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World Music Institute - WMI Plus at Home
World Music Institute
Frequency: 1 episode/65d. Total Eps: 27
WMI Plus At Home brings you into the personal environments of renowned artists from around the world as they share stories and music in an intimate conversation with a fellow musician, journalist, or ethnomusicologist.These talks were originally presented as live webinars, and you can watch videos of all of our past At Home sessions on our website and YouTube channel. WMI Plus At Home events are supported by donations from world music lovers like you. We thank you! Podcast artwork courtesy of Cody Hudson - https://www.struggleinc.com
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Arabic Music with Firas Zreik and Ronnie Malley
Season 3 · Episode 3
mardi 6 janvier 2026 • Duration 01:09:57
Artist-composer Firas Zreik and multi-instrumentalist, producer, and educator Ronnie Malley engaged in a dynamic discussion about music, identity, and cultural exchange. Firas, a Palestinian-born kanun player based in NYC, shared insights on the instrument's history, microtonal aspects, and composition. They discussed the maqam system, cross-cultural collaborations, and the evolution of Palestinian music, emphasizing how artists can preserve cultural heritage while integrating modern influences to create music that transcends borders and generations.
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Percussionist and Bandleader Sunny Jain with Samita Sinha
Season 3 · Episode 1
lundi 18 août 2025 • Duration 52:53
Sunny Jain, a Brooklyn-based drummer, dhol player, bandleader, and composer, speaks with artist Samita Sinha in the first WMI Plus At Home session of WMI’s 40th Season. The two friends discussed Sunny’s upcoming WMI Season opening performance at Bryant Park along with Gamelan Dharma Swara, and Sunny’s project Wild Wild East, which explores themes of immigration and identity through a fusion of jazz and Indian music. The conversation highlighted the power of music to bridge cultural divides and build community, as well as Sunny’s collaborations with diverse musicians, and the joy of shared laughter.
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Clarinetist Oran Etkin and Brazilian Pianist Benjamin Taubkin
Season 2 · Episode 5
jeudi 30 novembre 2023 • Duration 54:03
Grammy Award-winning Israeli-born composer, clarinetist, and educator Oran Etkin and Brazilian pianist, arranger, composer, and producer Benjamin Taubkin came together to discuss their passion for and commitment to engaging in a musical dialogue with artists from other cultures to build bridges between people around the globe. They shared music and chatted about working together on Oran's innovative project Open Arms which will be released in January 2024.
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Iranian Composer, Vocalist, and Kamancheh Master Mehrnam Rastegari
Season 2 · Episode 5
mardi 15 août 2023 • Duration 56:13
Mehrnam Rastegari is an award-winning score composer, singer, and master kamancheh player. Originally born in Iran, she now lives in NYC. For this WMI Plus At Home session, she is joined in conversation with her friend and fellow composer and kamancheh player Niloufar Shiri. Mehrnam shares music and the two artists discuss their instruments and personal musical journeys, as well as the challenges facing women musicians in Iran today. Mehrnam also joined us for a FolkTales session.
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Link to FolkTales session "Parinaz and the Golden Lamp"
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Dominican Guitarist Yasser Tejeda with Journalist Ed Morales
Season 2 · Episode 4
vendredi 19 mai 2023 • Duration 56:12
Yasser Tejeda, an award-winning Dominican composer, guitarist, vocalist, and producer, shares music and talks with author and journalist Ed Morales about his third album La Madrugada (Daybreak), the African roots of Dominican traditions, the influences of life in NYC on his music, and the message behind his single "Tu Eres Bonita".
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Brazilian Cellist Dom La Nena with Catalina Maria Johnson
Season 2 · Episode 3
jeudi 4 mai 2023 • Duration 54:01
Multi-lingual composer, vocalist, and cellist Dom La Nena joins journalist Catalina Maria Johnson (Beat Latino) for a special WMI Plus At Home conversation from Dom's home in Paris. She performs songs from her critically-acclaimed solo album Tempo (Six Degrees Records) and shares stories about her unique career path that took her from her home in Brazil to Argentina and France, as well as the distinct melodies of the three languages - Portuguese, Spanish, and French - that she uses in her music.
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WMI Plus At Home experiences are supported by a grant from Con Edison and world music lovers like you. We thank you!
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Silent Tears: The Last Yiddish Tango
Season 2 · Episode 2
jeudi 20 avril 2023 • Duration 54:17
This special WMI Plus At Home Session commemorates Yom HaShoah - Holocaust Remembrance Day. Join members of the Payadora Tango Ensemble and Lenka Lichtenberg with journalist/music producer Dan Rosenberg as they present stories and music from Silent Tears: the Last Yiddish Tango (Six Degrees Records), a project based on poems, testimonies, and writings of women who were subjected to sexual violence and torture during the Holocaust. Some songs are from a project led by Dr. Paula David, a social worker at a Toronto Jewish care home who helped survivors to process their trauma by writing collective poetry. Others are from Molly Applebaum, a Toronto-based author, who, during her adolescent years, was buried underground in a small wooden box in a barn in Poland during the war.
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Changüí - The Music of Guantánamo w/ Arturo O'Farrill and Gianluca Tramontana
Season 2 · Episode 1
mardi 28 mars 2023 • Duration 53:38
Music producer and journalist Gianluca Tramontana joins Grammy Award-winning composer, pianist, educator, and founder of the Afro-Latin Jazz Alliance Arturo O'Farrill, for an exploration of changüí - a rarely documented roots music from the Guantánamo region of Cuba, where Tramontana spent several months capturing the music of the changüiseros. Those recordings have been released in a critically-acclaimed collection on Petaluma Records: https://www.petalumarecords.com
Changüí The Music Of Guantánamo Official Trailer
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Composer, Percussionist, and Author Adam Rudolph with Journalist Piotr Orlav
Season 1 · Episode 10
jeudi 18 août 2022 • Duration 50:34
Adam and journalist Piotr Orlov chat about Adam's many collaborations with artists including Don Cherry, Hassan Hakmoun, Dave Liebman, and Yusuuf Lateef that were part of the WMI legacy series of the late 1980s / early 1990s called 'Improvisations'. At the time of the recording, Adam was in the process of rebooting that influential series for our 2022-2023 Season launch event with SummerStage in Central Park on Sep 10 featuring some of the original artists from the series along with members of the next generation of improvisational artists.
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Tibetan Artist Yungchen Lhamo and Jamshied Sharifi
Season 1 · Episode 9
jeudi 19 mai 2022 • Duration 54:16
Award-winning Tibetan singer/songwriter Yungchen Lhamo joins her friend Tony Award winner and record producer Jamshied Sharifi to share her beautiful voice along with a conversation about her unusual journey from Tibetan to Australia and the US, fulfilling her commitment to serving others through sound healing, and her collaborations with artists including Peter Gabriel, Annie Lennox, Natalie Merchant, and Peter Rowan.
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