Why do I Love Music but Cannot Stand Jazz?
(Try these 10 Masterpieces and you’ll be converted)
Date: Monday 18 August 2025
Time: 6:45 pm meeting begins and 7:00 pm talk starts
(Beirut Time GMT+3)
Speaker: Akram Najjar
language: English
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The Talk
If you like Jazz, you will enjoy these 10 hidden and not commonly known pearls.
If like many, Jazz for you is noisy, difficult or inaccessible, you will also like these pearls since they will hold your hand as you enter this musical heaven.
The talk will introduce many works that should be placed at the top of the masterpiece ladder. Yet, for some weird reason, they are not well known.
Unusually, Akram will not go into detailed analysis. Rather, he will introduce each song, its composer, its performer and what makes it the pearl that it is. Sometimes, stories behind the works will make them more interesting.
Here are the 10 songs (with 2 other surprises to start with):
A graduate of AUB in Physics and Mathematics (1966). By 1969, he completed a degree in Electronic Engineering in University of Hertfordshire, UK. His professional life was spent in Information Technology and organizational management. He spent a lot of time on reengineering business and public sector processes.
When Akram was 11, he had a problem with his knee which necessitated his staying in bed for 6 months. To keep him busy, his mother moved their record player to his room and that is when he fell in love with classical music. Akram never studied music, academically. However, it interested him so much that he took an analytic view of classical music always insisting that works must be understood to be really appreciated.
