Why bellydancers, anyway? (part 3) “confessions of a bellydance musician”
This one is four years coming. I can’t even remember if I ever posted the “part 3″ or not, but was considering blogging about some things relating to being a […]
Category Archives: Origins
Chinese Orchestras in the Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area is a Metropolitan region encompassing San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose as well as a number of surrounding cities and ‘burbs. With a population approaching […]
Kayhan Kalhor and the Persian kamancheh at Tully Scope
Yeah, I know–technically it’s Brooklyn Rider and Kayhan Kalhor at Tully Scope, but even the Lincoln Center website lists Kayhan Kalhor first. But after a slightly negative review of Brooklyn […]
Charles Murray and “The Impossibility of Being Nonjudgmental” (part 1)
In Chapter 5, “Excellence and its Identification,” of Charles Murray’s book (Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950) the author writes in the […]
"…inspired by the shape of his son’s bleached skeleton"
I came across this passage: According to Farabi, the oud was invented by Lamech, the sixth grandson of Adam. The legend tells that the grieving Lamech hung the body of […]
