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Dear friends,

on the 10th of November, the Director of the Museum of Islamic Art Stefan Weber and the British music critic Michael Church opened Elshan Ghasimi's 'Reinterpretation of the Radif' in the Basilica of the Bode Museum in Berlin.

A historic moment and a great joy for all involved and present. We cordially invite you and your friends to the two concerts, that are still to come. On Thursday the 24th of November at the Bode Museum, as well as on the 1st of December at the Musikinstrumenten-Museum.

ELSHAN GHASIMI: The reinterpretation of the Radīf | Dastgāh-e Shur Trailer
© Stark & Shakupa

Michael Church at his opening speech on the 10th of November in Berlin. If you want to read Church's speech, click on the photo.
© both photos Stefan Hähnel

ELSHAN GHASIMI
Die Reinterpretation des Radīf | Dastgāh-e Shur
[The reinterpretation of the Radīf]

Venue of the concert on the 24^th of November

Bode-Museum (Basilika)

Am Kupfergraben

10117 Berlin

Venue of the concert on the 1^st of December

Musikinstrumenten-Museum (Curt-Sachs-Saal)

Ben-Gurion-Straße

10785 Berlin

7pm (Box office from 6pm, Admission from 6:30pm)

The concert series is a Bublitz project and a production in cooperation with the Museum of Islamic Art at the Pergamon Museum of the State Museums in Berlin.

The concert series is supported by:

Dear ladies and gentlemen,
dear friends,

Works of art are reflections of their time. The fact that an Iranian woman in the diaspora, who was not permitted to publish her compositions in her home country, is now revolutionising the musical 'system of her fathers', can be seen as a signal of change. The composer and tar virtuoso Elshan Ghasimi is the first woman to renew the ancient melodic repertoire of Persian classical music, the Radīf.

Elshan Ghasimi will premiere her new interpretation of the Radīf in the Basilica of the Bode Museum on 10^th November 2022. An opening address will be given by the Director of the Museum of Islamic Art, Prof. Dr. Stefan Weber, and the British music and opera critic Michael Church, editor of the standard work on global classical music cultures The Other Classical Musics.

In the first chapter of the composition project, which is scheduled to run for several years, Ghasimi will devote herself to the melodies of the Dastgāh-e Shur module. Further concerts in the four-part series will take place on Thursdays at 7pm on 17^th and 24^th November in the Bode Museum, and on 1^st December in the Museum of Musical Instruments.

You, your family and friends will all be very welcome.

If you do not wish to order tickets via the internet, please send a short email to [email protected].

Tickets can be collected at the box office up until 20 minutes before the performance begins.

To get an impression of classical Persian music and Elshan Ghasimi's work, you can watch the film by the director duo Stark & Shakupa above. It was made in 2021 at the exhibition Iran - art and culture from five millennia at the James-Simon-Galerie in Berlin.

ELSHAN GHASIMI
Die Reinterpretation des Radīf | Dastgāh-e Shur
[The reinterpretation of the Radīf]

Venue of the concerts 10/17/24^th November

Bode Museum (Basilica)

Am Kupfergraben

10117 Berlin

Venue of the concert on 1^st December

Musical Instrument Museum (Curt Sachs Hall)

Ben-Gurion-Strasse

10785 Berlin

7pm (Box office from 6pm, Admission from 6:30pm)

The concert series is a Bublitz project and a production in cooperation with the Museum of Islamic Art at the Pergamon Museum of the State Museums in Berlin.

The concert series is supported by: