{"id":69499,"date":"2026-06-01T13:56:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T09:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=69499"},"modified":"2026-06-18T15:21:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T11:21:48","slug":"rhythm-without-borders","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/rhythm-without-borders\/","title":{"rendered":"UAENO Season One Finale: Rhythm Without Borders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UAE National Orchestra has selected a terrific-looking programme for its Season One Finale under the baton of Ahmed Farag \u2013 colour, rhythm, and energy, &#8220;a vibrant celebration of diversity through music&#8221; as the blurb puts it \u2013 that includes exciting contributions from the Western canon alongside compositions from oud master (and director of the Emirates Musical Ensemble) Abdulaziz Almadani \u2013 The Fiftieth Samaei, a piece that reimagines the historic samai form through a contemporary lens \u2013 and Qoutayba Neaimi&#8217;s specially commissioned orchestral suite celebrating the UAE&#8217;s musical heritage through arrangements of familiar songs by Emirati composers.<\/p>\n<p>The programme:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Bernstein <\/strong>Symphonic Dances from West Side Story<\/li>\n<li><strong>M\u00e1rquez <\/strong>Danzon No.2<\/li>\n<li><strong>Abdulaziz Almadani<\/strong> The Fiftieth Samaei<\/li>\n<li><strong>Saint-Sa\u00ebns<\/strong> Bacchanale from Samson and Delilah<\/li>\n<li><strong>Qoutayba Neaimi\u00a0<\/strong>Suite for Orchestra and Choir of Famous Emirati Songs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The programme is repeated tomorrow at NYUAD Arts Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The UAE National Orchestra has selected a terrific-looking programme for its Season One Finale under the baton of Ahmed Farag \u2013 colour, rhythm, and energy, &#8220;a vibrant celebration of diversity through music&#8221; as the blurb puts it \u2013 that includes <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/rhythm-without-borders\/\" title=\"UAENO Season One Finale: Rhythm Without Borders\"> [&#8230; more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67055,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[101],"class_list":["post-69499","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","tribe_events_cat-concert","cat_concert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/69499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/69499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69499"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=69499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}