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Mulatu's Harvard Fellowship

LewisLewis Connecticut 101 Posts
edited October 2007 in Strut Central
I couldnt help but post this here.Came across it randomly while looking up something totally different. Mulatu's Harvard Fellowship

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  • faux_rillzfaux_rillz 14,343 Posts
    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...
  • hemolhemol 2,578 Posts
    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.
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