The concert of
Greek-Turkish Youth Orchestra
conducted by Işın Metin on Monday, July 12th
2010
at Ahmed Adnan Saygun Arts Center has been
cancelled.
Refunds are available at Biletix box offices.
Announcing the 24th
International Izmir Festival
TANGO
METROPOLIS
May 23, 2010, Sunday, 9.30
pm
Ahmed Adnan Saygun Arts Center
Tango Metropolis is a highly innovative tango
show created by Daniel Binelli, Pilar Alvarez,
and Claudio Hoffmann.
Set on the eve of the new century and looking
ahead to it, Tango Metropolis adds new musical
and choreographic forms of tango, dynamically
and theatrically expressed, to the themes of the
traditional repertoire. In the first part of the
show, Tango Metropolis presents a variety of
street characters emerging from the depths of
thenight driven by an intimate desire for
assertiveness in a hostile city. Besides by
vertigo, chaos, insecurity and a relentless
quest for hope, they dance with all the force,
vigour, expressiveness and mystery of
avant-garde music contained in the beat and
rhythm of Buenos Aires. Later, a succession of
humorous, nostalgic, sensual, and saucy scenes
looks back over the styles, feelings,
atmospheres, and colors of a hundred years of
existence. The hippodrome, the races and the
Jockey Club provide the setting for
unforgettable moments played with irrepressible
humour, flexibility, and magic by their main
characters, in a tribute to the favorite
personages and musical themes of the salons of
yesteryear.
In the second half, Tango Metropolis and its
cosmopolitan streets portray love stories,
encounters and farewells filled with intense
moments of passion and seduction, using the
language of tango. The bandoneon, the instrument
that symbolizes the tango and permeates its
history, delivers a stream of harmonies and
sounds which propel the bodies into a maelstrom
of dance where the artists can express the whole
range of their interpretative skills.
DETAIL
“Müsennâ” conquered France
“Müsennâ”, the highly acclaimed show of the 22nd
International Izmir Festival, was the favourite
of the “2009 Turkish Season in France” events.
“Müsennâ” production that was performed with the
support of İzmir Foundation for Culture, Arts
and Education, collaboration of İzmir and
İstanbul French Cultural Centers under direction
of Çimen Seymen, made the opening of
Sablé–sur-Sarthe Baroque Music Festival within
the scope of the Turkish Season in France with
its novel stage interpretation. After the show
Le Monde Newspaper said “The show enchanting the
audience with music, dance, pantomime, shadow
games which must absolutely be seen..” for
Müsennâ.
The Minister of Culture and Communication of
France Frédéric Mitterand, Ankara Ambassador of
France Bernard Emié, Chairmen of the Turkish
Season Necati Utkan and Henri de Castries (Group
AXA) and the general curator Görgün Taner (İKSV)
attended the magnificent première that received
many more praises along with Le Monde. Müsennâ
which represents the court and mass
entertainments the French ambassador who came to
İstanbul in the 17th century has seen, also
gained the appreciation of the French Prime
Minister François Filon and President Abdullah
Gül as the most impressive Turkish Season
Project in France.
Müsennâ will open the gates of the east
In “Müsennâ”, of which the Project design and
direction belongs to the estimable musicologist
and soprano Çimen Seymen, the 17th century
European and Ottoman Music Research and
Application Group La Turchescha played Baroque
Music, and Cevher-i Müzik Group directed by
Hakan Cevher played Ottoman Music. Soprano Çimen
Seymen and songster Tolga Meriç sang the songs.
The musicians of Müsennâ show will give a
concert named “The Gates of the East” on
November 24, 2009 in the halls of Paris National
Library. On the occasion of this concert, Ali
Ufkî’s manuscript of 350 years preserved in
Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris will
be exhibited to public for the first time. In
the concert, Turchescha and Cevher-i Musiki
groups will perform the other works from Ali
Ufki manuscipt “Mecmua” of which transciption
was made by Prof.Dr. Hakan Cevher, and the
European works of the same epoch under the
conduct of Çimen Seymen.
After this concert, Müsennâ will go on a tour to
various cities of France. When it returns to
Paris on March 29, it will realize the final
show of the Turkish Season in the hall of the
llegendary Theater Bouffes du Nord.
“Müsennâ”
This show for which the “Müsennâ” technique
which is a style of writing of the same text
reciprocally from left to right and vice versa
in Otoman calligraphy is the source of
inspiration, reflects the 17th century
festivities and festivals of the Topkapı Palace,
French and Venetian palaces, embassies in
İstanbul and cosmopolitan cities.
The Polish musician Albert Bobowski, who was
re-named Ali Ufkî in the service of Sultan
Mehmed IV, recorded all the musical pieces that
he heard in İstanbul and the Topkapı Palace.
This compilation which is the witness to the
17th century Otoman music and was prepared in
the European musical note system is presented in
comparison with the music and poetry corpuses at
the European palaces in the Müsennâ show. The
stage setting in the form of reflections of
music and singing in the mirror is activated
with baroque dances and Turkish Folk Dances,
starting from the iconographic and written
resources of the period and illustrated with
visual arts. And a narrator who watches and
interprets the transitions of musical and
dancing scenes sets us off a journey to the East
with the texts of travellers.
Headings from other comments for Müsennâ
Les Echos newspaper “A wind of joy of life and
freedom was blowing at this night… There was a
dazzling dynamic with the stage design inspired
by the palaces, dancers, singers and wonderful
costumes of the acrobats…”
Le Figaro Magazine “a temporal, unexpected show
which encourages, revives, solaces the audience”
ResMusica “starting from the first moments,
Çimen Seymen’s voice is enchanting, baroque and
traditional instruments harmonize with each
other magnificently…. This show is like a mirror
with golden reflection… If it comes to your
city, certainly go, you will live fantastic
moments”
