Also resources for global string tradition and repertoire. What if Johann Sebastian Bach, rather than his brother, Johann Jacob Bach, had lived in the Ottoman Empire? What would the Cello Suites have sounded like had Bach written them in Classical Ottoman style? Come hear a speculative aural journey into the Ottoman Fasıl and find the similarities between Baroque Suites as movements from the respe
ctive cultures are played back to back highlighting the dance origins of the two cultures' multi-movement musical forms. We're in an era where understanding between cultures is needed, and one way to do that is through music. What better way than by celebrating through musical masterpieces from both the West and the Near East?