The three founding members, Mehmet Sanlikol, Robert Labaree and Cem
Mutlu, as the DUNYA ensemble was featured on May 31, 2006 at Kennedy
Center's Millennium Stage.
For this Millennium Stage debut DUNYA
presented unique ways of presenting Turkish music, which they have been
working on for nearly half a decade. The repertoire included two love
songs back-to-back but bridged by improvised vocals, the first love song
composed by an Ottoman sultan, the second by a contemporary Turkish
singer. Another genre that was explored derives from beraber taksim
(different instruments improvising simultaneously), which they have
developed into their own cift gazel in which two singers improvise
simultaneously while carefully following each other in the style of
Hafiz.
Add to this original compositions, influenced by Jazz, Western
Classical, Turkish Classical, Turkish Folk, and contemporary music and
enter through DUNYA's portal into the complex intricacies of multiple
Turkish musical traditions."
WATCH DUNYA's May 31, 2006 Kennedy Center/Millennium Stage PERFORMANCE
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Program:
* Polyphonic Folk Music (cura/duduk, ceng, percussion)
* Koyunu Horeyledim (anonymous)
* Cura taksim (anonymous)
* Bir Kiz ile Bir Gelin (anonymous)
* Sultan Selim III to Mustafa Sandal (ud/ney, ceng, percussion)
* Sevk-u Tarab Sarki (Sultan Selim III)
* Beni Aglatma (Mustafa Sandal)
* Sacred Music (ud, ceng, percussion)
* Kha-desh Keke Dem (A Maftirim song) (anonymous)
* Beraber Taksim (collective improvisation) over Perde Kaldirma
(modulation)
* Nev¹eser Durak (Huseyin Saadettin Arel)
* Dinle Sozumu (anonymous)
* Continuation of Ottoman Music (piano, ceng, drum set/percussion)
* 7th Day (Mehmet Ali Sanlikol)
* Nefes from Keloglan (Mehmet Ali Sanlikol)
Performers:
* Mehmet Ali Sanlikol (voice, piano, ud, cura, duduk)
* Robert Labaree (voice, percussion, ceng)
* Cem Mutlu (voice, percussion)