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Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol

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Location
Belmont, MA
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Project Title
DEVRAN: Music of Islam, Turkey & Renaissance Europe
Fiscal Year Awarded
2017
Grant or Program
Creative City Boston - Artist Grant
Grant Amount
$10,000
  • November 9, 2017 | 7:30 pm | Performance at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory
    30 Gainsborough St, Boston, MA 02115
  • November 12, 2017 | 2:00 pm Performance at First Church of Roxbury
    10 Putnam St. Roxbury, MA 02119

Turkish-American composer Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol leads a musical program connecting diverse people and cultures. In response to the stereotyping of Muslims in today’s politics, Sanlıkol employs music to bring together cultural expressions of Islam and Europe, highlight the diversity of Boston’s Muslim community, and further conversation among Muslim and non-Muslim Bostonians. The project’s centerpiece is DEVRAN, Sanlıkol’s unique new intercultural choral work combining Muslim texts, Renaissance choral style, and Middle Eastern elements into an artistic whole.

For more information visit: www.sanlikol.com 

Follow Mehmet on Facebook: www.facebook.com/mehmetalisanlikol/

 

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