A music book is unveiled / American and Iranian artists collaborate

According to the Fars News Agency’s music correspondent, the book “Symphonies and Concertos by Dmitry Shestakovich” written by David Herowitz and Amir Hossein Ramezani will be unveiled on Friday, November 20, at Roodaki Hall in Tehran.

The unveiling ceremony of the book “Symphonies and Concertos by Dmitry Shestakovich” written by David Herowitz and Amir Hossein Ramezani will be held at 5:00 PM on Friday, November 20, at Rudaki Hall in Tehran.

Nader Mashayekhi (composer and conductor), Mohammad Reza Tafazli (composer, faculty member of Tehran University of Arts), Arman Norouzi (composer and university lecturer) and Amir Hossein Ramezani (author of the book) are among the artists who spoke about this research work during the ceremony. they do. Meanwhile, pianist Soroush Sadeghi and cellist Yasman Koozegar will also perform works by Dmitry ستstakovi..

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The book is co-authored by David Herwitz (musicologist, music critic and professor at Brooklyn College of Music) and Amir Hossein Ramezani (composer, researcher and lecturer at the University and Conservatory of Music) and was recently published by Nay and Ney. The English version of the book will soon be published by Amadeus Publishing in the United States and Canada.

The present book is a collection of all شstakovich symphonies and concertos that describe, study and analyze them in perfect harmony with the audio version of each work. In this way, in order to better understand the content, it uses more than 1200 summarized samples of the worksheet.

The book is divided into four sections: “The Musical Language of Shestakovich”, “Works of the Early Period (1924-1933)”, “Works of the Middle Ages (1935-1953)” and “Works of the Late Period of Shestakovich (1971-1975)” in 652 pages. , Tries to discover the meanings of ستstakovich’s works through musical language and musical discourse.

Dmitry Shastakovich (1906-1975) is undoubtedly one of the most prominent Russian composers of the twentieth century. A composition that owes much to the musical heritage of historians such as Bach and Mahler. One whose goal is to keep the traditions alive and, of course, to leave them in place.

A composer whose unique musical stamp and expression, stings and allusions to his music, marches and parodies, and perhaps most importantly the famous motif derived from his name DSCH (R, Meibmel, Do, C) reminds serious audiences of classical music of the oppression and hardships of the twentieth century. Is. Someone who experienced a tumultuous period in his personal life and musical life, and the result of these efforts is the creation of fifteen symphonies, fifteen string quartets, six concertos, several operas, film music and dozens of works of piano, vocals, orchestra, etc., many of which are still part of Significant repertoire of top performers and orchestra conductors around the world.

It should be noted that all these works were created by a composer who did not escape the bite of the former Soviet Stalinist regime. A composer whose words, although empty of protest due to the inevitable consequences, by writing satirical music, according to the approval of everyone, hid his opposition behind the melodies of his music, which means: protesting against the misfortunes of the time of music.

The unveiling ceremony of the book “Dmitry Shestakovich Symphonies and Concertos” will be held at 5:00 PM on Friday, November 20, in accordance with the health protocols in Rudaki Hall in Tehran. In addition, all parts of the ceremony will be presented to the audience live from the Instagram page of “Hafdang” media.

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