Mehmet Ali Sanlikol, Director
Serap Kantarci Sanlikol, Coordinator
Robert Labaree, Program Advisor

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

FASIL NIGHT 1: GAZINO style FASIL	pictures

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.
 

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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. 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.

FASIL NIGHT 2: GAZINO style FASIL	pictures

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.
 

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.
 

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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.

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.

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.
 

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Jazz & Funk w/Mehmet Sanlikol and Friends

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

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Dostlar Beni Hatirlasin:Versions of Asik Veysel, Turkish Troubadour

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

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Wisdom and Turkish Humor : Karagöz, Nasreddin Hoca and Keloglan with Dünya Ensemble , Mavi Dance and PALS Children's Chorus

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 SANLIKOL about the foolish Keloglan, the poor village “bald boy”.

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

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 Fazil's Mediterranean Kitchen

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The Music of Cyprus

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

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

The Ali Ufki Sacred Music Project is a series of interactive programs of music and conversation.   The project¹s 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.

SEASON FINAL: "GAZINO"Style FASIL Night		pictures

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!
 

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