The Grinnell Singers help bring a young composer's work to life

Fairouz is a prolific young Arab-American composer whose cross-cultural compositions have been performed all over the world, and whose work has recently garnered attention from the BBC in the UK and Public Radio International in the USA. His first opera, Sumeida's Song was premiered in January at the Prototype Festival in New York, and his Symphony Number Four for Wind Ensemble premieres at Carnegie Hall late in March. Anything Can Happen was the result of a joint commission of The Grinnell Singers of Grinnell College in Iowa, the Back Bay Chorale, Marsh Chapel at Boston University and Cantori New York.

• The Classical Review, "Back Bay Chorale muses on last things with new Fairouz work, Mozart Requiem." March 18, 2013.