West meets East

On Friday I attended an excellent concert by the Australian Chamber Orchestra and the Tawadros brothers, Joseph and James. They played a mixture of Verdi’s 4 Seasons interspersed by original pieces by Joseph Tawadros. The Youtube clip froman earlier concert below gives a feeling for the exceptional musicianship of these people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t9LYlf0MWo

The playing of Joseph Tawadros reminded me of the guitar of Davey Graham, who some 50 years ago moved in the opposite direction.  The clip below shows a live performance of She Moves Through the Fair, otherwise known as She Moved Through the Bizarre/Blue Raga (edit 24 May 2015 – the original video has gone private, now replaced with an audio track, probably of the same performance):

For more on Davy Graham (including two full audio recordings) see: She Moves Through the Fair: Davy Graham (and Jimmy Page) Just found, a preview for the ACO/Tawadros concert:

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