Yale Bulletin and Calendar

February 29, 2008|Volume 36, Number 20

Arabic music past and present
is explored in new exhibition

The development of Arabic music over the last 15 centuries is traced in a new exhibition at the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library in Sterling Memorial Library.

The exhibition focuses particularly on 20th-century composers and artists, including Umm Kulthum, the most famous singer in the Arab world in that period. Her performing career lasted for over 50 years, from about 1910 until a final illness in Cairo in 1973. For almost 40 years, her monthly Thursday night concerts were broadcast live on Egyptian radio. As a result, her audience consisted of millions, reaching far beyond the concert-going public of Cairo to households all over the Middle East.

The exhibition is on view through March 31.

The Gilmore Music Library, 120 High St., is open Monday-Thursday, 8:30 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; and Sunday, 1-9 p.m.

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