Drew McManus on the Orchestra business | est. 2003

Kareem Roustom

Cultural Empathy Requires More Than Soundbites

Fri, Aug 8, 2017
Adaptistration People 016
In the weeks and months following the Trump travel ban I received several email requests from composers that were along the lines of the following: “I’m looking for melodies from the seven countries affected by the Trump travel ban.” …or… “[I’d like to write] arrangements of tunes sung by refugees (or more broadly, folk tunes/other