January 21, 2007

Al'ud and al tarab

I went to a fantastic concert on friday night. It was oud virtuoso and composer Marcel Khalifé -- from Lebanon -- playing his "concerto al andalus" with the Gradus Ad Musicam symphonic orchestra. His son Rami -- a pianist who graduated from Julliard in 2003 -- also played. It was magical! Marcel ended with one of his ballads, and in the audience the arab speakers who knew it (it seems they all did) sang along.
Oriental music really is something I have to explore.

2 comments:

Matt said...

While I don't know much about music east of Berlin, I did hear an excellent album by the group Ghazal, called Moon Rise over the Silk Road that you might want to check out. It's pretty good stuff!

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