola Vivante into the final part of the concert in a Turkish, Arabic, Greek and Hebrew variation of the folk song Ghazali – a song that has spread throughout the Middle East and has been sung or danced in various countries, each in a slightly modified form, in their own national language, but still unmistakably the same piece. Apo xeno meros, the Greek tradition, forms the beginning. By including the children's and youth choir of the Scuola Vivante, Jordi Savall drew a line from early music – with its central concern of preserving history – to the current politically, socially and religiously tense situations between North and South and East and West: towards the future generation that will carry us forward. This generation is given a voice in the concert and is called upon to participate in these dialogues, to continue them and to work for a loving world. Jordi Savall, Fidel , Rebab& Direction Aikaterini Papadopoulou, Vocal Choir of the Scuola Vivante HESPÈRION XXI Pierre Hamon, Flute Michaël Grébil, Laute & Zither Andrew Lawrence-King, Harfe Pedro Estevan, Percussion Haïg Sarikouyoumdjian, Ney Gaguik Mouradian, Kamancha Hakan Güngör, Kanun Yurdal Tokcan, Oud Yair Dalal, Oud Dimitri Psonis, Santur Erez Shmuel Mounk, Percussion Apo xeno meros (Greek Tradition) Mare Nostrum - Dialogue of Ottoman, Jewish and Christian music from around the Mediterranean CH - Buchs SG, April 2014 www.marenostrum-film.ch