Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr. Mustafa Said is stripping Arab classical music down to its essentials in his Heart to Heart concert series in Qatar. (All ...

Ali Paris, voice and qanun, Faisal Zedan, percussion. Moroccan Gnawa, Egyptian Samai, Syrian Longas – musical forms rarely heard in the West, yet beloved by millions of people across Northern Africa ...

WholeTone Music Academy will host a Classical Arabic Concert and Brunch at Connexion, Somerville. Classical Arabic Takht ensemble will be paired with traditional foods and dance. The event is on ...

Listen carefully in Lebanon, and you may grasp the strains of classical Arab music breaking out of the oblivion to which it has been confined for decades. Atop a mountain switchback leading to the ...

DAMASCUS (Reuters Life!) - Centuries ago, Arab servant girls would serenade the caliph or ruler, a tradition that Syria's only all-woman classical Arab music band is reviving in modern form -- without ...

CNN’s Becky Anderson goes on an Arabic classical musical journey with Syrian-American composer Faraj Abyad, who is performing with the Athar Orchestra, commissioned by the Abu Dhabi Festival, in an ...

Sometimes a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down; sometimes the sugar can taste like medicine. When Palestinian violin and oud master Simon Shaheen attempts to make Arabic classical music more ...

The musicians were the German Debussy Trio The musicians concluded their encores in Jeddah with upbeat classical versions of the German and Saudi national anthems ...