The idea of  the show is not only for the audience to vote for their favorites, but also to teach these talents how to best reach their highest potential.

The whole application process was online, and all Persian speaking talents had the opportunity to send in their video/application form without having to travel for audition.

The series started filming at the end of August in London and is now broadcasting every week across Europe and the Middle East on Manoto TV in November.

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Eight lucky contestants made it onto the show. Googoosh and her team of experts will then mentor them before setting a series of challenges. Only one winner will be chosen by the public vote, and will win $10,000 US!

Six of lucky contestants: Kasra, Soroush, Forough, Sara, Arsalan, Amir

Whether you prefer to sing Rap, Pop, R’n'B, or Rock song, whatever genre it doesn’t matter! Let Googoosh personally help you fulfil your dreams.

Music Academy Panel: Babak, Googoosh, Homan

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فروغ- بیا بنویسیم

Googoosh Music Academy on Facebook

Manoto1 TV can be reached on:

Satellite – Hotbird 9
Transponder – 6
Downlink signal frequency – 11317 MHz
Downlink Polarisation – Vertical
Symbole Rate: 27500

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Saturday May 8, 2010
Mexican Heritage Theater 6:30PM

Concert of Dance, Music & Poetry from Central Asia and the Silk Road.

Fun for the whole family!! A stellar cast of Bay Area world dance and music groups, a Silk Road bazaar, Art Exhibit, and many special guests.

Dance, Music & Poetry of Iran, Afghanistan, Turkey, China, Tajikistan, Indonesia and more…

Mexican Heritage Theater
1700 Alum Rock Ave
San Jose, CA [map it!]

Silk Road Bazaar Arts, Crafts and cultural exhibits @ 6:30pm, Concert starts @ 8pm

Featuring concert performances by Ballet Afsaneh – the Bay Area’s critically acclaimed Silk Road performance ensemble, Yore Turkish Folk Dance Ensemble, Chinese Performing Arts of America, Wan-Chao Dance, Gadung Kasturi Balinese Dance & Music, Shahrzad Dance Company, Niosha Dance Academy. Musical guests include: Homayun Sakhi and Salar Nader Afghan Ensemble, Persian music by Neema Hekmat – Pourya Khademi, Salar Khoshfahm, Salokhiddin Fakhriev Tajik/Uzbek percussion, celebrated guest artist Moses Sedler on cello, vocalists Bon Singer of Ya Elah, and Sonja Drakulich of Stellamara…. many more!

Tickets: $18 General, $12 Children & Seniors, $25 Sponsor
By Phone: (800) 838-3006 (24/7 Hot Line)
Online: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/105709

Artists Websites:
Homayoun Sakhi

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Salar Nader

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Moses Sedler

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Pourya Khademi

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Sonja Drakulich of Stellamara

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Yore Turkish Folkdance Ensemble

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Wan-Chao Dance

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Gadung Kasturi, Balinese Dance & Music

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Chinese Performing Arts of America

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Niosha Dance Academy

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Shahrzad Dance Company

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Bon Singer – of Ya Elah

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Ballet Afsaneh

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Produced by the Afsaneh Art & Culture Society in association with Yore Turkish Folkdance, Chinese Performing Artists of America, Wan Chao Chang Dance Company, Shahrzad Dance Company, Niosha Dance Academy, the Arts Council Silicon Valley, and the Office of Cultural Affairs of the City of San Jose.

Information on the Ballet Afsaneh Website

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Golha Radio Program, broadcast from 1956 through 1979, covered the entire history of classical as well as contemporary Persian poetry, giving marvelous expression to the whole gamut of traditional Persian music and poetry.

Digital archiving of all the Golha radio programs is being conducted for access by academic researchers of Persian music and literature and the public at large.

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The Golha Project has been supported by the British Library Endangered Archives Program, the Music Department of the School of Oriental and African Studies University of London (SOAS), The British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS), the Iran Heritage Foundation (IHF) and the Parsa Foundation.

Golha Project Management by
Jane Lewisohn: jane@golha.co.uk
Aydin Azizzadeh: aydin@golha.co.uk

Following presentation is from Jadid OnLine on Golha Project  - Persian with English subtitle

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The music and literary repertoire of the programs known generally as Golha, ‘Flowers [of Persian Poetry and Song]‘ was a series of weekly radio programs. The foremost and best musicians, vocalists, literary critics, poets and announcers performed on the programs, thus providing a unique – and still the best and most poetically diverse-recorded collection of the classical corpus of Persian music and poetry made in the 20th century.

Rahi Mo"ayyeri and Davud Pirnia at Maydan-i Arg Radio Studio Tehran

This project proposes to construct a digital archive of the series for access by academic researchers of Persian music and literature and the public at large. The first phase of the project, which was to compile and digitize a complete archive of all the Golha radio programs, was completed in 2008 by Jane Lewisohn under the auspices and support of the Endangered Archives Program of the British Library where a copy of the complete digital archive is currently kept in the National Sound Archive World Music Section there. Iran Heritage Foundation will be involved in the second phase of the project which aims to create a searchable, relational database of the entire archive including bio-bibliographical data on the performers and authors, musical notation for the songs, transcription of the poetry and the commentaries included in the programs. This database will be made available over the internet by means of a purpose-built website linked exclusively to the IHF website.

Adib Khwansari, Mortaza Mahjubi, and Marziya at Maydan-i Arg Radio Studio, Tehran.

The archive as a whole will be a unique cultural resource which can both be enjoyed by students and lovers of Persian culture and also used as a teaching tool for both Persian music and Persian Literature

Project Duration
3 Years – 30% of the work already completed and fully operational by September 2011

Golha References

Flowers of Persian Song and Music: Davud Pirnia and the Genesis of the Golha Programs (PDF by Jane Lewisohn)

SOAS The Gulha Programs CD cover and booklet (PDF)

Future site of Golha project database

Sample Music from Javad Maroufi

Radio Golha

jadidonline.com Golha Program

Golha Project CDs can be ordered from the SOAS Bookshop soon.

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Song: Change
Lyrics written by: Michelle Montezeri
Arrangements by: Michelle Montezeri

Michelle-Montezeri

Close your eyes and dream
Go to sleep it is not real
Where will you go
when hope has left
Isnt someone caring
caring

Try to change but youre not strong
Someone tell us whats wrong
Please tell us whats wrong

When you struggle and you fall
Save yourself from it all
Have the strength to still believe
After all your sorrow and grief

Dont give up you get there soon
Youll reach the stars and the moon
Youll do the things you never knew how to do

Reach to me and Ill be there
Dont you worry Ill take care off you

Dont give up you get there soon
Reach the stars and the moon.

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If you like to like to know Michelle Montezeri better, please visit
Website: www.michellemontezeri.com

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Sunday, February 28, 2010 – Washington, DC
Sunday, February 13, 2010 – Berkeley, CA

This edition of Masters of Persian Music features two of the most important figures in Persian classical music touring with the next generation of musical masters! Kayhan Kalhor on kamancheh and Hossein Alizadeh on tar are joined by remarkable young vocalist Hamid Reza Nourbakhsh.

Funded in part by the D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities, an agency supported in part by National Endowment for the Arts

Alizadeh is considered an inspiration to an entire generation of Iran’s musical culture. Trained in composition, performance and musicology at the Universities of Tehran and Berlin, he also studied with the ostads (maestros) of Persian music including Ali Akbar Khan Shahnazi, Nur Ali Borumand, Abdollah Davami, Mahmood Karimi and Houshang Zarif.

Kayhan Kalhor and Hossein Alizadeh

Alizadeh has been both conductor and soloist with the Iranian National Radio and Television Orchestra. He founded the Aref Ensemble and performed with the Shayda Ensemble, both dedicated to the promotion and advancement of Iranian classical music. Alizadeh has recorded the entire body of the radif (a core set of works made up of about 200 short modal pieces called gushehs) based on the
interpretation of Mirza Abdollah (1843-1918), a noted court musician and master of both the Persian setar (a four-stringed plucked lute) and the tar.

Alizadeh has himself composed many works of contemporary and neo-classical Iranian music including “Hessar,” “Ney Nava” and “Song of Compassion” and film scores including Gabbeh, A Time for Drunken Horses and, most recently, Turtles Can Fly. Alizadeh has performed extensively throughout the United States, Europe and Asia and has appeared on many radio and television programs around the
world. He has taught at the University of Tehran, the Tehran Music Conservatory and the California Institute of the Arts.

Kayhan Kalhor is an internationally acclaimed kamancheh (spike-fiddle) virtuoso and has played a leading role in popularizing Persian music in the West. A member of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project, his compositions appear on all three of the ensemble’s albums and three of his recent recordings have been nominated for Grammys. Said the New York Times last season, “When Mr. Kalhor performed, it
sounded like a conversation among several instruments, with the varying timbres at times evoking the wailing pleas of disconsolate lovers. From a simple, muted beginning, the music became more intense and embellished, as ornate melodies and ornaments unfolded with calligraphic detail above ostinato bass patterns.”

Kalhor began his musical studies at the age seven and at 13 was invited to work with the National Orchestra of Radio and Television of Iran, where he performed for five years. At 17 he began working with the Shayda Ensemble of the Chavosh Cultural Center, the most prestigious arts organization in Iran at the time.

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Kalhor has traveled extensively throughout Iran, studying the music of its many regions, especially of Khorason and Kordestan. He has soloed with a number of leading ensembles, including the New York Philharmonic and the Orchestre National de Lyon, and is co-founder of the renowned ensembles Dastan, Ghazal: Persian & Indian Improvisations and Masters of Persian Music.

Kalhor has composed works for Iran’s most renowned vocalists Mohammad Reza Shajarian and Shahram Nazeri and has performed and recorded with Iran’s greatest instrumentalists. Kayhan has also composed music for television and film and was most recently featured on the soundtrack of Francis Ford Coppola’s Youth Without Youth in a score on which he collaborated with Osvaldo Golijov. Last season, composer John Adams invited Kalhor to perform a solo recital at Carnegie Hall as part of his Perspectives Series and in the same year Kalhor appeared on a double bill at Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival.

The Masters of Persian Music ensemble also includes vocalist Hamid Reza Nourbakhsh, a leading disciple of Mohammad Reza Shajarian. Accompanists are M.R. Ebrahimi (barbat or oud, plucked lute) Alireza Hosseini (tombak, single-headed goblet-shaped drum), Rouzbeh Rahimi, (santur, a hammered dulcimer) and Siamak Jahangiry (ney, flute).

Kennedy Center Tickets:
Sunday, February 28, 2010 – Washington, DC

Washington Performing Arts Society

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall Tickets:
Sunday, February 13, 2010 – Berkeley, CA

Cal Performance

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Nov. 06 – Asia Society: Women of Iran Film Series: Border Cafe

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Nov 6, 2009 7:00pm
725 Park Avenue, New York, NY
Asia Society
Tickets

Nov. 07 – Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery: Roya Akhavan: Nexus

Roya Akhavan’s canvases of bold color and infinite patterns are populated by miniature figures playfully intertwined with curved ribs of arabesque shapes.

Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller
39 East 78th Street at Madison Avenue Third Floor
New York NY
Roya Akhavan: Nexus

Nov. 08 – Open Center: Lecture, An Evening of Persian Mystical Poetry and Wisdom

Franklin Lewis, one of the most distinguished Rumi scholars in America, will speak on the cultural, historical and spiritual world of Medieval Persia from which the great Sufi poets emerged. He will discuss the principal ideas, the lodges and brotherhoods formed around mystical teachings, and will read the poetry of Rumi’s father and teachers, and the work of Sana’i, Attar and others. Then, Sufi musical virtuoso (tanbour, oud, nay flute) and Farsi reciter Amir Vahab, and harpist/nay flautist Arsalaan, will join Peter Rogen, well-known Rumi interpreter,  to weave the mystical verses of Rumi with Sufi music as three dervishes whirl in prayer. The evening concludes with an exploration by Professor Lewis of some of the major teachings of Rumi’s poetry including the religion of love, human nature and the Sufi path, and the world of spirit. Translator and Rumi lover Fereydoun Nazem will also share his work.

Open Center
22 E. 30th St., NYC
Rumi, the Sufi Poets and whirling Dervishes
Tickets

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Nov. 10th – New York University: Hafez Nazeri, Meet the Artist

The NYU Persian Cultural Society cordially invites you to a private evening with Hafez Nazeri in an exploration of the musical traditions of Iran. This special event is a unique opportunity to enjoy the musicianship of the country’s most influential young composer, while enjoying the gorgeous view of the New York skyline from our luxurious banquet hall.

His music blends Eastern and Western motifs to create a new and undefined genre of Classical music. Hafez Nazeri will give an informative speech on the nature of his work and screen a brief performance, followed by a Q&A session.

The event is cosponsored by the Rutgers Iranian-American Civic Associtaion and PAAIA NexGen.  Admission is COMPLIMENTARY, and light refreshments will be served.

Rosenthal Pavilion 10th Floor
60 Washington Square South
New York, NY
Hafez Nazeri – Meet the Artist Special Event

Nov. 11 – Asia Society:A Conversation/Demonstration, Shahram and Hafez Nazeri

Join legendary Iranian musicians, father and son Shahram (vocals) and Hafez Nazeri (setar), in an exploration of the musical traditions of Iran as they give an informative presentation on the music of their native country. This is a unique opportunity to enjoy the musicianship of the Nazeri family in an intimate setting prior to their concert Iranian Sounds of Peace at Carnegie Hall on November 14.

$10 Asia Society members and students w/ID; $12 nonmembers

Nov 11, 2009 7:00pm to 8:30pm
725 Park Avenue, New York, NY
Asia Society

Nov. 14 – Carnegie Hall: Rumi Symphony Project: Cycle 1 performance

Iranian Sounds of Peace
The Rumi Symphony Project is an ongoing part in Hafez Nazeri’s search to integrate classical Iranian and Western musical traditions into a new genre. These new compositions include the poetry of Ferdowsi’s epic Shahnameh as well as spiritual words from Rumi. The Nazeris will be joined by acclaimed musicians Paul Neubauer, viola; Ida Kavafian, viola; Fred Sherry, cello; Matt Haimovitz, cello; Tim Cobb, double bass; Hussein Zahawy, percussion and Shane Shanahan, percussion.

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Shahram Nazeri, Voice
Hafez Nazeri, Artistic Director and Setar

Artists from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center:
Paul Neubauer, Viola
Ida Kavafian, Viola
Fred Sherry, Cello
Special Guests:
Matt Haimovitz, Cello
Tim Cobb, Double Bass
Hussein Zahawy, Percussion

Carnegie Hall
57th St. & 7th Ave., NYC
Tickets

Nov 20 – Dr. Layla S. Diba – Lecture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

6:00 p.m., Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall, Uris Center for Education

Artistic Lineages in Persian Painting
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue. New York, New York
Free with Museum admission

Please check  http://www.persianartsfestival.org/ for more info

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