Blending sacred choral tradition with experimental electronic music, the electro-acoustic work BETHLEHEM was created and broadcast during Christmas 2023, when Bethlehem’s Greek Orthodox Church of the Nativity chose to cancel all festive celebrations in response to the era-defining ethnic cleansing taking place in Palestine. In this context, Wonder Cabinet commissioned a new piece that brought together tenor Lawrence Sammour—also head of the Church of the Nativity’s choir for over fifty years—with two artists deeply rooted in Beirut’s experimental and underground music scenes: electronic musician, sound designer and producer Sary Moussa and composer Abed Kobeissy. 

Presented by Radio Alhara & Wonder Cabinet