Andalusian Music "Andalusian music" refers to art music in the Arab world. It is the musical and poetic traditions from Medieval Andalusia that have
been preserved and developed in North Africa by the descendants of Muslim and Jewish refugees after the Reconquista.
It is performed in the form of vocal and instrumental suites based on ancient poems of love, pleasure, wine and nature.
Orchestra of Tetouan on zither, rebab, lute, violin, viola, tambourine & goblet drum Photo: Sarah Skinner
2009-2010 Season
Orchestra of Tetouan (Morocco) – September 18-26, 2009
(New York, Boston, Chicago, Madison, WI & Bloomington, IN)
The orchestra was featured on WNYC & Africa Channel.
Photo: Kazko Kawai
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2008-2009 Season Andalusian Music Festival – February 7-22, 2009 featuring Orchestra Otmani of Fes (Morocco) February 7-14, 2009 (SF, LA, Boston & NY)
Orchestra Otmani of Fes with Marouane Hajji
February 7, 2009 at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, San Francisco
Orchestra of Tangier (Morocco) & Lotfi Bouchnak Ensemble (Tunisia) – Joint Concert February 17-22, 2009 (Atlanta, DC, Boston & New York)
Orchestra of Tangier with Ahmed Marbouh
Nawbat Hijaz al-Kabir
February 21, 2009 at Merkin Concert Hall, New York
Tangier Ensemble (Morocco) September 24-28, 2008 (DC, Atlanta, Boston & New York)
Encore with Rabbi Haim Louk
September 28 at Merkin Concert Hall, New York
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2007-2008 Season Nassima of Algeria October 12, 2007 – New York
Photo: Courtesy of Artist
October 12, 2007 at Symphony Space, New York
Co-presented by World Music Institute Click here for more information
Orchestra of Tangier (Morocco) September 2007 (New York, Boston, Chicago & LA)
September 14, 2007 at CUNY Graduate Center, New York
Nawbat Ouchchaq
Click here to read a preview by Los Angeles Times
http://articles.latimes.com/2007/sep/07/entertainment/et-tangier7
Photo: Rachid Dfouf of Tangier Click here for more on this tour
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2006-2007 Season Orchestra Abdelkrim Rais of Fes (Morocco) September 30, 2006 at Cooper Union, New York
Nawbat Hijaz al-Kabir
This is the first presentation of MENA Music. Almost all audience members were Moroccan people with a very few American people in the auditorium.
Daoudi (Moroccan Chaabi) – Aprll 1, 2007 at Symphony Space, New York
Photo: Courtesy of Artist Click here for more on this concert
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