Friday 03/April/2026 – 06:31 AM
Evaluate Egyptian Opera House The Spring Festival concert of the Cairo Symphony Orchestra, which is led by the musical director and main conductor, Maestro Ahmed Al-Saidi, during which soprano Maryam Tahoun, bassist Reda El-Wakil, and pianist Yasser Mokhtar participate with the Acapella Choir, and it comes as part of a series of performances of international works, at six-thirty in the evening on Saturday, April 4, at the Grand Theater.
The program includes a piece for piano and orchestra by Carl Maria von Weber, the Funeral Mass for Solstice, choir and orchestra by Gabrielle Fauré, as well as a composition entitled Sinfonietta, which appears for the first time and was written by the German composer Theodor Karl Levin in 1945 while he was captive by the British in the Medicine Hat camp in the Canadian province of Alberta. It was discovered in 2013 within his estate and was designed to be a multi-voice orchestral work. “Polyphonic”, also multi-maqam, in which two or more maqams are played at the same time. Its author has drawn up a special guide for this work in which he explains the steps of composition with extreme precision.
It is worth noting that Theodor Karl Levin is a German writer and composer who finished high school late due to World War I. He attended the Technical University of Berlin from 1921 to 1924, but did not graduate in Berlin. He joined the Cartel Association of the German Catholic Student Fraternity. After that, he worked as an accountant in various companies, and served as a musician in the French Foreign Legion between 1926 and 1931. He was conscripted in 1939 in the German army for military service in World War II.
