SACRED SOUNDSCAPES
Musical Traditions from the Ottoman Empire
featuring,
Beth Bahia Cohen, violin, voice; Burcu Güleç, voice; Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol, ney, ud, voice; George Lernis and Bertram Lehmann, percussion
In this musical and historical feast, the Dünya Ensemble is joined by Hadar Feldman Samet, a scholar of Ottoman Jewish culture, to present a historical tableau of musical practices among the Muslims, Christians, Jews, and heterodox groups that coexisted in the tumultuous nineteenth century in the Ottoman Empire. The many layers of communal interaction created deep historical and musical influences between these religious traditions.
Sunday, January 21 2014 – 2pm – Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History, 101 S. Independence Mall East, Philadelphia
MORE INFO: https://katz.sas.upenn.edu/events/sacred-soundscapes-musical-traditions-ottoman-empire
Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol Trio
at the Regattabar
GRAMMY-nominated composer and jazz pianist Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol has established himself as one of the most singular voices of his generation. His signature blend of Turkish music with jazz, in which Near and Middle Eastern modes and rhythmic cycles are intertwined with contemporary jazz, is wholly his own.
with
Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol – piano, R17, ney, voice, James Heazlewood-Dale – bass, George Lernis – drums, percussion
APRIL 12, 2024 – 7:30PM SHOW: BUY TICKETS HERE & 9:30PM SHOW: BUY TICKETS HERE
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Mehmet ali Sanlikol with the Dünya Ensemble at the symphony hall boston
May 8 2024 Boston Symphony Hall
DÜNYA (the Turkish, Arabic, Persian, Greek word for “world”), a musicians’ collective and a record label, is a non-profit, tax exempt educational organization located in Boston, Massachusetts. Its goal is to explore a cosmopolitan view of the world through the lens of a wide range of Turkish traditions, alone and in conversation with the musics of the formerly Ottoman peoples—Greeks, Jews, Armenians, Arabs, Kurds, mystics—as well as with western and other world traditions. The DÜNYA collective includes specialists in Ottoman music, early European music, Middle Eastern Christian and Jewish music, ethnomusicology, jazz, contemporary composition and popular music. In DÜNYA projects, research and translation combine with original composition, improvisation and musical experimentation to create lively presentations, recordings and publications aimed at engaging contemporary audiences. DÜNYA seeks to work with a wide range of cultural and religious organizations and relies on no particular political, governmental or religious affiliation or support of any kind.
Blue Heron returns to its origins, singing the glorious music of Hugh Aston from the Peterhouse Partbooks, and looks to the future with two works by Boston composer Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol setting Turkish Sufi texts, including a new piece written for the occasion, The Triumph.
Blue Heron’s 25th Birthday Party Reception to follow!
