WHFR.FM AND "SPACE IS THE PLACE" ARE VERY PROUD TO PRESENT A SPECIAL INTERVIEW / DISCUSSION WITH "THE FATHER OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC" HALIM EL-DABH FRIDAY AUGUST 28TH 6 P.M. TO 8 P.M.

Halim El-Dabh

Please join Whfr.fm 89.3 FM and Tom Wilson, Host of "Space is the Place" fridays 6-8 p.m. on Friday 8-28-2015  for an Incredible Listening Opportunity as He Speaks Live via phone to Composer, Performer,Ethnomusicologist and Educator, Particularly Known as an Early Pioneer of Electronic Music, Halim El-Dabh

(Egyptian born, 1921)  Halim El-Dabh is credited with composing the Worlds First Piece of Electronic Tape Music / Musique Concrete, "Ta'abir Al Zaar (Wire Recorder Piece), predating Pierre Schaeffer by four years

He is noted for his Influential work at Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center from 1959-61 which included co-composing two pieces of electronic music with Otto Luening, and was aquainted with Vladimir Ussachevsky as well as John Cage,Aaron Copeland, and Leonard Bernstein, and composing Electronic Music pieces on the RCA Synthesizer

El-Dabh became part of the NYC music scene of the 1950's along side of other Great like minded composers such as Henry Cowell,Edgar Varese, and Alan Hovhaness among other notable artist.

He has Influenced Musicians as diverse as Frank Zappa to The West Coast Experiemental Pop Art Band and many,many more!

Halim wrote four scores for Martha Graham Ballet's including her Masterpiece "Clytemnestra" 1958.

His Composition for Orchestral/Choral score for the Sound and Light Show at the Sphinx and Pyramids of Giza has been performed there Every Evening since 1961

Halim El-Dabh is Particularly Noted for Combining Egyptian and Native American Folk Elements to His Electronic Music, setting him apart from his peers at Columbia Princeton. He was a Longtime Educator at Kent State University, OH from 1969-91 and lives in Kent OH with his wife Deborah

El-Dabh's primary instruments are piano and Darabukha like the one he is pictured with (courtesy of Kent State) which was donated by Deborah and Halim to the Arab American Nationa Museum here in Dearborn

To Fully Understand the Amazing, and Many Contributions El-Dabh has made to Music of the 20th and twenty-first centuries are Too Many to list here! See Halimeldabh.com

DO NOT MISS THIS EXTRAORDINARY OPPORTUNITY TO HERE ABOUT THE HISTORY OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC AS TOLD BY THE MAN WHO MADE IT, HALIM EL-DABH!

PLEASE JOIN US IN MAKING WAVES WITH HALIM AT WHFR.FM 89.3 FM ON THE "SPACE IS THE PLACE" PROGRAM FRIDAY AUGUST 28TH, 2015! THANK YOU