Music in the Stacks

The recital is part of an ongoing exhibit project about the Turkish four reed-Ney instruments acquired by the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania as a gift given by Sarah Frishmuth, renowned collector of antique musical instruments at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. The recital offers an organological contribution informed by the ethnomusicological research on Muslim mysticism and listening by Juan Castrillón (PhD student, Penn).

The intimate group of flutists known as the "Library Choir" will perform music from Holst's The Planets, de Falla's Ritual Fire Dance and Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture.