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Saed Haddad: Different

for quarter-tone marimba and orchestra

(2021/2022)

»Different« is an attempt to find other aesthetic directions, away from the aesthetics established in the 20th century. Although »Different« was written in 2019–2020, it belongs to the period between 2004–2006, when I tried to synthesize Arabic music with contemporary Western music.

»Different« is a modest attribute for any creative spirit that strives for independence and individuality and wants to stand out from the collective mind, from the style or way of thinking that prevails in a certain field, art or era. I can find no better words than the following quotes to express this:

»It is not always good to howl with the wolves.« (Debussy)

»Otherness is that which eludes definition when definition is established.« (Derrida)

»Style is man himself.« (Buffon)
Saed Haddad

The Jordanian-German composer and lecturer Saed Haddad (*1972 in Jordan), after training at the Catholic seminary of Beit-Jala (with the aim of becoming a priest), continued his philosophy studies in Belgium and subsequently composed in Jordan, Israel and England.

In his works from 2004–2006, he focused on a synthesis between the Western and Arab traditions; this was (and still is) accompanied by an extensive study of so-called Arab culture. From 2007 to 2014, Haddad used certain musical techniques to interrogate the idea of oblivion in Arab culture. They allow filtering the memory and at the same time introducing elements of oblivion. From 2015 to the present, Haddad sees musical composition as an ethical responsibility, linked to compassion for human suffering. In addition to clearer Arabic musical traces (which in a way form a synthesis of the two periods already mentioned), melancholy, darkness and some shades of pale light are salient features of this period.

Haddad’s music has been commissioned and performed by the most prestigious international ensembles and orchestras in Europe, North America, Asia, Africa, and Australia, under the direction of Daniel Barenboim, Heinz Holliger, and George Benjamin, among others. His work has been recognized with numerous awards, including the French and German Prix de Rome in 2008–10, the German Record Critics Award in 2010, and a commission from the Koussevitzky Music Foundation–Library of Congress in 2014.

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