This SPARKS Exchange will feature a brief exposition of maqām (Middle Eastern modal) music focusing on Tanburi Cemil Bey’s “Hicazkâr Saz Semai” as a template for appreciation of the unique process of modulation that is prevalent in Middle Eastern music. Abdessamad Mason Zantow will present on the lâvta (Istanbul lute), an instrument played by Tanburi Cemil Bey and a cousin of the oud and modern guitar.
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Featuring
Abdessamad Mason Zantow
Abdessamad Mason Zantow is a performer on the oud, lâvta (Istanbul lute) and buzuq (Arab bouzouki) as well as a singer of Muwashshah (Arabo-Andalusian secular and Sufi love poetry) and Turkish ilahi (Sufi songs) and other works from the Ottoman classical tradition. After forming several musical projects spanning from popular genres to the avant-garde, he eventually traveled to Varanasi, India where he studied Hindustani classical music and Qawwali. He has a BA in Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin. He has had many formative music teachers including his late Uncle Thomas Zantow, Eric Ederer, Evgenios Voulgaris and most recently Ustadh Khaled Alhafez who is a master performer of the Muwashshah from Aleppo, Syria.
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