This Saturday, October 3, Robert Browning Associates launches its new season at Brooklyn’s Roulette with Tarabesque: New Journeys in Arabic Music, a performance by composer and master qanun (zither) virtuoso Firas Zreik.  Known for expanding the boundaries of the traditional 78-string Arabic lap zither, Zreik fuses Mediterranean modal traditions withContinue Reading

Just under a month before his 101st birthday, saxophonist Marshall Allen performed his debut solo album, â€śNew Dawn”, (released in February on Week-End Records), live for the first time.  The album’s time-crossed, space-tinged, and warmly inviting tunes was widely enjoyed tonight at the Roulette Intermedium. If you live in NY and loveContinue Reading