Concert at Freer Gallery fuses modernism with Turkish and Persian musical tradition

For millennia, Anatolia (also known as Asia Minor) has been a cultural crossroads where the arts of East and West met and transformed each other. That kind of cross-fertilization continues -- as an intriguing concert at the Freer Gallery of Art on Thursday night demonstrated -- and is producing music that fuses hard-edged modernism with the deep currents of Turkish and Persian musical traditions.