Kinan Azmeh plays the clarinet as Kevork does live sketching during their performance in Beirut, Lebanon March 26, 2018. Picture taken March 26, 2018. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir
BEIRUT (Reuters) - One is the grandson of an Armenian troubadour who fled to Syria in 1915. The other is a descendant of a Syrian army chief who died fighting the French in 1920. One hails from Aleppo, the other from Damascus. Both Syrian artists call New York, where they met 17 years ago, home.
For one night on stage in Beirut on Monday, Kevork Mourad's live sketches combined with Kinan Azmeh's clarinet to create a whirlwind of images to mirror the seven years of war that have made their country unrecognizable.
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