Middle Eastern Music Ensemble hosts Moroccan artists William and Mary News by Staff | March 28, 2012 Since its founding in 1994, the William & Mary Middle Eastern Music Ensemble has hosted multiple guest artists from a variety of traditions. But this semester is the first time that they have hosted...

Not your grandmother's opera Mail Tribune "It didn't feed my Eastern European heritage or my larger thirst for Balkan and Arabic music . So I traveled and did a lot of singing in France, Spain, the UK and Italy." When Stern returned to the United States, he ultimately landed in Portland....

Red Bank Theater Watch: Improv, In This House, Eastern European Music Patch.com Klezmer was originally a Jewish genre of music performed in celebrations that consisted of dance and instrumental tunes. Over the last 100 years or so, the term has grown to include elements of jazz, folk, Turkish and Arabic...

Mostafa, a Syrian engineer now a refugee in Canada, secretly videoed … Toronto Star RELATED: Arab Awakening Amnesty International, like most media and other human rights organizations, has been barred from reporting on the ground in Syria. Tales have trickled out of the country about shell-shocked...

Middle East Online Abu Dhabi Authority for Tourism and Culture inaugurates UAE, Arabian and Gulf … Read the original:  Abu Dhabi Authority for Tourism and Culture inaugurates UAE, Arabian and Gulf … – Middle East Online

Egyptian music historian Antari dies Ahram Online Antari, who was 83, is best-known for his contribution to Egyptian music history in the second half of the twentieth century – championing Eastern ( Arabic ) singing and work by the 1970s oppositional composer Sheikh Imam Issa. Writing in Al- Kawakeb,...

Lewiston Sun Journal BatesDowntown concerts continues with Middle Eastern ensemble Lewiston Sun Journal LEWISTON — The Okbari Middle Eastern Ensemble will bring music from the Turkish, Arabic and Armenian cultures to the BatesDowntown concert series on Friday, March 2. The 5 pm performance at 22 Park...

Times of Oman Rhythm feast at Oud Music Fest in Oman Times of Oman MUSCAT: It was a treat for connoisseurs of music with Eastern, Arabic and classical instruments being played at the Shadw Al Maqam festival organised by the Oud Hobbyists Association. The function began with music accompanied by instruments...

The National The Nour Festival of Contemporary Middle Eastern and North African Arts … The National .. Go here to see the original:  The Nour Festival of Contemporary Middle Eastern and North African Arts … – The National

OregonLive.com Vagabond Opera celebrates Halloween with 5th annual Transylvanian Voodoo Ball OregonLive.com Having learned enough of the formal rules of music to bend or break them at will, the Vagabond Opera traffics in a format informed as equally by klezmer, gypsy jazz, Eastern European folk music...