Geneva, 31 March 2008 – Musicians from Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan supported by the Aga Khan Music Initiative in Central Asia will be performing at the Louvre Auditorium on the 5, 6 and 13th of April.
Spiritual music from Azerbaijan will be performed by the world-renowned Alim and Fargana Qasimov on Saturday, 5 April 2008 at 2030, in the Louvre’s Auditorium. Music rooted in the nomadic traditions of the Tien Shan (“Celestial Mountains”) of the Kyrgyz Republic will be performed by Tengir-Too on Sunday, 6 April 2008 at 1730, in the Auditorium. Dushanbe-based Academy of Maqâm will perform traditional instrumental pieces, lyrical songs and contemplative poetry that are bound together in a vast, yet integrated artistic conception of great refinement and beauty. They will perform on Sunday, 13 April at 1700, also in the Auditorium.
More at the source: AKDN
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