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2022-05-19 08:09:16
There haven’t been a lot of jazz triplebills in New York this year, unless you count the option of spending from early evening to the wee hours at Smalls. A much more briskly paced, enticing jazz triplebill is happening this May 21 at 6:30 PM at Drom, where the duo of Greek vibraphonist Christos Rafalides […]
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2021-02-19 21:30:00
When Anthony Haden-Guest Met The Christos
It was during the Running Fence project that Christo and Jeanne-Claude took me to meet the Charles Schulz, the late creator of Peanuts, who had a home in the county capital, Santa Rosa. We had coffee in Snoopy mugs and wiped our lips on Charlie Brown and Lucy napkins. This was before the explosion of branding, he was just fond […]
2018-04-11 08:22:00
In paradise there is no idle chatter
There may well be life after social media, because the Quran (19:62) tells us that "In paradise there is no idle chatter but only the invocation of peace". If indeed there is a paradise, perhaps the only sound there is the reed flute. Mevlânâ Rumi's epic poem Masnavi begins with the distich "Listen to this reed flute, how wistfully it is singing! About separation it is complaining". In his poetry Rumi uses the ney - a reed flute - as a metaphor for the human race which since time immemorial has suffered from the separation caused by the egocentric human condition. That photo shows leading ney exponent, flautist extraordinaire and composer Christos Barbas. He was born in 1980 in Thessaloniki, Greece; after studying musicology and ethnomusicology at the University of Aristotelio (Thessaloniki) and the School of Oriental and Asian Studies (London) he was taught by the renowned ney master Omer Erdoğdular, […]
2016-03-29 12:00:50
[…] 125 years ago. “An excerpt from Larysa’s Kuzmenko’s recently premiered Golden Harvest (with Russell Braun and Monica Whicher and the Ewashko singers) will recount aspects of this story, while all the other music on the program celebrates the beauty and range of music created or inspired by Ukrainians. We’ll also be featuring the Vesnivka Ukrainian Women’s choir, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.” Back this year is a performance of the work Constantinople by Christos Hatzis. The 75-minute theatrical work explores the parallels and tensions that exist between Christianity and Islam. The piece was performed in its original format in Ottawa in 2010. Chamberfest’s musical heart is found in its concentration on the works of a composer. This year, Borys says, it’s called the Three Pillars of Bach: cello suites, Bach’s musical offering, and the B minor mass, plus a couple of lectures and a film documentary. Music festivals […]
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