A musical journey from Jacaranda Ensemble
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Georgina Benison -
On Monday evening, February 6, Arabesque International, together with the German Embassy in Muscat, presented the second concert in the third season of the Muscat Chamber Music Series at the Oman Auditorium of the Al Bustan Palace, a Ritz-Carlton hotel. This was no ordinary concert and it was by no means Classical, even though the five members of the Jacaranda Ensemble are from the Brandenburg Orchestra in Germany one of the top symphony orchestras of the world.
They titled their performance, a musical journey, and it truly was an eclectic tour of many styles and genres from around the world, reflecting their experiences while on tour with the orchestra, and the versatility of these fine musicians. Their signature instrument is the long, unwieldy alpenhorn from Bavaria which they have ingeniously combined with the Australian didgeridoo (an alpendidgeridoo) to create a lyrical bass sound which underlies much of