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Behnam Nateghi's New York Magazine on Radio Azadi
Updated March 25, 2000
The Iranian
Veteran broadcaster/journalist Behnam
Nateghi produces a 40-Minute weekly show on Radio Free Europe/Radio
Liberty (Radio Azadi). The program is broadcast to Iran out of Prague.
You can listen to the archived versions of this weekly program by using
the following links.
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Saturday, March 18, 2000
1. Major Iranian carpet importers in New York comment about the lifting
of the sanctions on carpets and how Iran can regain the US market for
its carpets.
2. Discovering a new Persian poet. Ms. Maryam Hooleh, a 23-year old
poet is introduced to New York audiences in a special video. She is being
compared to Forough Farrokhzad by those who believe they have found a shining
new talent in her.
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Saturday, March 11, 2000
1. Majid Majidi's movie, The Color of Paradise opens in the US. We have
a look at the movie and American critics reaction to the movie.
2. Exhibition of contemporary and avant-garde art at PS1. Called Greater
New York, the show is the first joint exhibit organized by Museum of Modern
Art and PS1 organization since their merger in 1999.
3. Persian music concert by Dastan Ensemble in New York's Symphony Space.
We have sampling of the music and short comments by Hamid Motebassen, the
composer. We discuss their work in an interview with ethnomusicologist,
Dr. Gholamhossein Jannati-Attai.
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Saturday, March 4, 2000
1. A report of the opening of the exhibition of a lifetime's work by
modern Iranian artist Monir Shahroudi Farmanfarmaian, whose use of mirrors
and glass and other traditional Persian architectural materials and designs
brought her fame in the 1970's western art world. She was also a major
collector of Persian folk art. The show was held at New York's Center for
Iranian Modern Art (CIMA).
2. A report on the performance of Kurt Weill's long lost and now revived
opera, The Eternal Road with 150 German musicians and singers at the Brooklyn
Academy of Music.
3. Interview and musical samples from Ms. Sussan Deihim, whose new CD,
entitled Madman of God was just released in Europe by Crammed Disc, a prominent
Belgian label for new music.
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Saturday, February 25, 2000
1. Honoring Dr. Hadi Shafaiyeh, the father of Iran's modern photography
at a night organized in celebration of the publication of Daftar Honor's
special issue on Shafaiyeh. We have an interview with Defter Honor founding
editor, Bijou Assadipour, and we hear from poet and critic, Dr. Raze Bargain
and Had Shafaiyeh himself, who tells us how he photographed Nima Yooshij.
2. Brazilian modern dance choreographer, Deborah Colder and her acrobatic
dances on a big steel wheel.
3. A report on the movie, Holy Smoke, the latest work by Australian
director, Jane Campaign.
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Saturday, February 19, 2000
1. Interview with Mr. Raze Derakhshani, musician in New York, about
his work, his "tar" which has 8 strings and his collaborations
with American musicians.
2. In memory of the contemporary poet, Mr. Nadir Naderpour, who died
yesterday in Los Angeles
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February 5, 2000
1. Interview with Prof. Peter Chelkowski, about his presentation last
Sunday in Metropolitan Museum of Art about
Nezami. He also talks about his visit to Iran last summer, where he
saw new performances of Tazieh and comments on the advancement on Tazieh
and research on Tazieh in the past 25 years.
2. Richard Serra's gigantic steel sculpture installation and a few other
current contemporary art exhibitions in the new, huge Chelsea area gallery
spaces.. leading to a news item about the upcoming Whitney Biennial showing
the work of Iranian artist, Shirin Neshat. 3. A concert of the works of
Ms. Faranghiz Ali-zadeh, the Azerbaijani composer, who finds new ways to
use Azerbaijani mogham music in western style new music. We hear a cello
and piano duet and an orchestral piece, both faintly reminding us of Iranian
music.
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January 29, 2000
1. A report on the movie Topsy Turvey.
2. Interview with Hamid Ladjevardi, Director of Baltic Fund, about the
exhibition of Baltic contemporary art in New York's National Arts Club.
3. Keyhan Kalhour and Ardavan Kamkar in a concert in New York's Symphony
Space: includes interview with Kalhour and a sampling of the live music
played at the concert.
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January 22, 2000
1. Distribution of popular music in digital form on the internet, MP3,
the copyright issue, stats, etc. with a sampling of songs available on
the Internet through internet radios and download sites.
2. An interview with Iranian author, Salar Abdoh, whose book, The Poet
Game is published by St. Martin's Picador imprint. The book is a spy novel:
an Iranian working for a secret department of the Intelligence ministry
comes to New York to stop a terrorist group connected with another branch
of the ministry. This is Mr. Abdoh's first interview with a Persian speaking
radio about this book.
3. Contemporary dance choreographer, Mark Morris -- a review of his
show, with some music from the show.
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January 15, 2000
1. Interview with Leila Taghinia-Milani, gallery owner and fine art
consultant, who during the past 20 years have discovered and introduced
to American market a few top Iranian artists. She has also represented
major Iranian contemporary artists, such as Zendehroudi, Arabshahi and
the like. In the interview, we discuss the status of Iranian artists in
New York art market.
2. A discussion about the ramifications of the merger between America
Online and Time Warner.
3. A report on the movie, Titus, based on a play by William Shakespeare,
about atrocities of war and revenge.
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January 8, 2000
1. An interview and a musical sampling of the work of Sassan Ghahri
an Iranian composer and producer of several kinds of electronic and ambient
music, made with eastern traditional music samples. He has produced, composed,
made or collaborated on more than 80 CD's in the past 15 years. About 20
CD's of his own music and his collaborations with others. He runs his own
independent record label, Baraka Foundation, which is distributed in the
US by Caroline Records. In the piece, we re-assemble a piece made with
a sample from Persian tar. A visit to New York Museum of Modern Art's major
exhibit, Modern Starts, about the first 40 years of modern art.
3. A report on the documentary by Errol Morris about Fred Leuchter,
an expert in execution devices who became involved with Revisionists who
deny the holocaust.
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December 25, 1999
1. Exhibition of Body Art: Marks of Identity, in New York Museum of
Natural History
2. Retrospective of Issey Miyake, Avant-Garde Japanese fashion designer
and artist in Ace Gallery.
3. Sweet & Lowdown, the new Woody Allen movie, with Sean Penn, about
a Jazz guitarist in the 1930's.
4. Sussan Deyhim, in concert at Knitting Factory: A radio documentary
about the work of this sound innovator, singer and voice acrobat, with
an interview and music from her live show at Knitting Factory, as well
as a sampling of her recordings in the past 20 years.
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December 18, 1999
1. Choral music in New York at Christmas time: We visit three important
churches, as well as Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center for the 2,500
strong Sing-in of Handel's Messiah.
2. With Esmail Khoi, the contemporary poet in exile. Khoi gave us a
good interview. I also talked to Dr. Karimi-Hakkak, and there are three
poems, mixed with music. His poem about the Italian village, Borjo Verezzi,
complete with a piano piece played by Charles Mingus, the jazz genius,
and a lovely poem about M. R. Shajarian, with which we hear pieces of the
Abu Atta, played by M. R. Lotfi and M. R. Siavoush Shajarian.
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December 11, 1999
1. Lady of Persian Song, Delkash, reporting on Delkash's appearance
in a New York concert, includes interviews with Delkash, her musicians
and a sampling of her most famous songs, including a duet with Houshmand
Aghili.
2. Broadway's Tango Argentino
3. A report on the movie, Liberty Heights
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December 4, 1999
New York carpet merchants talk about the U.S. embargo
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