Different Melodies from Different Lands

In this paper, I will try to explain a classical music concert which I went beginning of the fall term in the Albert Long Hall classical music concerts. This concert was an extremely wonderful; although I lose its program booklet, I want to mention all feeling which concert aroused on me.

To begin with, it was a multicultural performance which includes composers from Turkey, Azerbaijan and Russia. Although it is performed with only Turkish musicians, I could catch the cultural differences and interaction in the concert. However there were slide shows which support the cello and piano as a third element of the performance. The performers were Ozan Tunca and Zöhrap Adıgüzelzade. Ozan Tunca began its music life in 1984 in Hacettepe University State Conservatoire and in this performance, he played cello. The piano was played by Adıgüzelzade who is a professor in Eskişehir Anadolu University, he is also a piano virtuoso. As far as I know, they come together with some other performances, namely this is not their first work together.

As I mentioned above there were Turkish, Russian and Azerbaijani. They are Kamran İnce, Alexander Ğlazunov, Ahmet Adnan Saygun, Fikret Amirov, Kara Ebulfezoğlu Karayev ve Sergey Vasil'yevich Rachmaninov. İnce and Saygun are Turkish ones, former was born in 1960 and his compositions were performed by famous orchestras and the latter is an ethnomusicolog and named a state artist first in Turkey. Amirov and Karayev are Azerbaijani composers; former has compositions influenced by Azeri folk music and the latter made compositions which has a traditional impact and western style. Ğlazunov and Rachmaninov are Russian composers; former
grows in a family which is closely connected with music and he wrote several works in several genres, and the latter is most influential pianist in 20th century. Namely, in short all composers whose compositions performed in concert were successful ones in their country and they are also well-known around the world.

I was very curious before the concert began because I wondered how music from different cultures comes together, however I had been thinking that they were independent from each other and it is not so complementary performance, it will be pert by part, but the performance was not as the way I thought, the pieces were linked by the visual things.

In conclusion, I want to say this concert fly away me from the seat I sat. Too many times I found myself dreaming. The concert’s this impact on me aroused, I think mostly by the great performance of the performance.