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Danilo Pérez’s Global Messengers And Amir Elsaffar’s Two Rivers Ensemble at Sanders Theatre
Courtesy of Celebrity Series of Boston | Posted on December 6, 2018
Where
Sanders Theatre
45 Quincy St
Cambridge, MA
Map
(617) 496-2222
When
Fri, March 29, 2019
8:00 pm
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Musicians
About
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Led by Panamanian pianist and composer Danilo Pérez, the Global Messengers draws its unique spirit from the culture and experiences of its members, who hail variously from Palestine, Greece, Jordan, and Panama, with varied musical traditions and instrumentation to match. Danilo Pérez and the Global Messengers are committed to the ancient practice of building community through melodically rich and rhythmically exciting music.
Led by trumpeter Amir ElSaffar, The Two Rivers Ensemble is a sextet of jazz and Middle Eastern musicians particularly notable for combining the maqam modal system—which ElSaffar studied in Baghdad—with American jazz...