Zagreb 12/10/26 8 p.m
Vatroslav Lisinski Small Hall
Stjepan Radić Sq 4, Zagabria, Croazia
Cantus Ensemble’s season

Hind

for ensemble

Icarus Ensemble
Tommaso Ussardi, conductor

Premiere of the new version
for flute, clarinet, bassoon, percussion, piano, violin, viola, cello,
and 8 prayer books

On 29 January 2024, the Israeli forces army killed the Palestinian girl Hind Rajab along with six other
members of her family and two paramedics coming to her rescue. After surviving the bombing of the
car they were travelling in, Hind and her cousin managed to contact the Palestinian Red Crescent to ask
for help. The recordings made by the operators, still available online, were probably their last words.
The soundscape of the work articulates collapses, debris, voices and sounds retrieved from numerous
documents dedicated to the invasion of Gaza. The audience enters and leaves this sonic space through a
seemingly light theatrical device. From this world, Hind’s small voice tries to emerge. The second in a
series of works I intend to dedicate to her, “Hind” for ensemble is a contribution to lifting the veils, our
own.