Nearer to East: Contemporary Chamber Music From The Arab World & Beyond

Music by Karim Al-Zand, Kinan Azmeh, Bushra El-Turk, Mohammed Fairouz, Zaid Jabri & Kareem Roustom
Lunatics at Large, the renowned new music ensemble, will explore music by composers who live and work in the U.S.A. and Europe but have strong ties to the Arab world. Avoiding exotic and orientalist cliches, this thoughtful program brings together a collection of passionate, eloquent, and bold works by a group of composers whose music both reflects the past and speaks in the idioms of the present.