AN OTTOMAN MUSIC performance by Turkish music historian Dr. Emre Aracı is set to take place in London on Friday 27th November at Cadogan Hall, 7:30pm.
Turkish music historian Dr. Emre Aracı.
The 19th Century concert “Waltzes with Sultans”, will include waltzes, polkas and marches composed members of the Ottoman Imperial family. Joining the masters of the music will also be two famous Italian pashas, Giuseppe Donizetti and Callisto Guatelli in the performance. It is co-organized by Yunus Emre Institute London and Turkish Culture & Information Office in London.
Music historian Dr. Emre Aracı will the Chamber Ensemble of London, lead by Peter Fisher, to introduce and conduct his original string arrangements, selected from this lost world of musical ephemera. They will be creating in the words of The Gramophone “an unexpectedly attractive collection”. This unique event brings back the glories of a vanished and elegant past, which once decorated the banks of the Bosphorus in the nineteenth century.
The attaché of the Turkish Culture and Tourism Office, Ali Selçuk Can said that; “With this historic event, we are hoping that the British public will discover the similarities of Turkish music and culture to that of Europe.”
Through Aracı’s orchestrations, royal compositions by members of the imperial family and Donizetti Pasha’s distinctive works have found a new lease of life. The audience will be lead to the unknown territory of forgotten compositions from the Ottoman Empire. The history of every individual work will also be explained by Aracı, as he shows the levels of musical interchange that existed between East and West, in an age which is no longer seen.
As Talat Sait Halman once said; “Dr. Aracı mediates between Ottoman and European, Turkish and British, Eastern and Western”.
Mehmet Sen, the director of Yunus Emre Institute London commented on this quote by saying: “In that sense his last name is symbolically significant as well: Aracı means mediator or intermediary.”
Free tickets for the concert are available at Cadogan Hall box-office and Cadogan Hall webpage.
Doors will open at 7.00pm.
For more information regarding the event please visit;
http://www.cadoganhall.com/event/waltzes-with-sultans-151127/
