Events
Huun Huur Tu: Tuvan Music and Throat Singing
Feb 11 2010 8:00PM - 10:00PM
Performance Details
Thursday, February 11, 2010
8:00 pm
Cowell Theatre, Fort Mason Center
San Francisco
Tickets: $45/$35/$25
Discount rates available for groups of 10 or more - Call Cowell Theater to purchase: (415) 345-7575
About the Performers
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Tuvan ensemble Huun Huur Tu has appeared on stages throughout North America and Europe, representing a remarkable musical culture. The Tuvans, a South Siberian Turkic people who number roughly 150,000, preserve what are arguably some of the world's oldest forms of music-making.
What binds these forms together is their use of mimesis, or imitation for aesthetic purposes. By imitating or aesthetically representing the sounds of nature, human music-makers seek to link themselves to the beings and forces that most concern them: in the case of the Tuvans, domestic animals; the physical environment of mountains and grasslands; and the elemental energies of wind, water, and light.
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