Date: February 28, 2008 (Saturday)Time: 6:00-7:00 P.M.
Place: Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center, 2700 F ST NW, Washington, DC
Tickets: free and open to the public on a first-come first-serve basis
Video:
Kennedy Center
2009/02/28
ARABESQUE: Nawal
Date: February 28, 2008 (Saturday)Time: 6:00-7:00 P.M.
Place: Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center, 2700 F ST NW, Washington, DC
Tickets: free and open to the public on a first-come first-serve basis
Video:
Kennedy Center
2009/02/27
ARABESQUE: K'naan
Date: February 27, 2008 (Friday)
Time: 6:00-7:00 P.M.
Place: Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center, 2700 F ST NW, Washington, DC
Tickets: free and open to the public on a first-come first-serve basis
Video:
Kennedy Center
2009/02/26
ARABESQUE: Amine & Hamza
Date: February 26, 2008 (Thursday)
Time: 6:00-7:00 P.M.
Place: Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center, 2700 F ST NW, Washington, DC
Tickets: free and open to the public on a first-come first-serve basis
Video:
Kennedy Center
Sponsors:
Embassy of the Kingdom of Morocco
Georgetown University: A. J. Racy - Art & Ecstasy in Arab Music
Date: February 26, 2009 (Thursday)Time: 6:00 P.M.
Place: ICC Auditorium at Georgetown University
Tickets: free and open to the public via online reservation
A. J. Racy will give the 2009 Kareema Khoury Annual Distinguished Lecture on "Art and Ecstasy in Arab Music," followed by a book signing and reception. Dr. Racy is a performer, composer, and professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of California at Los Angeles. Born in Lebanon, he comes from a well-known family of artists, scholars, and academicians. Racy is internationally recognized for his extraordinary musicianship and his numerous publications, including his award-winning book, Making Music in the Arab World: The Culture and Artistry of Tarab (Cambridge University Press, 2003). He is a master of many traditional instruments, particularly the nay (reed-flute) and buzuq (long-necked, fretted lute). He has performed extensively in Lebanon and has appeared in major U.S. theaters, such as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and the Hollywood Bowl and at international venues, including the Beiteddine Festival in Lebanon and the Commonwealth Institute in London. He has composed and performed for the Kronos Quartet and the Sacramento Symphony Orchestra, as well as for feature and documentary films. His music has been released on a number of CDs, including three Lyrichord albums, Ancient Egypt, Taqasim, and Mystical Legacies, and on a Kronos Quartet release titled Caravan. Dr. Racy is the recipient of numerous honors and tributes from a variety of cultural institutions for his outstanding artistry and his continuous work toward greater intercultural understanding and cooperation.
Sponsors: CCAS
2009/02/25
T. C. Williams HS: Kamkars
Date: March 7, 2009 (Saturday)Time: 8:15 P.M.
Place: John C. Albohm Auditorium of T. C. Williams High School (directions)
Tickets: $35, 45, 55 - call (703) 517-4343
The Kamkars began in Sanandaj in 1965 as a family band. Headed by Master Hassan Kamkar (violinist), it comprised Houshang (accordionist), Bijan (singer), Pashang (dulcimer), Ghashang (violinist and singer) and Arzhang (drum). Performances extended Iran into the Kurdistan and Azerbaijan provinces. By 1971, family started going to Tehran to study in the Faculty of Fine Arts. They performance with singers Shajarian and Nazeri. More and moer Kamkar children have joined over the years. Recent concerts have included WOMAD and Summer Stage and many European venues. The Kamkars have performed in Kurdish Iraq and, in 2001, for the first time in modern Turkish history, they performed Kurdish music in the cities of Istanbul and Diarbekr. In 1997, the band founded Kamkars Open Music Institute in Tehran.
Audio:
Che Danestam (MP3 sample)
Kani Sepi (MP3 sample)
Freer Gallery: Hafiz in the West
Date: February 25, 2009 (Wednesday)
Time: 7:30 P.M.
Place: Meyer Auditorium of the Freer Gallery (directions)
Tickets: Free tickets required and available online
The Freer Gallery's "After Five Performances" offer a concert after an introductory tour to its new "Arts of the Islamic World" exhibition: "Hafiz in the West." In 1812 the translation into German of poems by the 14th-century Persian mystic Hafiz (also translated "Hafez") sparked a wave of interest among poets and composers throughout the West. Martin Bruns, one of Europe's most versatile vocalists, lends his operatic baritone to songs inspired by Hafiz's haunting intimate poetry. This recital of works by Schubert, Brahms, Hugo Wolf, Adolf Jensen, and Viktor Ullmann provides unique insights into the influence of Hafiz's Persian poetry on European composers centuries later. Accompanied by Jan Philip Schulze on piano.
ARABESQUE: Chabab Al Andalous Rabat Orchestra with Mohammed Bajeddoub and Bahae Ronda
Date: February 25, 2009 (Wednesday)Time: 6:00-7:00 P.M.
Place: Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center, 2700 F ST NW, Washington, DC
Tickets: free and open to the public on a first-come first-serve basis
Video:
Kennedy Center
Sponsors:
Embassy of the Kingdom of Morocco
2009/02/24
ARABESQUE: Al-Farah Choir (Joqat al-Farah)
Date: February 24, 2009 (Tuesday)
Time: 6:00-7:00 P.M.
Place: Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center, 2700 F ST NW, Washington, DC
Tickets: free and open to the public on a first-come first-serve basis
Video:
video
News:
PBS News Hour
Hometown Annapolis
Choir of Joy blog
Sponsors:
Embassy of the Syrian Arab Republic
2009/02/23
ARABESQUE: Oud Knights with Amina & Shayma
Date: February 23, 2009 (Monday)Time: 6:00-7:00 P.M.
Place: Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center, 2700 F ST NW, Washington, DC
Tickets: free and open to the public on a first-come first-serve basis
Video:
Kennedy Center
Sponsors:
Embassy of the Kingdom of Bahrain
2009/02/20
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Strathmore: Andalusian Music Festival
Date: February 18, 2009 (Saturday)
Time: 8:00 P.M.
Place: Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman LN, N Bethesda, MD 20852(directions)
Tickets: $85-25, online with Strathmore
Andalusian music is a musical and poetic tradition from Medieval Andalusia that has been preserved in North Africa since the Reconquista.
This concert features luminaries of classical Andalusian music. The critically acclaimed Orchestra of Tangier performs the lovely vocal and instrumental suite "Hijaz al-Kabir," led by Ahmed Zaitouni, widely considered the last of the living legends of Andalusian music in Morocco.
The Tunisian singer Lotfi Bouchnak, one of the greatest Arab musicians of all time, performs "Malouf" from Tunisia and "Wasla" from Egypt with his ensemble.
The 22-year-old vocal virtuoso Marouan Hajji from Fes opens the concert with a Sufi song.
Producer: MENA Music
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Millennium Stage: Lena Seikaly
Date: February 10, 2008 (Tuesday)
Time: 6:00 P.M.
Place: Millennium Stage (directions)
Tickets: free and open to the public on a first-come first-serve basis
Lena Seikaly, a jazz and classical vocalist from Washington, DC, kicks off her 2009 Betty Carter Jazz Ahead residency at the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts with a performance on the Millennium Stage.
(Click here to see and hear the performance)
2009/02/08
Washington Post: Arabesque Fest's Temperament
The Washington Post notes "one small spot of consciousness-raising" in the Kennedy Center's fast-approaching Arabesque Festival: Egyptian dancer Karima Mansour's "Temporament"... (read more)
2009/02/07
Freer/Sackler: Amir ElSaffar
Date: February 7, 2009 (Saturday)Time: 6:45-9:30 P.M.
Place: Meyer Auditorium at the Smithsonian Institution's Freer/Sackler Galleries of Art
Tickets: free tickets required, available via Ticketmaster at (202) 397-7328, (410) 547-7328, or (703) 573-7328, or online at ticketmaster.com, or Ticketmaster walk-up locations
A pre-concert gallery tour of "Arts of the Islamic World" opens at 6:45 P.M. to kick off Amir ElSaffar's electric, original work. "Two Rivers" finds inspiration in the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the composer's Iraqi and American heritage, and the common ground between American jazz and Iraqi classical music.
Performers:
- Amir ElSaffar: trumpet, santur
- Rudresh Mahanthappa: saxophone
- Nasheet Waits: drums
- Carlo DeRosa: bass
- Zaafir Tawil: oud, violin, dumbek
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