It will visit around 30 cities during its current tour. We'll be playing at a number of UC locations. The music has been very popular in California. While all the instruments they use, from the igil to the byzaanchi, are pretty exotic to Western ears, it is the throat singing, called khoomei, that seems to attract the most interest. It seems like something that is impossible for people to do.
People are amazed and delighted by it.
But Levine stresses the similarities between Tuvan music and more familiar genres. The show starts at 8 p.m. at Varsity Theatre.