Café Concert: Avi Avital
Jun 13, 2012•14 min•Ep. 10
Episode description
VIDEO: Avi Avital plays in the WQXR Café
When you think mandolin, bluegrass pickers and old-timey music frequently comes to mind – Bill Monroe, Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas or Chris Thile. But when Avi Avital sat down to play in the WQXR Café, the sounds of a Bach cello suite filled the air. Then came the strong mournful strains of Ernest Bloch's Nigun, a variation on an ancient Hebrew melody written for the violin.
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