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Roland Peelman conducts the ensemble. Photo: Peter Hislop
Canberra International Music Festival / Concert 4, “Harim”. At the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, May 1. Reviewed by
GRAHAM McDONALD
THE initial publicity for this concert suggested a link to Islamic Sufi music. Sufis are a meditative sect who use music and dance in various forms to bring themselves to an ecstatic state of worship.
From the Mevlevi – the Whirling Dervishes – of Turkey to the Qawwali singers of Pakistan, Sufi music has a rich and varied place in the Islamic world.
Instead we were presented with music played on handpans and the world premiere on a work commissioned by the festival to showcase the contraforte, an improved version of a bass bassoon.