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A Master’s World
by Nazy Kaviani01-Feb-2012
Over the past weekend, I had the honor of talking with four-time Grammy nominated Kayhan Kalhor about his music, his life, and the current state of traditional Persian music, just before his trip to San Francisco to perform at the Herbst Theater on February 2, 2012. I would like to share what I learned with you. I took the photographs used for this photo essay during a performance he gave in Palo Alto along with Pezhham Akhavass last summer. Don’t miss Thursday night's performance! (Photos 2-5 and 29-30 are by Ali Boustan.)
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Great interview Nazy jan with Kayhan Kalhor
by Anahid Hojjati on Fri Feb 03, 2012 06:57 AM PSTvery informative. thanks for sharing.
Thank you!
by Nazy Kaviani on Thu Feb 02, 2012 07:35 PM PSTThank you for your kind comments.
Kayhan Kalhor has done so much to bring attention to our music and to the versatility of kamancheh. I leave a video for you of Kayhan Kalhor, sharing "his inspiration for writing 'Silent City,' a largely improvised piece for kamancheh, Western strings and percussion based an an altered A-minor scale, using Kurdish themes. In this interview, Kalhor discusses creating this piece for the Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma as a response to the destruction of the Kurdish city Halabjah under Saddam Hussein's regime. 'Silent City' is a meditation recreated with each performance."
Nice!
by Esfand Aashena on Thu Feb 02, 2012 06:59 AM PSTThere is a program in DC's Freer Gallery of Art on Sat Feb 4th (free) for Persian Classical Music: Hossein Alizadeh, tar and setar; Pejman Hadadi, percussion.
Everything is sacred
So true about orchestras and Persian music
by Ari Siletz on Thu Feb 02, 2012 01:08 AM PSTSo far no one has been able to make it really work with traditional Persian music, for the same reason chords are meaningless in this art form. Persian orchestrals are like Ansel Adams in color! "I can get—for me—a far greater sense of ‘color' through a well-planned
and executed black-and-white image than I have ever achieved with color
photography," he wrote in 1967.
Thanks
by shahireh sharif on Thu Feb 02, 2012 12:40 AM PSTHe'll be in Manchester soon.