[Unedited] Mohammed Fairouz with Krista Tippett

This unedited conversation with composer Mohammed Fairouz comes from the produced show "The World in Counterpoint." He’s been called a post-millennial Schubert. While still in his 20s, Mohammed Fairouz has composed four symphonies and an opera. He invokes John F. Kennedy and Anwar Sadat, Seamus Heaney and Yehuda Amichai in his compositions — seeing "illustrious language" as a form of music and as a way, just maybe, to shift the world on its axis. See more at www.onbeing.org/program/mohammed-fairouz-the-world-in-counterpoint/7511