"The Whirling Dervishes of Damascus" Le Chant du Monde/Harmonia Mundi The Sufi music and dance ensembles that tour the United States usually come from Turkey, one of the principal centers for Mevlevis ...
Their songs are praises to the divine, and so are their dances. They represent a mystical side of Islam that uses music and movement to achieve a state of ecstasy with God and humanity. When the ...
Born in France in 1953, Bernard Weiss studied Western music until his early 20s, when his obsession with Arabic classical music prompted a move to Damascus. Mastering the kanun (a trapezoidal zither), ...
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