So many ways to offer
praise
The voices of varied religions unite in a
touring version of Fés sacred music
festival.
By Don Heckman?Special to The Los Angeles
Times,?October 28, 2006
The
Fés Festival of World Sacred Music
— which annually brings musicians of every
imaginable religious background to Morocco
for a transcendent spiritual and cultural
get-together — seems like a virtual anomaly
at a time when much of the world is ablaze
with confrontations between differing forms
of religious fundamentalism, more eager to
emphasize differences than share common ground.
But the touring mini-version of the Festival,
"Spirit of Fés: Paths to Hope,"
at UCLA's Royce Hall on Thursday offered a
very real image of the warm, integrative qualities
of music.?
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