I had the pleasure of attending the Grant Park Music Festival’s Wednesday evening
concert featuring kora virtuoso Toumani Diabate. If you aren’t familiar with the kora, it is a 21-string West African instrument that resembles a harp. Carlos Kalmar and the Grant Park Orchestra opened the concert with Fela Sowande’s African Suite. Toumani Diabate and three accompanying musicians then joined the orchestra for six pieces composed by Diabate and arranged for kora and orchestra including
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