Sheikh Ahmed Zaitouni still laughs when he recalls his first attempts to play music: “My brother played a sort of two-stringed instrument we call a gimbri,” he says, speaking through a translator from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. OMER AVITAL: I compose and orchestrate at home; it can take weeks or months, depending on the length of the pieces. (photo credit: ...

Israeli pianist & composer Avishai Darash has always made a deliberate effort to combine his Middle Eastern heritage with Western influences. He considers Andalusian music to be the origin and core of ...

By the 1910s, Igor Stravinsky had established himself as the legendary composer of Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. The ...

An Israeli orchestra performed in a Dec. 4 festival in Morocco despite pressure from boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) activists in the country. The Times of Israel (TOI) reported on Dec. 17 ...

Bowing to pressure from religious subscribers, the Ashdod-based Israel Andalusian Orchestra has removed a concert from its subscription series featuring a female singer. In an announcement to ...

I'll be honest: I went along to hear the authentic sets of Arab-Andalusian music which spread outwards from the courts of Seville (to Tunisia), Cordoba (to Algeria) and Granada (to Morocco). I wasn't ...

Morocco's National Day will be celebrated with an extraordinary Andalusian music concert on July 30 at the Bucharest National Opera (ONB). According to a press release the ONB sent to AGERPRES on ...

Israeli pianist & composer Avishai Darash has always made a deliberate effort to combine his Middle Eastern heritage with Western influences. He considers Andalusian music to be the origin and core of ...