The event featured three world champions: Alexander Alekhine of Russia, José Capablanca of Cuba and the eventual victor, Emanuel Lasker of the United States, who, at 56, was thought to be too old to handle the strain of world-class tournament chess.
If anything the band was too polished, evoking smooth jazz and the more homogenized strains of world music.
As a means of introducing American audiences to various strains of world music, Byrne established Luaka Bop Records in 1988.
"It's like the blurbs of ink with the psychiatrist," Emily said, chiseling fastidiously with a plastic tool as the improvised strains of world music being played in the center of the art studio became more strident.
For many years, it was the only place in the city (and maybe on the East Coast) where you could find copies of great but commercially unpopular records: free jazz, certain strains of world music, Krautrock, long forgotten folk balladry.
But Mr. Jarvi's tastes ran wider still, taking in jazz, rock, hip-hop and various strains of world music; accordingly, the Absolute Ensemble morphed into an electro-acoustic band better suited to expressing his inclusionary aesthetic.
On New Year's Day 1973 Mr. Jansch left the group, whose members were buckling under the strain of five world tours.
Ethiopia and Pakistan bear the greatest economic strain of the world's biggest refugee-hosting countries, while Lebanon and Jordan host the most refugees relative to the size of their own populations, UNHCR said.
Now, the strain of the world's economic woes and changing local dynamics mean the region's luck is running thin.
But because of the initial failures, other parts of the complex system have yet to be proved under the intense strain of real-world conditions.
