Silk Road Project: Kayhan Kalhor on "Silent City"
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Uploaded by silkroadproject on Aug 24, 2011
Iranian kamancheh master and composer Kayhan Kalhor shares 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.
"Silent City" was made possible by a grant from the Fromm Music Foundation and was first performed in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on December 20, 2005, by the Silk Road Ensemble, artists in residence at Harvard University.
Watch the last movement of "Silent City" performed by the Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma at http://youtu.be/s804M9uGiAM.
For more on the Silk Road Ensemble and the Silk Road Project, visit http://silkroadproject.org.
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Master piece,,
Sadegh1225 1 month ago
Nice work, sound and presentation!
goran2011a 6 months ago