By Niloufar Nourbakhsh | For Flute, Violin, Viola | 8′
Title: White helmets, as white as death
Composer: Niloufar Nourbakhsh
Year Composed: 2017
Instrumentation: For Flute, Violin, and Viola
Duration: 8′
Format: Performance Set: Full Score + 3 Parts
Page Size: US Letter
Catalog Number: OM1004
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From the composer:
Khalid Farah, Former Builder
Abu Omar, Former Blacksmith
Mohammed Farah, Former Tailor
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These are some of the names of nearly 3000 volunteers who work for the White Helmets organization, and they have saved more than 82,000 civilian lives in the mercenary-controlled Syria since 2014. Their motto is: “to save a life is to save all of humanity”.
In White helmets, as white as death, I aimed to depict the most beautiful nature of this organization: to remain a human under the most inhumane conditions of war, which brings nothing but a thick blanket of destruction, death, and hopelessness. I searched for beauty in the most extreme and intense instrumental ranges of violin, viola, and flute, because the White Helmets have taught me that we must never give up hope. No matter how extreme the environment is, we must always fight for what’s right.
Premiere: Performed in 2017 by the Kocham Trio (Eun Hae Grace Oh, flute; Micaela Fruend Haimov, viola; Shanrong Sabrina Tuo, violin) at Stony Brook University’s Staller Center for the Arts.
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