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.

Location: DIONYSOS club/restaurant
617 661 6800
777 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA
Date/Time: Thursday, August 24th, 2006 9:30 pm
Price of admission: General: $15

 

 

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.

Location: Boston University, Concert Hall
Date/Time: Saturday, September 16, 8:00 pm
Price of admission: General: $15, Student/Seniors $10

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.

Location: DIONYSOS club/restaurant
617 661 6800
777 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA
Date/Time: Thursday, September 28th, 2006 9:30 pm
Price of admission: General: $15

 

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.

Location: DIONYSOS club/restaurant
617 661 6800
777 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA
Date/Time: Thursday, October 12th, 2006 9:30 pm
Price of admission: General: $15

 

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.

Location: Suffolk University, C. Walsh Theatre
Date/Time: Friday, October 27, 8:00 pm
Price of admission: General: $20, Students/Seniors: $15
Location: RISD Auditorium
Date/Time: Saturday, October 28, 7:30 pm pre-concert talk, 8:00 pm concert

 

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.

Location: DIONYSOS club/restaurant
617 661 6800
777 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA
Date/Time: Thursday, November 2, 9:30 pm
Price of admission: General: $15

 

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.

Location: Ryles Jazz Club
Date/Time: Friday, November 17, 9:00 pm
Price of admission: General: $15

 

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.

Location: New England Conservatory , Jordan Hall
Date/Time: Tuesday, March 14, 8:00 pm
Price of admission: Free

 

Wisdom and Turkish HumorKaragöz, 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”.

Location: MIT, Big Kresge Auditorium
Date/Time: Saturday, April 1, 8:00 pm
Price of admission: General: $20, students/seniors: $15, MIT students: $10
Produced in collaboration with The MIT Turkish Student Organization

 

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

Location: Filarmonica Santo Antonio Cultural Center
Date/Time: Friday, April 21, 8:00 pm
Price of admission: General: $40

 

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.

Location: Boston Center for the Arts, Cyclorama
Date/Time: April 9, 3:00pm
Price of admission: Free

 

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.

Location: Club Passim
Date/Time: May 15, 8:00 pm
Price of admission: General: $12
Produced in collaboration with Arabesque Mondays

 

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!

Featuring: Mehmet Ali SANLIKOL (voice, ud)
Mal BARSAMIAN (clarinet)
Cem MUTLU (voice, percussion)
Eylem BAŞALDI (violin)
Theodoulos VAKANAS (violin)
Location: DIONYSOS club/restaurant
617 661 6800
777 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA
Date/Time: Thursday, June 8th, 2006 9:30 pm
Price of admission: General: $15

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