This event is in the past.It took place on August 13, 2025 at Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Jazz & Blues
Jazz & BluesViolinist MEGUMI premieres a haunting new commission that gives voice to silenced women from Egypt, Syria, Palestine, and Japan. The music weaves jazz, Arabic maqam, and Japanese lyricism into asymmetrical rhythms that hold memory against erasure.
Contemporary classical
Jazz-Arabic fusion
Commissioned premiere
Intimate venue
Tips
🎻commissioned by American Composers Forum
🎭balcony seats have limited sightlines
🏛️historic venue, art gallery in lobby
Grenades on the Dance Floor
Fort Greene
Jazz & BluesJazz & BluesViolinist MEGUMI premieres a haunting new commission that gives voice to silenced women from Egypt, Syria, Palestine, and Japan. The music weaves jazz, Arabic maqam, and Japanese lyricism into asymmetrical rhythms that hold memory against erasure.
Contemporary classical
Jazz-Arabic fusion
Commissioned premiere
Intimate venue
Tips
🎻commissioned by American Composers Forum
🎭balcony seats have limited sightlines
🏛️historic venue, art gallery in lobby
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