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The Yunus Emre Oratorio Will Now Be Performed In Turkey
After its performances in Washington and New York, the first oratorio ever composed in Turkish music, will now be performed for the first time by the Amercian Jonathan Griffth Singers who will sing this unique work in Turkish language in Turkey for the first time and will be accompanied by the Presidential Symphony Orchestra and the Cemal Reshit Rey Orchestra.
The International Organization of Turkic Culture
(TURKSOY)which organized performances of the Yunus Emre Oratorio in the United
States of America last year to convey the timeless, humanist and universal
message of tolerance of Yunus Emre to the world, is now preparing itself to
present this impressive oratorio to art lovers of Turkey on the occasion of the
20th Anniversary of its Foundation.
The series of concerts which will take place in Turkey with the contribution of the Jonathan Griffith Singers gathering 80 American artists, accompanied by the Presidential Symphony Orchestra and the Cemal Reshit Rey Orchestra of Turkey, will start in June 2013 in Eskisehir, the Cultural Capital of the Turkic World 2013, and go on with performances which will take place in Ankara and Istanbul.
Inspired by the performances realized in New York, the concerts in Turkey will also feature the World Premiere of a work by Christopher Tin, holder of the Grammy Award, who composed a piece of music on Yunus Emre’s poem entitled "Haktan Gelen Şerbeti” (The Sweet and Holy Beverage) and offered it to TURKSOY.
The Jonathan Griffith Singers who rehearsed for several weeks in order to perform the Yunus Emre Oratorio in Turkish language thus have also had the opportunity to get acquainted with Turkish, Turkey and especially Yunus Emre before and after the concert. Within the framework of this project, many of the choir’s singers who are rather excited about the tour it will be realizing in Turkey, will be visiting the country for the first time ever.
The Yunus Emre Oratorio composed by Ahmet Adnan Saygun which is the first and most impressive one of its kind in Turkish music, will be performed under the Jonathan Griffith Singers’ famous conductor from New York. The Jonathan Griffith Singers will be accompanied by the Presidential Symphony Orchestra under its conductor Rengim Gokmen. The concerts will take place on June 3rd, 2013 in the Concert Hall of the Osman Gazi University of Eskisehir, then on June 04th, 2013 in the Concert Hall of the Presidential Symphony Orchestra of Turkey in Ankara, and finally on June 07th, in the Cemal Reshit Rey Concert Hall in Istanbul.
For invitations to the concerts in Ankara and Eskisehir please call 0312 491 0100 (international: +90.312.490 01 00).
Tickets for the concerts in
Istanbul can be purchased under the following link:
http://www.biletix.com/etkinlik/PKYUN/ISTANBUL/tr
TheYunus Emre Oratorio
The Yunus Emre Oratorio composed by Ahmet Adnan Saygun which is the first and most impressive one of its kind in Turkish music, was performed for the first time in 1946 in Ankara. A year later, it was performed twice in Paris. In 1958, it was then performed in New York under the famous conductor Leopold Stokowski on the occasion of the Anniversary of the Foundation of the United Nations.
After 54 years, thanks to TURKSOY, this unique work was then performed in the Lincoln Center in New York and in the Strathmore Music Center in Washington in 2012, thus bringing once again Yunus Emre’s universal message of tolerance to the United States of America.
TURKSOY – The International Organization of Turkic Culture
The International Organization of Turkic Culture (TURKSOY) is an organization which works for the establishment of friendly relations among Turkic speaking peoples and countries with a view to unveiling the common Turkic culture, language, history, art, traditions and customs, in order to develop and transmit them to future generations so that they can be preserved. TURKSOY was established upon signature of its founding agreement by the Ministers of Culture of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Turkey and Uzbekistan in Almaty on July 12th, 1993. Later on, the organization was joined by the Autonomous Republics of the Russian Federation Altai, Bashkortostan, Khakassia, Sakha Yakutia, Tatarstan, Tyva, Gagauzia (Moldova) and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus which hold an observer status. Today, the International Organization of Turkic Culture gathers 14 Turkic Republics.