On January 12th 2013, flutist Laura Falzon and pianist Kathleen Tagg performed the US premiere of composer Bushra El-Turk’s Marionette for flute and piano at the Lincoln Center in New York City.
Marionette depicts the struggle against constraints and doctrines of society, religious authority and all those who impose their beliefs upon others. The three ‘Nos’ one says in the Lebanese dialect of Arabic, ‘hu’u’, ‘tut’ and ‘la” are incorporated in the different contexts of the piece symbolising the Marionette’s struggle against these constrains.
British born Lebanese Composer Bushra El-Turk‘s music “forebears the influence of her Lebanese roots and straddles Eastern and Western idioms which seek to question Eastern cultural principles in contemporary Western contexts, all the while leaning towards the absurd and theatrical.” Her work has been performed by many including the London Symphony Orchestra, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Scottish Symphony Orchestra.