Kouyoumdjian: Samar’s Song

Description

• Composer: Mary Kouyoumdjian (1983-)
• Format: Score & Set of Parts
• Instrumentation: Violin, Electronics, Percussion I, Percussion II
• Work: Samar’s Song (2013)
• Binding:
• Pages: None

Description

Duration| 5′

for amplified violin, 2 percussionists, and audio playback

Part of the Children of Conflict series, “Samar’s Song” is a portrait piece of a young Samar Hassan during the Iraq War. At the age of five, when her family drove back from taking her ill brother to the hospital, U.S. soldiers opened fire on their car, making her parents civilian casualties in her full sight. This is inspired by a photograph taken by the late Pulitzer-nominated photographer Chris Hondros of Hassan screaming and covered in her parents’ blood.