The world-renowned National Arab Orchestra returns to Concert of Colors for its second year. Ahead of the orchestra’s performance, One Detroit contributor Cecelia Sharpe of 90.9 WRCJ sat down with ...

The 25-member National Arab Orchestra, a Michigan-based group established to “preserve and integrate Arab culture,” will perform a trio of high-energy San Antonio concerts featuring collaborations ...

It’s been said music crosses cultural and historical barriers. And while metro Detroit’s music scene has always been diverse, Arabic music rarely enters the conversation. Conductor, musician, and ...

At a time of great unrest in both the Middle East and United States, symphonic ensembles from the two largest Arab population centers in Michigan – Dearborn and Flint – will use the universal language ...

For anyone who’s been moved by the arts, the power within creative expression is profoundly understood. Art holds the capability to heal, to inspire, to educate, to connect and to transform. It serves ...

SOUTHFIELD (AP) — A Michigan-based orchestra with a mission of reviving Arab music is tuning up for its annual gala concert. The National Arab Orchestra holds its event March 18 at the Regency Manor ...

Founded by Michael Ibrahim as a student ensemble at the University of Michigan in 2009, the National Arab Orchestra soon rose to become the “nation’s leading organization for Arab music.” Synthesizing ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — The strings hold a quiet rhythm and the flute lifts in a long rippling call. The melody line carries clear and strong, Plucked strings take it up, and the music builds, fast and soaring ...

Detroit’s Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts announced this week that it is the new home for the Michigan Arab Orchestra. To celebrate, the Music Hall will present the orchestra’s season ...

Join us and the National Arab Orchestra this Arab American Heritage Month in celebration of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan and is an occasion for peace, joy, and ...

Fear may take a different shape or form with age, but it remains a profound inhibitor in response to uncertainty. Health and employment status are anxiety-provoking stimuli, particularly in a time ...

A new partnership between an orchestra in Israel and a nonprofit in Philadelphia began with Rabbi David Straus playing matchmaker. The Main Line Reform Temple rabbi heard about Polyphony of Nazareth, ...