Racy,Aj / Peterson,James When The Rivers Met CD

When the Rivers Met represents a new collaboration between two extraordinary artists who come from different musical traditions, but who have created an exciting path for merging their respective artistic voices. A. J. Racy, is a Lebanese-born composer and phenomenal virtuoso on a variety of Middle Eastern wind and string instruments, who has achieved an unrivaled reputation in the fields of middle eastern music and scholarship. James Peterson is a highly innovative American composer and arranger, in the Western symphonic idiom. "When the Rivers Met" is a powerfully evocative and masterfully created musical suite in which Racy and Peterson weave a breathtaking tapestry of orchestral sounds punctuated by Racy's performances on the nay, kawala, buzuq, 'ud, plucked/bowed-tanbur and other Middle Eastern instruments.

1. Rivers 2. Eternal Flow 3. Silver Drops 4. Festival of Light 5. Fountain of Youth 6. Meadows of Gold 7. Valley of Hope 8. Revitalization 9. Good Earth 10. Hasbani 11. Elixir of Life 12. Embrace of the Sea