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.

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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:

The first object in Elies Miniatures I – Ein Garten singender Dinge [A Garden of Singing Things] is the 'Magnetic Field Generator'.

The sixth object of Ein Garten singender Dinge [A Garden of Singing Things] is Bouqdib's swiss motorbike licence from the 1970s.

ELSHAN GHASIMI
ELIES MINIATURES III
Die Blume und der Tod

Venue
Großer Salon Schwartzsche Villa
Grunewaldstraße 55
12165 Berlin

Date
7th Oktober 2022
8p.m. (Entry at 7:30p.m., box office at 7p.m.)
Tickets 16 € (10 €)

Participants
Elshan Ghasimi (composer & soloist)
JMH Schindele (Concept & dramaturgy)
Stark & Shakupa (staging & video)
Objects from the „El Arbi Bouqdib Archive“

Curated and produced by:

Supported by decentralized cultural work funds from

Dear friends,

The next few months are all about the sounds of classical Persian music. What strange coincidence that Cate Blanchett received the Lion of Venice for her role in the film Tár last week. Fiction and yet a story that goes close to the truth.

This autumn we have a unique highlight on the museum island in Berlin: In November and December 2022, the Iranian musician and composer Elshan Ghasimi will premiere her reinterpretation of the Radīf in the James-Simon-Galerie. A historical moment, because for the first time a woman will systematically reinterpret the 1400 years, and more, old repertoire.

In the first chapter of the composition project, Ghasimi devotes herself to the melodies of the Dastgāh-e Shur module in four concerts. The opening concert on November 10, 2022 is introduced by the renowned British music and opera critic Michael Church and the director of the Museum of Islamic Art Prof. Dr. Stefan Weber. Further concerts will take place on Thursdays at 7 p.m. on November 17th and 24th and December 1st in the auditorium of the James Simon gallery on the Museum Island in Berlin.

Before that, on October 7th, the third part of the Elies Miniatures concert cycle - the flower and death - premieres in Berlin. Since 2018, this concert series has been talking about the life of the mathematician, poet and Quran researcher El Arbi Bouqdib, who died in 2016. Using selected objects from Bouqdib's estate, the "El Arbi Bouqdib Archive", and their cinematic, literary and, above all, musical interpretation, the story of a traveler between the Orient and Occident takes shape in the concerts.

For the flower and death, the virtuoso and master of classical Persian music Elshan Ghasimi composed 19 new compositions to 19 objects from the archive and demonstrates them, accompanied by the cinematic staging of the same through Stark & Shakupa, in her performance.

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

ELSHAN GHASIMI
ELIES MINIATURES III
Die Blume und der Tod [The flower and death]

Venue
Großer Salon Schwartzsche Villa
Grunewaldstraße 55
12165 Berlin

Date
7th Oktober 2022
8p.m. (Entry at 7:30p.m., box office at 7p.m.)
Tickets 16 € (10 €)

Participants
Elshan Ghasimi (composer & soloist), JMH Schindele (Concept & dramaturgy), Stark & Shakupa (staging & video), Objects from the „El Arbi Bouqdib Archive“

Curated and produced by:

Supported by funds of decentralized cultural work from

Venue
Auditorium der James-Simon-Galerie
Bodestraße
10178 Berlin

Date
10th November 2022
17th November 2022
24th November 2022
1st Dezember 2022

7p.m. (Entry at 6:30p.m., box office at 6p.m.)
Tickets 16 € (8 €)

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

The concert series is funded by: