| Format | HDCAM |
|---|---|
| Duration | 52 min |
| Year | 2013 |
| Original Language | Swissgerman, French |
| Subtitles | German, English, French |
| Country | Switzerland |
| ISAN | 0000-0003-6AC2-0000-P-0000-0000-0 |
Two Rivers – Two Songs
A film by Sarah Derendinger
Synopsis
The musician and composer Fortunat Frölich is traveling to Morocco with a Swiss choir. He plans to perform the intercultural project "Sing oh Wave" in Rabat, together with the Choeur du Maroc and their director Sanae El Amri. Fortunat Frölich puts two songs in the center of a composition, which combines polyphonic songs of the Swiss minority of the Rumantsch with ornamentations and quarter tones of the unisonous Moroccan songs. Each song praises a river – on the one hand the river Inn, which has its source in the Swiss mountains in the Engadine valley and on the other hand the river Bouregreg, which reaches the Mediterranean Sea in Rabat. Just as the lyrics in the songs reveal the cultural differences, the encounter of the two choirs shows, that Swiss and Moroccan conventions don't merge without any attrition.
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«Intercultural work is both a challenge and a fascination. A process that gets me deeper and deeper into the wonderful secret hineinführen that man sings songs in all cultures of the world.»
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