CARNEGIE HALL PRESENTS
Performance
Tuesday, Apr 12, 2011 | 7 PM
Neighborhood Concert: New York Arabic Orchestra, featuring Bassam Saba
The Schomberg Center
On Muslim World Music Day, audiences around the globe embrace the diversity and beauty of music, art, and literature of the Islamic tradition. Bassam Saba and the 30-member New York Arabic Orchestra bring the celebration to Harlem with classical Arab-Andalusian vocal and instrumental repertoire on featured traditional instruments, including the oud (Arabic lute) and nay (Arabic reed flute)