World Premières
The Al Bustan Festival has commissioned contemporary composers to create new works especially for it. Among these are:
- 1996 - John Tavener's Feast of Feasts. The World Première at the Festival was performed by the Yurlov State Choir in the ancient Grand Hall of Balamand Abbey in North Lebanon.
- 1999 - Roxanna Panufnik composed Modlitwa (Prayer), a song without words which was performed by the Chilingirian Quartet in a World Première. Roxanna dedicated the piece to the Al Bustan Festival and the Première to the memory of her father, Andrzej Panufnik.
- 2000 - Naji Hakim, the composer and organist, was commissioned to write a choral work for the Al Bustan Festival. The World Première of this piece, Children, was taken from Khalil Gibran's Speak to us of Children from his book "The Prophet". The work was performed by the Vox Nova Choir and the Concerto Copenhagen Orchestra in the Church of Maghdouche in Lebanon.
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