Halim El-Dabh
Halim El-Dabh ( Arabic حليم الضبع, DMG Ḥalīm aḍ-Ḍabʿ ; * March 4, 1921 in Cairo ; † September 2, 2017 in Kent , Ohio ) was an American composer , musicologist and music teacher of Egyptian origin and one of the pioneers of electroacoustic music.
El-Dabh studied agriculture at Cairo University until 1945 . He then went to the United States and studied music at the University of New Mexico , Brandeis University and the New England Conservatory of Music . From 1969 he was professor of African ethnomusicology at Kent State University . He also taught at Howard University and Addis Ababa University , where he founded the Orchestra Ethiopia .
He worked scientifically a. a. on Zaar music in Egypt, Ethiopia and the Congo, Egyptian zikre and Brazilian candomblé and umbanda music and was cultural and music-ethnological advisor for the puppet show project of the Smithsonian Institution in Egypt and Guinea from 1974 to 1981 . The puppeteers of the project were among others. a. for the 200th anniversary of the USA in 1976 in New York. At the Middfest Folklife Festival in Middletown, Ohio, he also oversaw a puppet show from Egypt. At Middfest International's 20-Year, 25-Nation Retrospective in 2005, he appeared with an international percussion ensemble .
El-Dabh studied composition with Aaron Copland and Irving Fine at the Berkshire Music Center in Massachusetts. In the late 1950s he worked at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in New York. He composed electronic music, operas, symphonies, chamber music works and ballet music for Martha Graham , his first electroacoustic composition being written as early as 1944.
He died on September 2, 2017 at the age of 96.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ KSU professor, musician Halim El-Dabh dies . ( Memento of January 23, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) In: Record-Courier, September 2, 2017, accessed on September 4, 2017 (English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | El-Dabh, Halim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American composer, musicologist and music teacher of Egyptian origin and one of the pioneers of electroacoustic music |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 4, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cairo |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd September 2017 |
| Place of death | Kent , Ohio |