Mulatu's Harvard Fellowship

Lewis

I couldnt help but post this here.Came across it randomly while looking up something totally different. Mulatu's Harvard Fellowship

faux_rillz

While at Radcliffe, Astatke will research how to develop the krarr, a traditional Ethiopian five-string instrument, with electronic music specialists; write an opera based on Ethiopian Coptic Church music written around AD 380, which will be conducted using the mekwamia, an ancient conducting stick; and write a book on the historical context of instruments used in the Ethiopian Coptic Church and their contribution to the development of world music.

Kind of a lot to attempt in one year...

hemol

While at Radcliffe, Astatke will research how to develop the krarr, a traditional Ethiopian five-string instrument, with electronic music specialists; write an opera based on Ethiopian Coptic Church music written around AD 380, which will be conducted using the mekwamia, an ancient conducting stick; and write a book on the historical context of instruments used in the Ethiopian Coptic Church and their contribution to the development of world music.

Kind of a lot to attempt in one year...

Typical academia though. in the end it will probably just be thiry minute panel where dude reads thirty minutes of text from a 100 page paper.