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Loki offers updates on the drama at WCPE-FM and the Cleveland Institute of Music, shares his dialogue with June Carryl, the writer behind a new opera dedicated to the life of Oluwatoyin Salau, and speaks to the violence in the Middle East. North Carolina Radio Station Won’t Ban Met Opera Broadcasts After All Carlos Kalmar Put on Leave of Absence by Cleveland Institute of Music June Carryl "Say Her Name" by Alysia Lee The Story of Oluwatoyin Salau ★ Support this podcast ★
New Classical Tracks with Julie Amacher
2023-05-17 07:00:00
Duration (h:m:s): 40:44
Mehmet Ali Sanlikol and A Far Cry — A Gentleman of Istanbul (Crier) controls src="https://play.publicradio.org/unreplaced_ua/o/minnesota/classical/programs/new_classical_tracks/2023/05/17/new_classical_tracks_2023_05_17_new-classical-tracks-Mehmet_Sanlikol_20230517_128.mp3"> New Classical Tracks - Mehmet Ali Sanlikol by Mehmet Ali Sanlikol is a Turkish American composer and multi-instrumentalist who grew up surrounded by Western classical piano music. Then, he discovered jazz. He moved to Boston to study at the Berklee College of Music. And today, he’s a professor at the New England Conservatory. His life-changing journey comes to light in his new recording with the chamber orchestra A Far Cry, A Gentleman of Istanbul.“I came back to my roots seven years after moving to Boston,” he says. “When I reconnected with my culture. I realized that I was self-alienated, self orientalism. It was a very important moment. It took about 10 years for me to come out of it.“What I mean by that is I started picking up several traditional musical instruments, studying them in addition to piano and singing professionally in traditional classical Turkish style. It was around 2011 when I relaunched my career as a composer and jazz musician. I had developed a more confident and unique voice as a composer.”How did you come up with A Gentleman of Istanbul? “It wasn't that difficult for me to think about a theme because right then, Donald Trump had come forward with his Muslim Ban. It wasn't in response because almost everyone I knew was arguing. What surprised me was how many people out there looking to defend Muslims happened to be putting out images that were also stereotypes. “This just kept hitting me one after the other. They once said, ‘Come on, this is not right. This is reductionism.’ Islamic geography is huge, from Morocco to Indonesia. It's a huge religion, and you're reducing that culture to just the mosque and the headscarf?“I said, ‘Let me show you cosmopolitanism within Islam.’ I went to this fantastic Ottoman intellectual Muslim traveler from mid-17th-century Istanbul. His name is Evliya Çelebi. I thought if I picked several excerpts from his traveling, I might be able to show the kind of cosmopolitanism I rarely see. Would his ideas of Islam be accepted now? “I think those kinds of attitudes still exist. However, he was devout, but at the same time, he had a lot of room for all kinds of Sufi dervishes, too. That's the cosmopolitanism that I'm talking about. It's striking, especially considering this is a 17th-century travelogue.” How have you created music that blends traditional Turkish Western classical jazz?“First, I selected four different sections out of the travelogue. The first one was the clocks and bell towers of Vienna. That first movement is a little bit more classical, if you will. I am playing the oud as the featured soloist — the middle of the first movement follows the sonata form. In the middle of that, there is a fugue. There is a sense of Vienna that I found different ways to express. “In the second movement, where he talks about the death of an Ottoman sultana, he becomes melancholic, dramatic and Homeric. I thought about Istanbul and the kind of violet or purplish tones you see that get reflected on the Bosporus Strait right around sunset. I imagine crossing the Bosporus with a ferry at that hour and seeing the seagulls fly before the Hagia Sophia or Blue Mosque. I had these images, and then I thought, ‘That's jazz.’ I said, ‘I'm going to score a jazz ballad.’ “The third movement is the funniest passage, because he says he sees two Bektashi Sufi dervishes, an order from central Turkey. One is riding a rhinoceros, and the other is on an animal with horns by the ears. I was like, ‘What's going on?’ It was so entertaining. When I go back to that, it puts a smile on my face, and it's fantastic. It's like a passage out of Star Wars, right?” Watch nowTo hear the rest of my conversation, click on the extended interview above, or download the extended podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts.ResourcesMehmet Ali Sanlikol and A Far Cry — A Gentleman of Istanbul (Amazon)Mehmet Ali Sanlikol (official site)A Far Cry (official site)
Founded in 2020, the Black Opera Alliance has continued to stake its claim on arts activism, with the organization both speaking up for Black professionals in opera and speaking against institutions in opera that maintain the status quo. Among BOA's Leadership Council members is soprano Jayme Alilaw, who joins Garrett to talk about art, activism, and accountability. Scott honors Annie Lennox in the second movement, and offers his thoughts on dealing with hecklers in arts spaces. Both Scott and Garrett revisit the conversation surrounding the controversial Emmett Till opera, and spend the weekly TRILLOQUY responding to a UCLA job posting that offered zero pay. Playlist: Bob Dylan - "The Death of Emmett Till" Buskaid Soweto String Ensemble - "Sunrise" Edgard Varese - "Ionisation" Chen Gang and He Zhanhao - "Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto" (perf. Hsinchu City Youth Chinese Orchestra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu5XohUR3Pg&t=335s) Eurythmics - "Sweet Dreams" Annie Lennox - "Little Bird" Gladys Knight & The Pips - "Midnight Train to Georgia" Florence Price - "Night" (perf. Jayme Alilaw and B.E. Boykin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_Rh9G8V9CQ) Sergei Prokofiev - "Romeo and Juliet" (perf. USC Symphony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8pyvaVkKT8) More: Jayme Alilaw, soprano: https://www.jayme-alilaw.com The Black Opera Alliance: https://www.blackoperaalliance.org US House Passes CROWN Act: https://www.npr.org/2022/03/18/1087661765/house-votes-crown-act-discrimination-hair-style Downbeat (Whoopi Goldberg on natural hair): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJq93OIIDAI&t=404s Composer Mary D. Watkins & Librettist Clare Coss Respond to Criticism of ‘Emmett Till’: https://operawire.com/composer-mary-d-watkins-librettist-clare-coss-respond-to-criticism-of-emmett-till/ WDAV-FM Makes History: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/entertainment/arts-culture/article259426884.html?fbclid=IwAR2KP-_v892bJt4kK8Y2zG3WU_IRM9flceVi0HSFoqbzQ4W8ThhDBhVSe9Q Metropolitan Opera to Ban Heckler from Future Performances: https://operawire.com/metropolitan-opera-to-Ban-heckler-from-future-performances/?fbclid=IwAR2NTVgqLR6eLpSwgHdhLOQojaPhe87dM_C2I5gz12wbeRS0AIibxoR5zY0 UCLA Pummeled Over Adjunct Job Without Pay: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/03/21/ucla-criticized-advertising-adjunct-job-without-pay
Today Andrew speaks with French singer, composer, and harpist Laura Perrudin about the pressure mounting towards the French government and the national train service, the SNCF, to change the Ban against musical instruments on Intercity and TGV services in the country which has been strictly enforced since January 1st 2021 and what you can do to help her collective make it easier for musicians travelling by rail in the country.Sign the petition: https://chng.it/GR2rTWg8BPRead more about the situation (in French)https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2021/07/25/musique-pour-les-artistes-prendre-le-train-avec-de-grands-instruments-est-devenu-plus-stressant-que-de-se-produire-sur-scene_6089476_3232.htmlhttps://www.diapasonmag.fr/a-la-une/peut-on-voyager-avec-son-instrument-de-musique-en-train-33407https://www.francemusique.fr/emissions/reportage/reportage-du-jeudi-06-mai-2021-94595Contact Us: [email protected] Links:https://www.getsl.ink/survivingclassicalmusicMake a One-Time Donation:https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=A9Q8UCN4RHBFQor Andrew BurnIBan: CH97 0900 0000 2506 2331 4 Support the show (https://patreon.com/survivingclassicalmusic)
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