Abdel Rahman El Bacha Shows Support For Lebanon

An exceptional concert will be performed by the Lebanese pianist and composer Abdel Rahman el Bacha in support for Lebanon, on Saturday, August 29th in the magnificent garden of the Gordes town, a charming village located in Provence south of France.

The young mayor of Gordes, Richard Kitaeff, took this humanitarian initiative to help Lebanon, and he collaborated with "Les Rencontres Méditerranéennes" led by Zeina Trad, Cyril Delattre and Paul Molga with the invaluable help of Pascale Ojeil in Lebanon. The famous pianist, composer and performer, Abdel Rahman El Bacha will play Beethoven, Ravel and his own compositions for an hour with no intermission. At last, an exceptionnal duo with the famous cellist Astrig Siranossian will end the concert.

The magnificent gardens of Gordes

Ticket sales will be donated directly to Achrafieh 2020 Association through Just Help platform. The fund-raising concert will also be filmed by the photographer and videographer Mazen Jannoun based in Aix en Provence. The event may be fully streamed via the Al Nahar website and partially on France 3. Robert Harfouche, from the Just Help platform dedicated a page to this event where you will be able to contribute for a food donation and thus be tax exempt if you are resident in France by 66%, to do that head to achrafieh2020.just-help.org

Abdel Rahman el Bacha will play on a piano coming directly from the Roque d'Anthéron Festival where he will perform on August 16th. El Bacha did not hesitate for a second to offer his performance to support his home country.

The schedule of the concert will be as such:

Beethoven

Sonata no 8 in C minor op 13 "Pathétique"

El Bacha

Andalusian song

Lebanese song

Marie, or the death of a child

2nd Romance

Variations on an Egyptian tune

Ravel

A boat on the ocean

The Valley of the Bells

Alborada del gracioso