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Passio-Compassio - J.S. Bach and Sufi Mysticism - Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Ages: All Address: Columbus Ave. btw. 62nd & 65th Sts. - 212-875-5000 www.lincolncenter.org Description: Western and Middle Eastern musicians come together with the music of Bach in this rapturous close to the second White Light Festival. Ensemble Sarband, a group long dedicated to musically bridging East and West, joins a choir, saxophonists, and a string quartet in Arabic and jazz arrangements of Bach's Passions, combining them with early Christian chant. This extraordinary cultural cooperation is framed by the meditative dance ritual of Sufi whirling dervishes from Turkey's Mevlevi Order. Art transcends hate: passio becomes compassio. |