{"id":961,"date":"2013-10-09T09:58:35","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T16:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/?p=961"},"modified":"2013-10-09T11:34:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T18:34:00","slug":"961","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/?p=961","title":{"rendered":"Children of the Stones book excerpt, from Granta"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Child of the stones: Ramzi Aburedwan, in 1987 and 1997<\/p><\/div>\n

An excerpt, published in Granta,\u00a0 from Children of the Stones<\/em> (working title), my forthcoming book (Bloomsbury, 2014) about making music under occupation in Palestine.\u00a0 Much of the book focuses on Ramzi Aburedwan, a child of the first Palestinian intifada<\/em>, whose Al Kamandjati music center serves hundreds of Palestinian children in the West Bank and refugee camps in Lebanon.\u00a0 From the Granta piece:<\/p>\n

Fadi\u2019s Italian arias represented another form of freedom. Anyone who heard him sing for the first time was astonished by the power and tone of the boy\u2019s clear soprano. His pitch, and his resonance, seemed to reach inside listeners. In the practice room with Julia, Fadi\u2019s voice would soar above the piano, cutting through the ambient din of Jenin: clear and resonant. In recitals, he had a natural dramatic presence, his eyes widening at emotional turns in the piece, as if he understood the original Italian. He memorized his first song, \u2018Sebben, Crudele\u2019 written by the Italian baroque composer Antonio Caldara for his 1710 opera, La costanza in amor vince l\u2019inganno (Faithfulness in love conquers treachery), in a single lesson. The next evening he performed it at a recital for other students, accompanied by Jason on the piano. Julia was stunned. Teachers found themselves on the verge of tears. \u2018A star! A new star at the Kamandj\u00e2ti!\u2019 Fadi declared that evening, giddy with his own gifts and laughing in celebration. <\/em>Read more, in Granta…<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An excerpt, published in Granta,\u00a0 from Children of the Stones (working title), my forthcoming book (Bloomsbury, 2014) about making music under occupation in Palestine.\u00a0 Much of the book focuses on Ramzi Aburedwan, a child of the first Palestinian intifada, whose Al Kamandjati music center serves hundreds of Palestinian children in the West Bank and refugee more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964,"href":"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}