{"id":22661,"date":"2022-11-22T19:24:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T23:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=22661"},"modified":"2022-11-22T20:12:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T00:12:03","slug":"good-bye-mr-romeo-lahoud-thanks-for-your-artistic-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2022\/11\/22\/good-bye-mr-romeo-lahoud-thanks-for-your-artistic-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Good-bye, Mr. Romeo Lahoud: Thanks for your artistic legacy!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"484\" height=\"239\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/FinalRomeoLahoud.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/FinalRomeoLahoud.jpg 484w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/FinalRomeoLahoud-300x148.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 484px) 85vw, 484px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As per l&#8217;<em>Orient Today<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3Evxbou\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3Evxbou<\/a>), &#8220;<em>Lebanese composer Romeo Lahoud passes away aged 92. The author-composer created dozens of shows, presented at prestigious festivals around the world<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From L&#8217;<em>Orient Today<\/em>, we also learn that Mr. &#8220;<em>Lahoud was behind dozens of musical theater shows that were presented in  prestigious festivals around the world, including Baalbeck, Jarash  (Jordan) and Jbeil (which he had contributed to creating in 1997), as  well as at the Imperial Opera in Tehran, at L&#8217;Olympia in Paris and the  Palais Royal des Beaux-Arts in Brussels<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bambi will always remember his Lebanese adaptation of &#8220;<em>My Fair Lady&#8221;<\/em> [in Arabic &#8220;<em>Bint El Jabal<\/em> &#8220;] and, of course, one her favourite love songs, entitled &#8220;<em>Khidni maak<\/em>&#8221; [&#8220;<em>Take me with you<\/em>&#8220;]. She celebrated this melody on her blog in two earlier posts, shown at the end of this one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May your memory be eternal, Mr. Romeo Lahoud. Thank you for having enriched Lebanon. If she may, Bambi would like to offer her condolences to your family, friends, and fans, including your niece, Ms. Aline Lahoud. The song mentioned above and shared below was originally written\/composed by her uncle to her late and great mother, Ms. Salwa El Katrib. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Salwa Al Katrib \u2013 Khedni Maak | Aline Lahoud | The Voice France 2014 | Blind Audition\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fp_JAVIGCkc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-bambi-039-s-afkar\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"ufMcVN8kbr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2022\/05\/07\/beautiful-songs-outlive-singers\/\">Beautiful songs outlive singers<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Beautiful songs outlive singers&#8221; &#8212; Bambi&#039;s Afkar\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2022\/05\/07\/beautiful-songs-outlive-singers\/embed\/#?secret=ufMcVN8kbr\" data-secret=\"ufMcVN8kbr\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-bambi-039-s-afkar\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"IIzOOcXqke\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2022\/08\/26\/mr-marwan-khoury-singing-khidni-maak-take-me-with-you-of-ms-salwa-el-katrib\/\">Mr. Marwan Khoury singing &#8220;Khidni Maak&#8221; [Take me with you] of Ms. Salwa El Katrib<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Mr. Marwan Khoury singing &#8220;Khidni Maak&#8221; [Take me with you] of Ms. Salwa El Katrib&#8221; &#8212; Bambi&#039;s Afkar\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2022\/08\/26\/mr-marwan-khoury-singing-khidni-maak-take-me-with-you-of-ms-salwa-el-katrib\/embed\/#?secret=IIzOOcXqke\" data-secret=\"IIzOOcXqke\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/heart-25.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22662\" width=\"178\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/heart-25.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/heart-25-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 178px) 85vw, 178px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As per l&#8217;Orient Today (https:\/\/bit.ly\/3Evxbou), &#8220;Lebanese composer Romeo Lahoud passes away aged 92. The author-composer created dozens of shows, presented at prestigious festivals around the world&#8220;. From L&#8217;Orient Today, we also learn that Mr. &#8220;Lahoud [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22661"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22661"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22665,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22661\/revisions\/22665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}