Jazz Lives in Syria festival fills venues in two cities for seven days and nights of oriental fusion
Crowded concerts for an international line-up of musicians suggests a cultural awakening in Damascus and Aleppo
By Alex Selim
Special to The Daily Star
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
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As German accordionist Manfred Leuchter and Syrian clarinetist Kinan Azmeh played a fusion of oriental jazz, melodies in minor keys set to syncopated rhythms echoed off the stone walls of the Citadel in Damascus and floated into a cool summer sky. Then the two musicians paused between songs to let the muezzin at the nearby.
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