David Dalle
Thursday April 23rd, 2015 with David Dalle
Armenian, Syrian, Iraqi music including an extremely rare recording of the Armenian community in Aleppo, Syria.

Music can illuminate the enormous and tragic contradiction which lies at the heart of humanity as well as its extreme fragility, as today’s show features some music of extraordinary beauty and profound contemplation inhabiting the same soil as one of the most vicious and cruel contemporary wars—in Syria and Iraq. Music is the very best of humanity, our very souls made audible yet freely shared. We hear the genius Munir Bashir, his improvisations on the Oud occupy the same rarefied sphere as Bach’s cello suites; an extremely rare recording of liturgical chants from the Armenian community in Aleppo, Syria, recordings made in 2010 just before Syria was engulfed by the horrific war which threatens the rich plurality and culture of this ancient region with extinction; the dramatic and emotional worlds of Iraqi singer Hussein Al A’Dhami and Syrian singer Sabri Moudallal.