- Listen to Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol discuss DÜNYA’s A Story of the City: Constantinople, Istanbul double CD set
- Listen to Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol discuss DÜNYA’s Music of Cyprus CD
DÜNYA on PRI
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The Music of Istanbul’s Inhabitants – a journey in time
by Aaron Howard
Jewish Herald-Voice, December 29, 2011
Many people know that Istanbul was the capital of the Ottoman Empire for five centuries. But, most forget the city also was capital of the Roman (Byzantine) Empire before that for 10 centuries. Thus, if one wanted to explore Istanbul’s many-layered communal history through music, you’d have to start with Greek Orthodox Church and Byzantine secular music. Then, one might visit Crusader songs…
Dunya Ensemble Traces 1000 Years of Istanbul Music on a Massive Double Album
by delarue
Lucid Culture, November 30, 2011
Boston-based Turkish music group Dunya Ensemble has two new double albums out. The first of these is the lavish A Story of the City: Constantinople, Istanbul, a dreamlike, surreal and sometimes ghostly creation…
A Masterful Voyage through the Musical History of Istanbul
by Aromero
World Music Central, October 18, 2011
One of the most interesting releases scheduled for November 2011 is the two CD set titled A Story of the City…
Dunya
A Story of the City: Constantinople Istanbul
by David Luhrssen
Express Milwaukee, October 9, 2011
Istanbul, or Constantinople as it was known for much of its history, was always one of the crossroads of the world. As the place where Asia meets Europe and the Black Sea flows into Mediterranean, the city was the capital of the Byzantine and Ottoman empires…
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Playing for the Planet unites activist musicians
by Andrew Gilbert
The Boston Globe, November 11, 2011
Mehmet Ali Sanlikol is one of the musicians performing at the Playing for the Planet concert. Warren Senders figures that a global crisis requires an international response…
Muslims and Jews, in Harmony
by Jim Ball
The Jewish Advocate, January 21, 2011
“You can’t build walls high enough to keep out the penetration of music,” said ethnomusicologist Robert Labaree. “You can’t stop music.” The New England Conservatory professor spoke at Congregation Beth El of Sudbury as part of a Martin Luther King Day program that focused on the little known 1,500 year connection…
Listen to the music of Cyprus / Kıbrıs’ın Sesi’ne kulak verin
by Burçin Tuncer
North Cyprus Magazine, 2008
The island of Cyprus is known for its multicultural structure, a historical legacy of thousands of years of inter-civilizational interaction. For long years, Greeks and Turks have lived on this island together, enjoying and disliking similar things…
DUNYA
by Roanna Forman
Artscope, Nov./Dec. 2007
That line, from Dunya’s 2006 concert production of “Wisdom and Turkish Humor”, sums up the organization’s raison d’etre and extraordinary appeal. Directror Mehmet Ali Sanlikol founded the organization with Robert Labaree in 2004 to “find creative ways to show paradoxes found in parallel, but contradictory…
Turkish, Western traditions in harmony
by David Perkins
The Boston Globe, October 31, 2006
The concert began with a rumble of drums, followed by a blare of trumpets and shawms of the sort that must have terrified Vienna when the Ottomans besieged the city in 1683. It ended with a laughing arrangement of Mozart’s ”Rondo Alla turca” written a century later…
Get a taste of Turkey at Ryles,
by Bob Young
Boston Herald, November 18, 2005
”I Will Survive” in Turkish? A lute slicing through a funk tune? Armenian rap? Get ready for Middle Eastern Rap, Funk and Disco Night at Ryles in Cambridge tonight…
DOCTOR OF MUSIC,
by Cemil Özyurt
Turk of America, April 2005
Since last year music enthusiasts in Boston have been able to enjoy themselves at a variety of music concerts, randing from Sufi music, from Anatolian Rock to the songs of famous…
Turkish Arabesk,
by Matuya Brand
Weekly Dig, April 16, 2004
Arabesk is like rap music – brewed in the ghetto as a response to issues of social justice but increasingly popular. Its popularization, however, says Mehmet Sanlikol, a doctoral student at the New England Conservatory, lacks depth and meaning…
DÜNYA on NPR
July 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Listen to Mehmet Sanlıkol and Theodoulos Vakanas discuss DÜNYA’s Music of Cyprus CD on NPR’s Here and Now with Robin Young
Watch a panel of scholars speak on cultural, historical, religious, and musical aspects of the Jewish-Sufi collaborations in Turkey from the 16th to the 20th centuries,
which is then followed by a recital of Jewish and Muslim vocalists and instrumentalists playing examples of relevant musical repertoire.
a non-profit, 501 (c) 3-tax exempt educational organization located in Boston, MA, USA. Its goal is to present a contemporary view of a wide range of Turkish traditions, alone and in interaction with other world traditions, through performance, publication and other educational activities. DÜNYA seeks to work with a wide range of cultural and religious organizations and musical groups but relies on no particular political, governmental or religious affiliation or support of any kind.