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Ancient Persian Music to Broaden Russia's Cultural Boundaries B2 Arts & Culture The Epoch Times June 11 – 17, 2009 MUSIC Ancient Persian Music Rich Season of Music Ahead By EMAN ISADIAR SAN FRANCISCO—Music lovers in all nine Bay to Broaden Russia’s Area counties are in for an especially rich 2009–2010 season of symphony and opera. Below are some of the highlights as announced by the region’s performing arts organizations. Cultural Boundaries San Francisco Symphony The season will open on Sept. 9 with pianist Lang Lang, followed by a three-week festival exploring the music of Gustav Mahler and others with artistic ties to the composer. Segments of the festival will be By KREMENA KRUMOVA fi lmed for future episodes of the symphony’s signature Epoch Times Staff educational series “Keeping Score.” Selected Mahler works will also be performed on tour in New York Music that will take you to the dri- and in Lucerne, Switzerland, while SFS Media plans est places of Iran; that will unveil for to release a new album with Mahler’s “Symphony of a you the mysticism of ancient Persia; Thousand” recorded live at Davies Hall in November and that will broaden your cultural 2008. perspective to the limit—this is what Other important season events include new the latest “Concerto for Baluch” by “Keeping Score” episodes featuring music by Berlioz, composer Mehdi Hosseini aspires to Shostakovich, and Ives to be broadcast on KQED in do. the fall; new residency projects with cellist Yo-Yo Ma The Association for Contemporary and composer George Benjamin; and a star-studded Music of the St. Petersburg Composers roster of guest artists from violinist Itzhak Perlman to Union will present “Concerto for baritone Thomas Hampson. San Francisco Symphony Baluch (for six instruments)” com- will also host performances by the Los Angeles posed by the Iranian-born composer Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Gewandhaus Mehdi Hosseini. The six instruments Orchestra, and Mariinsky Orchestra. of the composition are alto fl ute, con- Music director Michael Tilson Thomas—or trabassoon, horn, xylophone, violin, “MTT” as he is commonly known—will himself ap- and violoncello. pear as the soloist in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 The world premiere of the in January 2010. Concerto, which will be staged on June 11 in St. Petersburg, is inspired San Francisco Opera by Persian folk music. It will en- The single most important element of the Opera’s CHARISMATIC: San Francisco Opera welcomes highly deavor to uplift the audience’s souls upcoming season is of course the highly publicized acclaimed Italian conductor Nicola Luisotti as the and “create an atmosphere of open- handing over of the proverbial—and literal—baton company’s new artistic director. TERRENCE MCCARTHY ness to the plight of others.” by outgoing music director Donald Runnicles to the The music will be performed by se- charismatic Italian conductor Nicola Luisotti. lected soloists from the St. Petersburg The season opens on Sept. 11 with Verdi’s “Il State Conservatory and the St. Trovatore” followed by eight other productions, Oakland East Bay Symphony Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. namely “Il Trittico” featuring Puccini’s three sin- On Nov. 13, 2009, music director Michael Morgan WALL PAINTING: Musical performance from 17th century Persia COURTESY: Brad Cawyer, an American musi- MEHDI HOSSEINI gle-act operas: “Suor Angelica,” “Il Tabarro,” and will conduct excerpts from well-known operas by cian currently establishing a career in “Gianni Schicchi,” Mozart’s “Abduction from the Verdi, Puccini, Donizetti, Mascagni, Wagner, and Russia, will be the conductor. Seraglio,” “The Daughter of the Regiment” by “My composition was selected Donizetti, “Salome” by Richard Strauss, Verdi’s for inclusion in this program by “Otello,” “Faust” by Gounod, Puccini’s “The Girl Association Director Georgy Firtich. of the Golden West,” and ending with Wagner’s “Die Through this performance, he hopes Walküre.” to foster cultural understanding,” composer Mehdi Hosseini shared San Francisco Lyric Opera with The Epoch Times. Artistic director Barnaby Palmer will conduct a special gala performance called “Great Moments in On Baluch and Iranian Folklore Opera” on Saturday, Oct. 24, 2009, while the season In a special online interview, com- offi cially begins in March 2010 with “The Barber of poser Mehdi Hosseini explained that Seville” by Rossini. The fi nal production of the sea- Baluch is a name for a Persian eth- son is yet to be announced. nic group that inhabits a region in Southwest Asia. They speak their Berkeley Symphony own Balochi language. The source Berkeley Symphony will open its season on Oct. 15 materials for the composition are folk with “The Chairman Dances” by John Adams, West songs from two of the driest provinces Coast premiere of “Peregrinos” by Gabriela Lena in Iran—Sistan and Baluchestan. Frank, and Bartók’s “Concerto for Orchestra.” This Mehdi Hosseini began the Baluch concert marks the debut of Joana Carneiro as the new compositional process by transcrib- music director succeeding Kent Nagano, who held ing a recording made by a veteran this post for three decades. dunali (doneli) player, Master Shir Two other West Coast premieres are also being pre- Mohammad Spandar from the re- DRAWING ON TRADITION: Iranian composer Mehdi Hosseini, born in sented, which are Steven Stucky’s “Elegy” on Dec. NEW DIRECTOR: Joana Carneiro succeeds Kent gion of Baluchestan. 1979 in Theran, now lives and composes in St. Petersburg, Russia. 3, 2009 and Jörg Widmann’s “Con brio” on April 1, Nagano as music director of Berkeley Symphony. DAVID The dunali is an end-blown fl ute His music achieves a subtle fusion of contemporary composition and 2010. Although not a premiere of any kind, Esa-Pekka WEISS which is usually played solo. It is said ancient Persian musical traditions which can be heard in his quartets, Salonen’s “Five Images After Saphho” for soprano that some people go into a trance symphonies, and concertos. COURTESY: MEHDI HOSSEIN and chamber ensemble on Feb. 11, 2010 is another sig- when exposed to the sound of this nifi cant modern work included in the season. Bernstein, sung by soprano Hope Briggs, tenor Kalil rare musical instrument. In this par- While Berkeley Symphony is known primarily as a Wilson, bass Kirk Eichelberger, and the Oakland ticular recording, Spandar made In his music, Mehdi Hosseini Hosseini was already working as champion of new music on the West Coast, next sea- Symphony Chorus. use of a number of Magam: Liku, strives to explore the intersection of a composer with Iranian National son it will also perform standard symphonic works by Other season highlights include music from Delgani, Zuljalal-Guati, and some traditional Eastern music and neo- TV and other media corporations in Beethoven, Barber, Brahms, Sibelius, and Stravinsky. Armenia on Jan. 22, works by Ives, Duke Ellington, other famous songs from the region. contemporary musical language. He Tehran. To broaden his experience, and a world premiere commission by Rebeca Mauleón Magam (also spelled as a Mugham believes that a monodic system can the 30-year-old composer moved to California Symphony on Feb. 26, followed in March by accompaniment to a or Mugam) is very closely linked to be generally understood as an ex- the St. Petersburg Conservatory. He Music Director Barry Jekowsky will open the next screening of Buster Keaton’s silent fi lm “The General” the Persian musical tradition and perimental type of composition that was very satisfi ed with his studies and s e a s on of Wa l nut Cr e ek ’s C a l i for n i a Sy mphony on O c t. and the “Organ Symphony” by Saint-Saëns with or- represents a monodic music system, proposes a new view towards folk formed strong relationships with his 11, 2009, with a new work titled “Mercury Interlude” ganist Christoph Bull. similar to an Indian Raga. It is not music—a view that emphasizes the teachers. by young American composer Mason Bates, along A second world premiere commission will be pre- limited only to Iran but is used widely importance of the multiple sound He also came into contact with with Symphony No. 2 by Sibelius, Ravel’s “Mother sented on April 16, this time by composer Benedikt in the Middle East and Far East. forms used in this system as well as many foreign musicians—some Goose Suite,” and Rossini’s “William Tell Overture.” Brydern, along with Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto “I started to work on the Concerto the rich heritage of regional music. who had come to study at the St. The California Symphony will perform three other No. 1 with soloist Adam Neiman. Beethoven’s Ninth in February this year and fi nished it “When I compose, my task is to Petersburg Conservatory and oth- concert sets featuring Copland’s “Lincoln Portrait” Symphony will mark the season’s fi nal concert set in just three weeks ago—on the whole it fi nd the instruments which can be ers, to give concerts. Thus, Mehdi with narrator Will Durst in January, Bruch’s Violin May 2010. took about four months. But I have to designed to use microtones as real became friends with many skilled Concerto with soloist Chad Hoopes in March, and say that it took so long because I was function, not just as effect. For me, foreign musicians who regularly or- Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with soloist Sarina Peninsula Symphony working on two other projects at the instrument means color, and I need ganized concerts in the city and in Zhang in May 2010. Maestro Mitchell Sardou-Klein will open the same time.” all possible colors in my search. other countries. In St. Petersburg, the The season also includes symphonic works by Peninsula Symphony’s next season on Oct.
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