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In Silent City, a hypnotic work commemorating Halabjah, a Kurdish village annihilated by Saddam Hussein, the kamancheh, an upright four-stringed Persian fiddle, breaks out in a lamenting wail based on a traditional Turkish melody. "Silent City" is included on a new disc of the same name on the World Village label, which Kayhan Kalhor, a virtuoso kamancheh player, recorded with the young string quartet Brooklyn Rider...
Multiple music arts grant-award winner Alexandra "Olenka" Gadzik emigrated from the Carpathian Mountains of Poland with her parents and sister in 1977. Growing up in multi-cultural New York City nurtured in her a love and affinity for world music. Now with Olenka's second fully orchestrated release, Rhythms of Another Life, her world fusion rhythms and spiraling Euro-fringe melodies, sing the stories of women, foreigners, and belonging in a global culture. The CD is receiving heavy airplay on radio and is now available at olenka.com, CD Baby and iTunes. Olenka blends funky ethnic grooves and instruments with jazz-caliber musicianship, poetic lyrics, and a pop-friendly sound. Her passion for integrating world music with state-of-the-art production is long standing. In 1989 she collaborated with Peruvian buskers, or street musicians, in New York City on her worldbeat song "Cold Faith". It featured the Peruvian zampona (panpipe) player Ricardo Silva, orchestrated with the recently invented Chapman Stick guitar/bass. That same year "Cold Faith" appeared on the compilation of New York bands entitled Fresh Kills and it now appears on Olenka's debut CD Making Arrows...
STOCKHOLM (AFP) -- US soprano Renee Fleming and British rock group Pink Floyd received the Polar Music Prize from the hands of Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf at a gala ceremony in Stockholm on Tuesday, organisers said. The winners received one million kronor (106,700 euros, 156,385 dollars) each. The Royal Swedish Academy of Music honoured Fleming "in recognition of her sublime unparalleled voice and unique stylistic versatility...
JAZZ FESTIVAL AMONG PROGRAMS HE DEVELOPED Henry Schiro's mark on San Jose's music scene is everywhere. He developed the San Jose Jazz Festival into the largest free jazz series in the country. He supported, and personally bailed out, the famed Children's Musical Theater San Jose. He brought Broadway shows to town, created a Christmas music series at St. Joseph Cathedral and started music programs in downtown schools...
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