Occasion this Tuesday night on the European Fee in Brussels. Omar Harfouch, who has been within the information in current weeks following his acquisition of Entrevue journal, has proven that he has a number of strings to his bow. Honorary President of the Group for Dialogue and Range, the businessman, additionally a pianist-composer, performed his model new piece of music, which he specifically composed for a name for world peace. A bit can also be entitled “Save a life, you save humanity,” a couple of well-known phrase talked about within the Torah and the Holy Koran.
The live performance happened in the primary corridor of the European Fee throughout a musical night organized on the eve of the European summit, which brings collectively all European leaders, together with French President Emmanuel Macron, to make essential selections regarding the way forward for Ukraine and the state of affairs within the Center East.
Throughout his efficiency, Omar Harfouch learn Surah Al-Ma’idah 32: “The Almighty says: and he who saves a life, it’s as if he had saved all humanity,” in entrance of European officers and decision-makers, all beneath the sponsorship of European Commissioner Oliviér Várhelyi.
Through the studying of this surah, the viewers had a stunned face as they heard the Holy Quran, which for the primary time was learn contained in the European Fee constructing. Very concerned in his battle for peace, Omar Harfouch requested political leaders to vow him one factor: that they might every save a life after listening to his music, composed for the event.
The composer’s new musical work was composed of two elements symbolizing the divisions of as we speak’s world: the primary tells of a full and blissful life stuffed with love and tolerance. The second describes a lifetime of unhappiness, destruction, concern, lack of safety, and hope. This poses a vital query: which world can we need to dwell in: the primary or the second?
From the tip of the primary half, performed on the piano with the orchestra, the viewers warmly applauded the musicians. On the finish of the second half, the viewers was on its toes, and a few individuals within the viewers have been unable to include a number of tears.
The success was such that Omar Harfouch and his orchestra have been instantly requested by the ambassadors current within the room to play this composition in all European cities. Notice that in this live performance, Omar Harfouch was accompanied by his official violinist, the Ukrainian Anna Bondarenko, and an orchestra of fifteen musicians from completely different nationalities: French, Belgian, Syrian, Ukrainian, and Macedonian.
It was additionally the primary time {that a} classical music live performance happened in an official constructing of the European Fee in Brussels.