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World Music Institute - WMI Plus at Home
World Music Institute
Frequency: 1 episode/61d. Total Eps: 24
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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Multi-Instrumentalist Jen Shyu with Rachel Cooper
samedi 7 décembre 2024 • Duration 01:03:56
Jen Shyu is a versatile composer, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist. Born in Peoria, Illinois to Taiwanese and East Timorese immigrant parents, her instruments include piano, violin, Taiwanese moon lute, Chinese erhu, Japanese biwa, and Korean gayageum. For this WMI Plus At Home, she was joined by Rachel Cooper, Director of Performing Arts and Culture as Diplomacy Initiatives at the Asia Society, as the two mapped Jen’s journey through music.
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Hurdy-Gurdy Player Ariel Ninas and Devon Léger
vendredi 4 octobre 2024 • Duration 01:04:13
Ariel Ninas has been playing the hurdy-gurdy since 2001, incorporating a unique style based on traditional Galician music. His work blends elements of contemporary avant-garde aesthetics, including electronic, droning, and free improvisation. Here he demonstrates the medieval instrument, shares music, and chats with journalist and fellow hurdy-gurdy enthusiast Devon Léger.
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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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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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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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Lokua Kanza with Banning Eyre (Afropop Wordwide)
Season 1 · Episode 8
vendredi 1 avril 2022 • Duration 01:00:31
Composer, multi-instrumentalist, and vocalist Lokua Kanza sat down with Banning Eyre (Afropop Worldwide, NPR) to share music and talk about his work as a UNICEF ambassador, developing his unique musical style mixing his conservatory training with Congolese rumba, and the process of recording his first album in 11 years entitled Moko, meaning “one” in Lingala, which involved 100 musicians and 20 recording studios across 12 countries on 5 continents.
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Irish American Violinist Eileen Ivers with Paul Keating
Season 1 · Episode 7
mardi 1 mars 2022 • Duration 59:45
Grammy Award winner Eileen Ivers, hailed “the Jimi Hendrix of the violin” by The New York Times, shares tunes and chats with Irish Voice columnist Paul Keating about her musical training and upbringing in The Bronx (“the 33rd county of Ireland”), her memories of visiting and playing in Ireland, her experience touring with Riverdance, and the challenges of innovating while honoring musical traditions.
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Tabla Virtuoso Zakir Hussain with Radio Host David Ellenbogen
Season 1 · Episode 6
mardi 1 février 2022 • Duration 01:01:04
World renowned Grammy Award-winning tabla artist, composer, and music producer Zakir Hussain shares stories from his life and career beginning with his father, tabla legend Allah Rakha, the genesis of prolific collaborations with artists including Mickey Hart, George Harrison, and John McLaughlin, and the importance of always staying a student. With David Ellenbogen, artist and radio host at WKCR.
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Ravi Shankar and Allah Rakha at Monterey Pop Festival
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Afro-Cuban Jazz Vocalist Daymé Arocena with Writer Ned Sublette
Season 1 · Episode 5
dimanche 5 décembre 2021 • Duration 01:00:44
With her captivating charisma and radiant spirit, Daymé Arocena effortlessly blends traditional Santerían chant, jazz stylings, contemporary R&B influences, and Afro-Cuban rhythmic complexity for audiences worldwide. For this At Home session, Daymé caught up with award-winning music writer Ned Sublette where she spoke about the challenges of learning folk music in Cuba, the inspiration for her hit "La Rumba Me Llamo Yo", her musical influences, and getting an unexpected call from the legendary Cuban composer and performer Marta Valdés.
More about Daymé Arocena: daymearocena.com
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