As you can well imagine, Kazakhstan didn't really care for the Sacha Baron Cohen movie "Borat" - and they particularly didn't like the made-up national anthem (choice lyric: "Kazakhstan's prostitutes, cleanest in the region, except of course for Turkmenistan's") written by Cohen's brother, Erran Baron Cohen.
So it was something of a surprise to the composer when Kazakh and violin virtuoso Marat Bisengaliev called him up to commission a Kazakh Symphony. The final work went over well in England...and less well in Kazahstan.
You can watch a clip and hear an excerpt, courtesy of PBS' program Sound Tracks: Music Without Borders.
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