NEW YORK - Dunya Ensemble, a music band based in Boston, gave a concert on Friday in New York to introduce traditional Turkish-Ottoman music to New Yorkers.
Dunya Ensemble performed their music using contemporary technology with the traditions of Ottoman music in original pieces for instruments and voices. Musicians Mehmet Ali Sanlikol, Robert Labaree and Cem Mutlu bring new life into the genres of mehter (Janissary music), sema (Sufi devotional music) and ince saz (instrumental music).
The concert was organized jointly by the Carnegie Hall, Brooklyn Borough, Turkish Consulate General in New York and "The Moon and Stars Project".
(TÇ-AY)