Using small stories to build big new worlds
I entered the Zoom session with an awkward jolt as if I had just taken a poorly timed step off a moving walkway. When you join a Zoom meeting, you just appear, landing abruptly from a jaunt in the...
I entered the Zoom session with an awkward jolt as if I had just taken a poorly timed step off a moving walkway. When you join a Zoom meeting, you just appear, landing abruptly from a jaunt in the...
Jan. 19, 2020: An interview with Steve Swayne, the Jacob H. Strauss 1922 Professor of Music at Dartmouth College, on The Sydcast , a podcast series by Syd Finkelstein, the Steven Roth Professor of...
Operawire, Feb. 10, 2017: A tribute to soprano Leontyne Price on her 90th birthday.
July 2017: Downbeat magazine reviews Rivers of Sound's Not Two , saying that on this album, ElSaffar has "moved beyond building bridges. His music has become the river. "
A 2013 "field recording" by NPR Music of a concert in a music store by Amir ElSaffar and bandmates to raise money to help a fellow musician whose drum kit was destroyed in Hurricane Sandy.