Turkey News News Turkey » Music: Rice University and Asia Society Texas presents Performing Asia - Music of Turkey with Hoppa Project
Rice University presents Performing Asia - Music of Turkey with Hoppa Project, a Turkish music festival. The main events of the festival will take place September 15-16 and will include two concerts.
News Turkey » Music: A music school uniting Syrian and Turkish cultures survives the massive earthquake
GAZIANTEP, Turkey — When the powerful earthquake rocked her home in early February, 18-year-old Sidra Mohammed Ali woke up and thought of one thing: her music school — was it OK? The next day, as ...
News Turkey » Music: Third Annual Turkish Music Festival : Interconnected Cultures
Hoppa Project, directed Erberk Eryılmaz and Laura Krentzman, aims to promote music from Eastern Europe and the Middle East by performing the music of the region with a wide range of styles from folk ...
News Turkey » Music: A music school wants to revive Turkish and Syrian connections through song
Founded by refugee musicians, a music institute in Southern Turkey tries to revive forgotten Syrian classics and integrate Turkish and Syrian cultures with music the two have shared for centuries.
News Turkey » Music: Out of the Roma Villages of Turkey, Clarinet Reigns Beyond Its Traditions
You cannot be modern by forgetting what is from you and adapting the other to yourself. Identities should not be deleted in this way. The clarinet, foundational for jazz from Sidney Bechet unto Eric ...
News Turkey » Music: Review – The Rough Guide to the Music of Turkey
The 500-year reign of the Ottoman Empire was the most pervasive — and progressive — influence over Central Asia, Eastern Europe and the upper Arab peninsula. Though the dissolution of the empire and ...
News Turkey » Music: Turkish Court Music and the Kanun
Scott Yoo learns about the Turkish kanun and about what court music in the country sounded like. Kanun, yes, Turkish musical instrument. Okay. And do you change the tuning with those — Yes. These are ...
News Turkey » Music: Fifth Turkish Music Festival: 'Sounds of Anatolia'
Asia Society Texas, American Turkish Association-Houston, and Hoppa Project present Sounds of Anatolia, from the fifth annual Turkish Music Festival, a multi-day musical event dedicated to sharing a ...
News Turkey » Music: Famed Turkish pianist, composer Timur Selçuk dies at 74
On November 6, Turkish pianist, composer, musician and conductor Timur Selçuk passed away due to a heart attack. He was 74. The son of Münir Nurettin Selçuk, an important composer and singer of ...
News Turkey » Music: A music school wants to revive Turkish and Syrian connections through song
This is a 500-year-old song that carries both Turkish and Arabic elements. UNIDENTIFIED GROUP: (Singing in non-English language). CHANG: It's being taught in southern Turkey by Syrian classical ...