Zedashe EnsembleWednesday, OCTOBER 24 • 8 pm
Click to download PROGRAM NOTES From a 4th-Century monastery in eastern Georgia, the Zedashe Ensemble's fluid voices soar across the Caucasus Mountains to the Black Sea. Nine youthful singers, musicians and dancers transport listeners with early liturgical chants, heroic ballads, love songs—and the haunting grandeur of Georgian polyphony that predates Christianity. Like the fine wine of their homeland, stored in special earthenware jugs (zedashes) and reserved for ritual occasions, the Ensemble's vocal harmonies are rich, deep and exuberant. With their folkloric mountain dances and instruments, they conjure up the antiquity and otherworldly beauty of this ancient Eurasian crossroads. Cosponsored by the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding.
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 “...tunes one's life to the rhythm of a beating heart…where earthly reality ends and where heavenly begins.”
PURCHASE TICKETS ONLINERELATED EVENTSSetting the Stage:Exploring Georgian CultureWednesday, October 24 • 6:30 pm SOUNDS AND TASTES OF THE CAUCASUS:Music, Language, and Food in GeorgiaThursday, October 25 • 9 am–1 pm |
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