Fwd: NYC: 6/28 Bukharan music & dance

[Joel Bresler <jbresler...>]

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>Subject: NYC: 6/28 Bukharan music & dance
>Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 21:50:20 -0400
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>CONCERT OF MUSIC AND DANCE FROM UZBEKISTAN
>
>Featuring Bukharan classical and folk traditions and rarely heard
>Bukharan Jewish hymns sung in Hebrew
>
>Wednesday June 28th at 8pm
>JHS 157
>63-55 102nd Street
>Rego Park, Queens, New York
>
>Admission is free
>
>For more information contact Queens Council on the Arts at
>(718)647-3377.
>
>Queens Council on the Arts and the Bukharan Cultural Congress are
>presenting a free program of music and dance performed by Jews of
>Central Asia who now live in Queens. Instruments to be played include
>two kinds of lute, tar and rabob, and a frame drum, called doira.  The
>singing style is highly ornamented.  Many of the Jewish songs are
>texts known to Jews around the world which are sung to Bukharan
>melodies;
>other hymns incorporate Bukharan texts and melodies.  Musicians
>include Ilyas Malayev and the Maqom ensemble.
>The dance style involves subtle foot movements, twirling, graceful
>hand
>motions, and facial expressions that convey the joy taken in the
>music.
>
>In ancient and medieval times, Jews from Persia (Iran) and Mesopotamia
>migrated to the city of Bukhara in Central Asia's Uzbekistan where
>some
>became the court musicians for Muslim emirs.  Today there is a
>sizeable
>Bukharan Jewish community in New York centered in Forest Hills and
>Rego
>Park.  The Bukharan Jewish community in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan is
>very small.  Some members of the community left in the 1970s, and in
>the 1990s most of the community relocated to Israel and New York.  The
>current status of the native communities of this immigrant group makes
>cultural continuity in this country particularly important.
>
>



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