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# Diana Rowan This work merits attention for how it reconciles apparently incompatible musical worlds. Rowan's classical foundation—rigorous, architecturally precise—meets her deep engagement with Balkan, Eastern European, and Middle Eastern traditions, creating something genuinely hybrid rather than merely eclectic. The harp becomes a bridge between cultures, its voice transformed by musical languages that reshape melody, rhythm, and harmonic expectation. What emerges is neither folk interpretation nor concert transcription, but a third space where formal training and lived musical experience inform each other. The result asks listeners to hear the harp anew, not as a purely European instrument, but as something more porous, more connected to