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"The work is fairly narrative in my mind. The music is metaphor for understanding, cooperation, peace, absurdity and... love. Arabic pitch and rhythmic scales are explored, most notably in the first movement, and then less so as the work progresses until the fire and brimstone final movement, which is overly Western (Well, overly Western if you can ignore the 11th century Prayer of the Dead 'Dies Irae' and the shell-shocked answer of ' |