The borrowings of the Jews of the Maghreb from the Andalusian music and the qasîdah? The musical styles of the Muslim, and Jewish communities appear to be very colorful and mutually influential, ...

Sheikh Ahmed Zaitouni still laughs when he recalls his first attempts to play music: “My brother played a sort of two-stringed instrument we call a gimbri,” he says, speaking through a translator from ...

The Andalusian Orchestra Ashdod will host jazz pianist Omri Mor with saxophonist Abatte Barihun and a Moroccan vocalist in a month-long concert series. The performance, “From West to East,” will ...

Sitting in a Tel Aviv café over an odd combination of Tuborg beer, sliced watermelon and heavily seasoned green olives, Shmuel Elbaz sips his beer and says: “I like being unique. I like doing ...

Historical memory can linger in music, sometimes for centuries. The Flamenco Festival concert on Saturday night at Town Hall, by the singer Marina Heredia and the Chekara Arab-Andalusian Orchestra of ...

Who: The Al Andalus Ensemble, a Portland-based, internationally-known, world chamber music ensemble that performs music from around the globe from an Andalusian perspective. What: "Legacies: 711-2011, ...

Israeli pianist & composer Avishai Darash has always made a deliberate effort to combine his Middle Eastern heritage with Western influences. He considers Andalusian music to be the origin and core of ...

It’s a sign of the seismic shifts in the Israeli music scene when Ashdod’s Andalusian Orchestra, the award-winning band of musicians that plays traditional Sephardic and Jewish-Arab music, pairs up ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Arabic music in a Jewish temple? Depending on your perspective it could be post-modernism run amok or the dawn of a new Age of Aquarius.

The classical music scene in Dubai and the UAE is becoming more vibrant than ever. But perhaps locally based talents are yet to have fuller access to it. To make up for this, Alliance Française Dubai ...

DOHA: The Cultural Village Foundation – Katara in cooperation with the Algerian Embassy in organised an Andalusian music concert at the Katara Opera House theatre on Tuesday. Several diplomats and ...

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