World Music News
LA Phil Presents - World Music Series
The LA Philharmonic Orchestra is performing a series of concerts at
the Walt Disney Concert Hall - February 21, March 7, April 27 and May
3. These concerts feature some well known and exceptionally fine musicians
who are bound to bring some great World Music to the concert-going audience.
Don't miss performances by The Chieftains, Eva Ayllón, Asha Bhosle and
the Kronos Quartet in the world-renowned Walt Disney Concert Hall, providing
both visual and aural intimacy for an unparalleled musical experience.
 The Chieftains
Thursday, February 21, 8:00 PM
Walt Disney Concert Hall
The Emerald Isle's most famous traditional Irish group debuts at Walt
Disney Concert Hall, playing jigs, reels and other Gaelic music favorites
with "natural lilt and abandon."
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 Eva Ayllón
Friday, March 7, 2008, 8:00 PM
Walt Disney Concert Hall
One of Peru's most compelling and lively Afro-Peruvian stars, aka the "Queen
of Landó", Ayllón blends African and Spanish cultures - dramatic
flamenco phrases, complex, pulsating rhythms and sweet folkloric melodies
- into her signature style of music known as "musica criolla".
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 Asha Bhosle
Sunday, April 27, 2008, 7:30 PM
Walt Disney Concert Hall
Bollywood playback singer Asha Bhosle has a career that has spanned
over six decades. Considered a living legend and one of the most versatile
of all South Asian singers, she is believed to have performed over 12,000
songs.
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 Kronos Quartet: 'Nunavut'
Tanya Tagaq, special guest
Saturday, May 3, 2008, 8:00 PM
Walt Disney Concert Hall
Kronos Quartet and Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq, championed by Björk,
present a spectacular collaboration, 'Nunavut,' and a world premiere
by composer Derek Charke. The Quartet also explores music by Icelandic
band Sigur Rós and Xploding Plastix.
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The New Moon Rises: A Lunar New Year Music Festival
Thursday, February 7 to Sunday, February 10
Four Days of Pan-Asian Music to Celebrate the Lunar New Year
The Year of the Rat starts on Thursday, February 7, and WNYC will ring
it in starting midnight with The New Moon Rises: A Lunar New Year Music
Festival, a presentation of traditional, contemporary, classical and
pop Asian and Asian-influenced music.
An exceptional opportunity to learn about seldom-heard instruments,
artists, and arrangements (at least in this hemisphere), spanning centuries
of musical history to today, WNYC’s Lunar New Year Festival will
offer music from Tibet, Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam and China over four
days of new, recent and archival programming on WNYC2, available at www.wnyc.org.
WNYC2 kicks of the festival at 12am on February 7 with 24 hours of uninterrupted
music from the celebrating nations. The party continues with two hour
blocks of programming on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, individually spotlighting
each nation with music and commentary.
Find out more about The
New Moon Rises: A Lunar New Year Music Festival at the WNYC2 Website. |
