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Iberian Suite at Kennedy Center aims to engage on many levels

by Philip Kennicott, Nelson Pressley, Sarah Kaufman, Anne Midgette, Peggy McGlone

The Kennedy Center's nearly month-long Iberian Suite: Global Arts Remix sweeps us to the peninsula of Portugal and Spain. And it doesn't stop there. The "remix" aims to illuminate ways that traditions have been adapted and borders have been crossed: Portugal's four-stringed cavaquinho, for instance, traveled around the globe and became Hawaii's ukulele. The roots of fado, flamenco and tango reach into Africa and Arab…

SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:12pm on February 26, 2015