Daily Archives: July 21, 2011

FALL 2006

GAZINO style FASIL

Turkish classical and folk music in its most infectious form, presented monthly in an intimate setting with food and drink where audience interaction is expected.

The Continuation of Ottoman Music

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Original compositions for instruments and voices by Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol combining the idioms of Ottoman traditional music with contemporary media and methods. Mehter (Janissary music), sema (Sufi devotional music), and ince saz müziği (instrumental music) are explored producing striking new pieces which carry on and extend their traditional models. The concert will end with a composition inspired by W. A. Mozart.

Co-sponsored by the College of Fine Arts at BU. This event is funded in part by a grant from the New England Foundation for the Arts and Meet the Composer, Inc., with additional support from ASCAP, The Virgil Thomson Fund, and with additional support from the six New England state arts agencies and the National Endowment for the Arts.

GAZINO style FASIL

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Turkish classical and folk music in its most infectious form, presented monthly in an intimate setting with food and drink where audience interaction is expected.

GAZINO style FASIL

Turkish classical and folk music in its most infectious form, presented monthly in an intimate setting with food and drink where audience interaction is expected.

European Travelers and the Ottomans

A concert dedicated to W. A. Mozart in the 250th year of his birth

A collaboration with The Boston Camerata, Joel Cohen, music director

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A dialogue between the music of Europe from the 15th to the 18th centuries and Ottoman Turkish music of the same period, inspired by the notations and accounts of early European travelers.

The concert culminates in the music of Mozart himself, the most famous of the “alla turca” composers.

GAZINO style FASIL

Turkish classical and folk music in its most infectious form, presented monthly in an intimate setting with food and drink where audience interaction is expected.

Jazz & Funk w/Mehmet Sanlıkol and Friends

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Original compositions for horns and rhythm section by Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol combining the idioms of Jazz and Funk with a variety of Turkish and other world musics.

SPRING 2006

Dostlar Beni Hatırlasın: Versions of Aşık Veysel, Turkish Troubadour

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A celebration of the poetry and music of the blind Turkish folk poet and singer Aşık Veysel Şatıroğlu (1894-1973) in a wide range of original, borrowed and newly-created settings for voices and traditional instruments.

Wisdom and Turkish Humor: Karagöz, Nasreddin Hoca and Keloğlan

with Dünya Ensemble, Mavi Dance and PALS Children’s Chorus

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This concert will explore three comic archetypes from Turkey in which practical wisdom mingles with satire and Sufi philosophy. In Part I of the concert the Dünya ensemble and Mavi Dance will present the traditional music and characters of the satirical urban shadow puppet theater, Karagöz and Hacivat. The second part of the concert moves from city to town with a half composed, half improvised ballet based on a story about the famous Turkish comic archetype: Nasreddin Hoca. The concert closes with the 60-piece PALS Children’s Chorus and the Dünya ensemble performing an original composition by Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol about the foolish Keloğlan, the poor village “bald boy”.

Turkish Tangos of the 1930s and 40s
A Turkish dinner, with performance and dancing to benefit the DÜNYA organization

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European influences were beginning to be felt throughout the Ottoman Empire during its final days, setting the stage for the tango rage which struck the new Turkish Republic in the late 1920s. The Golden Age of the tango during these decades will be celebrated in this rare performance, featuring tango dancers Eray Yüksek and Martina Gracanin of Bailatango .

Dinner by Fazıl’s Mediterranean Kitchen

The Ali Ufki Sacred Music Project
(At the Faith Quilts project Grand Exhibition)

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The Ali Ufki Sacred Music Project is a series of interactive programs of music and conversation. The project’s aim is to foster awareness, deepen the dialogue, and celebrate commonalities among Jews, Christians and Muslims. The inspiration for these programs is the music and life of Ali Ufki, who lived in the cosmopolitan environment of seventeenth century Istanbul.

The Music of Cyprus

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A concert bringing together Greek and Turkish musicians to present the musical traditions of the Greek and Turkish communities on the island of Cyprus.

GAZINO style FASIL

A concert of Turkish classical and folk music at the famous DIONYSOS night club and restaurant
where you are invited to join in and sing your heart out!

SPONSORS
Gentle Movers
ALP Travel
Picasso Travel
NEX Shipping
Marco Polo Moving
Mezun USA
T & C Construction

FALL 2005

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A concert featuring the close relationship of Master Drummer and Master Dancer in selected corners of the world: the Middle East, Senegal, North India and Puerto Rico.

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Original compositions for instruments and voices by Mehmet Ali Sanlikol combining the idioms of Ottoman traditional music with contemporary media and methods. Mehter (Janissary music), sema (Sufi devotional music), and ince saz müzigi (instrumental music) are explored producing striking new pieces which carry on and extend their traditional models. The concert will feature the first appearance of The New England Drum and Winds Mehterhane.

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Middle Eastern and American musicians, together with Turkish and Armenian rappers and singers,in a program of Middle Eastern Rap, Funk, and Disco music rarely heard by American audiences.

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The Ali Ufki Sacred Music Project is a series of interactive programs of music and conversation.
The project’s aim is to foster awareness, deepen the dialogue, and celebrate commonalities among
Jews, Christians and Muslims. The inspiration for these programs is the music and life of Ali Ufki,
who lived in the cosmopolitan environment of seventeenth century Istanbul.

Feel free to bring your own Rakı and Meze…
Come and join our Arifhane!

Fasıl 1 Wednesday, September 21, 7:30 pm $10
Fasıl 2 Saturday, October 29, 9:30 pm $10
Fasıl 3 Saturday, December 10, 9:30 pm $10

Location: 1353 Cambridge Street
Inman Square, Cambridge
Tel: 617 876 6060

SPRING 2005

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Turkish songs, instrumental music and poetry on love and its consequences, with girls’ chorus, soloists and an ensemble of winds, strings and percussion co-sponsored by the Turkish American Cultural Society of New England directed by Robert Labaree

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During the late 60s and early 70s in Turkey a new trend in popular music came into being which combined American Rock and Pop with Turkish village music. The synthesis of these styles produced a musical language different from the more dominant Arabesk style which represented rural migrants recently arrived in the cities. Anadolu Rock/Pop appealed instead to the more educated classes. By the 1980s the style had faded in popularity but its classics continue to be played and remembered all over Turkey.

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Ali Ufki, born Wojciech Bobowski as a Polish Christian, converted to Islam after his capture by the Ottoman Turks at the age of 30, and became renowned as a musician and translator in the imperial court. His own collection of Turkish psalms based on the Genevan Psalter provides the starting point for this celebration of the intersection of Judaism, Greek Orthodoxy, Turkish Sufism, and Protestant Christianity.

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This concert will feature the music of the Armenian composers of the late Ottoman Empire. The legendary Armenian performers of Boston will join forces with a new generation of Turkish and American musicians

SPONSORS
Gentle Movers
Mezun USA

FALL 2004

Osmanlı Musıkisinin Devamı / The Continuation of Ottoman Music

Original compositions for instruments and voices by Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol combining the idioms of Ottoman traditional music with contemporary media and methods. Mehter (Janissary music), sema(Sufi devotional music), and ince saz müziği (instrumental music) are explored producing striking new pieces which carry on and extend their traditional models.

Cumhuriyet Tangoları / Turkish Tangos of the 1930s and 40s

European influences were beginning to be felt throughout the Ottoman Empire during its final days, setting the stage for the tango rage which struck the new Turkish Republic in the late 1920s. The Golden Age of the tango during these decades will be celebrated in this rare performance coinciding with Turkish Republic Day.

Yunan ve Türk Dini Günleri II / Greek and Turkish Holy Days II

On November 22, 2003 the first Greek and Turkish Holy Days concert celebrated two very important Holy Days of Orthodox Christianity and Islam which fell on the same day: The entrance of Mary(Theotokos) into the Temple and the revelation of the Holy Qur’an to the Prophet Muhammad. This year, members of the Orthodox and Muslim communities of Boston come together once again to celebrate these Holy days with Sufi and Byzantine music in mutual respect and joy.

Gazeller: The Voices of the East

During the latter days of the Ottoman Empire some of the most popular singers of commercial songs in Turkish were the hafız, individuals especially trained to improvise performances of The Holy Koran in Arabic. It was usually only the hafız who was considered up to the task of singing gazel, the highly prized free-rhythm improvisation on secular love poetry, a practice which has a number of parallels in Arabic and Greek music, as well. This concert will feature a dialogue between Turkish, Arabic and Greek musicians in the improvised love song tradition they share.

SPRING 2004

Cazda Türkiye, Türkiye’de Caz / Turkey in Jazz, Jazz in Turkey

An exploration of the mutual influences of Turkish music and Jazz in the work of a variety of Turkish and American musicians

In the zikir ceremonies of the Turkish sufi orders, repeated musical phrases and texts create a group experience which is both contemplative and ecstatic. In this concert, the Turkish zikir takes its place alongside African-American Gospel music and Haitian vodoun, which also rely on repetitive rhythms, words and melodies to pull us inward and upward.

Hocalarımız ile Sohbetler / Conversations with Our Teachers

A concert in which performers of Turkish classical and folk music pay their respects to their sources. Live performers interact with each other and with recordings of three generations of revered musicians, both the famous and the anonymous.

Ali Ufki’nin Mezmurları / The Psalms of Ali Ufki 

Ali Ufki, born Albert Bobowski in 1610, was a Polish Christian who converted to Islam after his capture by the Ottoman Turks, becoming renowned as a court musician, as a notator of Ottoman classical music, and as a Bible translator. In this concert of sacred music, Ali Ufki’s own settings of the psalms in Ottoman classical style will receive a rare performance.

Arabesk

Arabesk, for forty years the dominant popular music style in Turkey, has continued to absorb into it many strands of the Turkish musical tradition, combining it with contemporary social themes and commercial appeal in a way which still creates controversy.

SPONSORS
Gentle Movers
The Turkish American Cultural Society of New England
The MIT Turkish Student Association
The Graduate and Professional Student Association at NU