Kouyoumdjian: A Boy and a Makeshift Toy (Version for Viola & Piano)

Description

• Composer: Mary Kouyoumdjian (1983-)
• Instrumentation: Piano, Viola
• Work: A Boy and a Makeshift Toy (2015)
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• Pages: None

Description

Duration| 10′

Inspired by the work of American Pulitzer-nominated war photographer Chris Hondros, who captured images of children in wars around the world, the Children of Conflict series is a collection of sonic portraits based off of Hondros’ intimately revealing photography with hopes to continue the storytelling and dialogue of his work prompts. “A Boy and a Makeshift Toy” is a portrait of a young boy playing in an abandoned train station, full of Albanian refugees, waiting to be taken to another camp. During an 11-week bombing campaign in 1999, Serbians displaced more than 800,000 Albanians out of Kosovo.