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Elaf: At the invitation of the Department of Culture and Tourism, the Lebanese singer, Jahida Wehbe, is preparing to travel to Abu Dhabi, where she will perform on the night of February 25, a “jazzy” evening par excellence at the Cultural Foundation, entitled: Night 352, in which she will transfer the audience to one of the most beautiful nights of “One Thousand and One Nights” with Osama Abdel Rasoul and his orchestra. Brussels Jazz, through well-known poems by Shakespeare, Al-Mutanabbi, Badr Shaker Al-Sayyab and Muzaffar Al-Nawab, to excerpts from the sweetest songs that still live in memory.
The work was composed by Abdel-Rasoul, a musician, and prepared by Hazem Kamal El-Din as a dramatist. Elements of the orchestra, which is currently considered one of the most important and largest jazz bands in the world, distributed its pieces.
Wehbe, who recently inaugurated with her voice the activities of the cultural summit in Abu Dhabi, returns to her in a program that will captivate the listeners, and a contemporary show that mixes Eastern Arabic singing with jazz and the improvisation that accompanies them in a unique and different way. On the sidelines of her visit, “The Poem of Singing,” as the press calls it, will run a workshop for music students and those interested that will focus on vocal music and performance art.
It is noteworthy that Wehbe will be a guest on the famous Prince of Poets program, in which she will sing the poem “The Pigeons Fly” by the poet Mahmoud Darwish from her melodies.