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Travel Pick: Pop Culture and Cinema in United StatesMusic from Medieval Andalusia
Music from Medieval Andalusia
UNITED STATESBOSTON
• First Church in Cambridge
• 23 September 2009
Music from Medieval AndalusiaOrchestra of TetouanMehdi Chaachooa, directorAndalusian Music is the musical and poetic traditions from Medieval Andalusia that have been preserved in North Africa by the descendants of Muslim and Jewish refugees since the Reconquista. It is performed in the form of vocal and instrumental suites called Nawbaat or Noubas, based on ancient poems of love, pleasure, wine and nature.
Led by Mehdi Chaachooa, the Orchestra of Tetouan visits from Morocco with seven master musicians on rebab (2-stringed bass), oud (lute), violin, viola, qanun (zither), tar (tambourine) and darbouka (metal gobet drum), making the US debut on this national tour.
Members of the orchestra are the direct descendants of refugees from Granada, Andalusia, keeping this centuries-old musical and poetic traditions alive today.
Founded in Tetouan, Morocco in 1944 by the city's leading musicians, including Larbi al-Gazi, Ahmed Berradi, the Orchestra of Tetouan has performed at the Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA) in Paris, and has represented Morocco to perform Andalusian Music in many international music concerts in Europe.
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