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Notes from Persia
Michael Morgan, Conductor
March 14, 2008
Friday, 8:00pm,
Paramount Theatre, Oakland
Pre-concert talk starting
at 7:05PM by
Loris Tjeknavorian and John Kendall
Bailey
Program
Richard Strauss
Don
Juan (1889)
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Rhapsody on a Theme of
Paganini (1934)
Tara Kamangar,
piano
David Garner New Arrangements of
Persian Folk Songs
and Melodies
with Raeeka
Shehabi-Yaghmai, mezzo-soprano
Aminollah Hossein
Piano Concerto No. 2
(1946)
Tara
Kamangar, piano
Loris Tjeknavorian
Suite from the opera Rostam and
Sohrab (1985)
Ever since Western music was
introduced to Iran in the mid-nineteenth century, Iranian composers have
blended Western and Middle Eastern musical traditions. Due to the political
turmoil of the past century, these works are often difficult to obtain and are
thus rarely performed.
We'll devote the second half of our March
concert to music from Persia, featuring classical pianist Tara Kamangar, who is
currently at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She'll play the second piano
concerto of celebrated Persian composer Aminollah Hossein, whose music is full
of Persian melodies though he spent much of his life in exile.
Mezzo-soprano Raeeka Shehabi-Yaghmai will sing new arrangements by David
Garner of Persian folk songs and melodies .
In our own blending of
Western and Middle Eastern traditions, Ms. Kamangar will also perform
Rachmaninoff's brilliant Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini on the first half of
the program, and we'll open the program with Strauss' romantic tone poem for
orchestra, Don Juan .
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Concert
presented by
Mr. Tjeknavorian's travel generously sponsored by:
PERSIAN CENTER
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