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Mehmet Ali Sanlikol, Director A series of monthly concerts celebrating a wide range of Turkish music through several centuries. Ottoman classical music, songs from the Turkish countryside, Sufi devotional music and Turkish pop music interact with one another and with other world traditions to provide a contemporary view of tradition itself |
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Bugüne Bir Miras: Osmanlı Musıkisinin Devami / A Heritage for Our Time: The Continuation of Ottoman Music 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.
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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 Turkeyıs Republic Day.
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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.
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THE YOUNG TURKS featuring Tiger Okoshi The dictionary defines "young turk" as "a young person eager for radical change to the established order." Nothing better describes this band's music than that definition. The Young Turks is composed of two Turkish musicians along with a Brazilian and an American musician. The group's sound is heavily influenced by Turkish music, history, culture and traditions. The Young Turks believe that pursuing repetitive, derivative and commercial avenues for music results in that music losing its integrity and free spirit. Their radical alternative (a belief whose time, they strongly feel, has come), is to involve many new ethnic communities, with their corresponding cultural traditions and their music into a new, combined jazz _expression. In this way, the music, by its very nature, will strive for new, original, higher standards.
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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 hafizlar, individuals especially trained to improvise performances of The Holy Koran in Arabic. It was usually only the hafiz 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 music, as well. This concert will feature a dialogue between Turkish and Arabic musicians in the improvised love song tradition they share.
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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
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Allah'ın adını Zikredelim/Let us repeat the name of God 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.
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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.
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Ali Ufki’nin Mezmurlari/ 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.
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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. Check out the article whick came out on Boston's Weekly Dig
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