Aminollah Andre Hossein Persian Legend

Performed by Pianist Tara Kamangar
21 June 2009
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
http://www.tarakamangar.com

AMINOLLAH HOSSEIN was born in 1905 in Ashkabad, Iran. Shortly after his birth, his family moved to Russia, due to their persecution in Iran as members of the Baha'i faith. As a child, Hossein learned to play the tar (a traditional Iranian instrumenent similar to the lute) from his mother, and fell in love with music. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, Hossein moved to Germany (Stuttgart) to study medicine on the insistence of his father, and simultaneously studied the piano with Artur Schnabel. In 1927, he moved to Paris, where he was to remain for the rest of his life. He became the first Iranian to enter the Paris Conservatory, studying composition and orchestration under Paul Vidal.

Hossein's first work, his ballet "Toward the Light," was performed in 1938 at the Paris Opera House. His later ballets, "Persian Miniatures" and "Scheherezade" were choreographed by George Skibine, one of Diaghilev's dancers. His other orchestrated works include the Symphony of the Sands (1946), the Persepolis Symphony (1947), the Arya Symphony (1976), and three piano concertos. He also composed twenty film scores--mostly for films directed by his son, the famed French actor and director Robert Hossein—using the pseudonym "Andre Gosselain". He died in Paris in 1983.

This past year, Hossein's Persepolis Symphony was performed and recorded by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and several of Hossein's works for orchestra and voice were performed and recorded by the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic and the famed tenor Roberto Alagna. In addition, Hossein's orchestral works served as the music for a production of Ben-Hur directed by his son Robert Hossein, staged in Paris's main stadium and attended by 300,000 people over five nights. Hossein's orchestral works have been re-released on cd in the past decade, as well as excerpts from his film scores, which are heavily jazz-influenced.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Tara
• Kamangar
• Aminollah
• Andre
• Hossein
• Persian
• Iranian
• Piano
• Iran
• Music
• Classical
• Pianist

[donyayevaroone]

نمیدونم بعضی ها چرا حتما باید یه زر زیادی بزنن....اخه هیچی نگین روزتون شب نمیشه...؟؟؟

[Sorooshb]

Beautiful!

[omidfardayan]

بسیار زیبا بود ! ممنون خانم کمانگر ! ولی ای کاش همانطور که اجرایی زیبا و سنگینی داشتید ،لباستان هم به مانند اجرای تان سنگین می بود ! البته من با آزادی ی پوشش برای خانم ها هیچ مشکلی ندارم ولی پوشش سنگین را هم برای خانم ها و هم برای آقایان خصوصا در چنین محافلی مناسب تر می دانم ! به عقیده من یک هنرمند در هنگام اجرا در صحنه باید بیش از آنکه لباسش مورد توجه قرار گیرد،هنرش چشمها را خیره سازد ! ولی با این همه اینها، کارتان عالی بود ! بهتان تبریک می گویم از اینکه دنبال رو چنین هنر ارزشمندی هستید

[omidfardayan]

من بی نهایت امیدوارم که شاهد اجرای کارهای هنری ی تان در ایران آزاد مان در سال آینده باشم ! چرا که من به ظهور یک پیامبری جدید که به نجات مردم ما خواهد آمد، ایمان مطلق دارم و بسیار بسیار امیدوارهستم که او در پانزده شعبان در تابستان سال آینده،ظهور خواهد کرد و با ظهور خویش، ملت ما را از بند رها خواهد ساخت !

با امید و آرزوی برپایی ی انقلاب الهی در پانزده شعبان

موفق باشید !

امید فردایان

شنبه ۲۴ دی ماه ۱۳۹۰

[kouroshirani1960]

کاش اونجا بودم حیف

[Shapulak]

zani ba shokooh va panjehayi talayi

[paiaam]

ای کاش امین الله حسین هنوز زنده بود

من پسرش روبر رو هم خیلی دوست دارم

خدا کنه که یه روزی توی ایران ببینمش

[mfshs]

jesus! this is beautiful

[zarvargh]

Thank you Tara for introducing the works of Aminollah Andre Hossein in here. I never heard of him before today. I liked both the performance and music.

[kentani030]

@Amiramid karavan was a nazi by the way who became a party member because of his "career". at that time there were many jews in high positions in classical arts. jews out, karavan in. what a nice guy!

[roya1342]

Great performance! Thanks Dear Tara! Good luck :)