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Susan Allen
Susan Allen is Associate Dean and Instructor in harp at the California Institute of the Arts. Throughout her thirty-year career she has built a reputation as a virtuoso harpist, and has appeared with many of the world’s foremost musicians in a number of fields, from fellow classical musicians to jazz musicians like Dave Brubeck and world-renowned performers like violinist L. Shankar.

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Susan Allen, Associate Dean at the California Institute of the Arts, discusses how world music is used in the Cal Arts curriculum, and shares her thoughts on why all music students should spend some time exploring sounds and techniques that fall outside the Western tradition.

Shoot Date: Nov-05

Keywords:
Music Education | Music Schools | World Music

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World Music
Company or School:
Cal Arts

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