[Fwd: [oddmusic] Global Dreams feat. John Schneider & Kourosh Zolani]

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Subject: [oddmusic] Global Dreams feat. John Schneider & Kourosh Zolani
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 06:19:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: Karloff <mindeyed@yahoo.com>
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Hello all, we have started a new music series focussing on world and indigenous music, please come and support this evening of spiritual and intriguing music. For more info please visit www.hop-frog.com/GlobalDreams <http://www.hop-frog.com/GlobalDreams>.
GLOBAL DREAMS

/a new music series by the hop-frog kollectiv/

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/Saturday, October 18th/

Kourosh Zolani, Santour

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John Schneider, Microtonal Viola & Guitars - playing American Maverick composers Harrison & Partch

The Salvation Theater, 1519 Griffith Park Blvd., Silverlake, California

$12.00 - $15.00 (sliding scale donation), Only 50 seats available, please reserve by calling: 562-494-6734 or by sending the appropriate donation via PAYPAL <http://www.paypal.com/> to mindeyed@yahoo.com <mailto:mindeyed@yahoo.com>, or win tickets by listening to John Schneider, Thursdays 10am-12:30pm on KPFK 90.7 (www.kpfk.org)

Doors open at 8pm

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*Kourosh Zolani *

*www.kouroshzolani.com <http://www.kouroshzolani.com>*

*Biography* :

Kourosh Zolani was born in1970 in a very small town in Iran. Kourosh studied classical music and received his BA in musical composition in 1998. He got numerous awards for his creative composing. He has been recognized as a pioneer because of his invention of a Chromatic Santour. The traditional Santour can only play diatonic intervals, which has excluded the instrument from Western classical orchestras. Kourosh�s chromatic Santour can now perform both altered notes and chromatic intervals over a two and a half octaves range. One of the last students of the renowned Santour master, Faramarze Payvar, Kourosh�s virtuosity permits him to play multiple melodies with each hand. Zolani was Concert Master for Iran�s first contemporary classical orchestra. He was also First Santour at the Art University Orchestra and conductor and composer for the Peaceful Planet Orchestra which he had established in Vahdat Hall. He has famous compositions for Santour and orchestra. During the last 12 years he has performed many concerts both as a soloist and also as a Santour player in different orchestras. Kourosh has come to America recently, and during this short time he has performed in many different festivals and venues. Kourosh CD, Peaceful Planet, was selected as winner of Spring's contest by jurors of 2003 Call to Arts Festival in two categories, Aesthetics and Harmony & Best CD Cover Artwork.

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*Santour:* The Santour is an ancient Iranian instrument with beautiful and mysterious sounds. It is a three octaves wooden trapezoid-shape instrument with seventy-two strings which are arranged in eighteen quadruple sets. 72 strings are in two sets of 9 moveable bridges on each side producing 27 diatonic notes. This string instrument is played by beating two delicate wooden hammers. It is believed that the santour is the dulcimer's ancestor; opinions might vary on this issue. The word "Santour" is very old; deriving from the Aramaic "psantrin" and Greek "psalterion". The first time that Santour appeared in the ancient times was in Assyrian and Babylonian stone inscriptions in the year 699 before Christ. In some ancient texts the invention of Santour is attributed to Farabi, a famous ancient Persian scientist. Masoodi an ancient writer and historian has written the names of musical instruments being used during the Sassanian period (224-652 A.D.) that Santour is also listed. The earliest Persian miniatures (16th century A.D.) show the instrument. However, we don�t know an accurate history because Iran lost most of its documentaries, transcripts and hand written books during several national attacks to it around 700 years ago. Today more than ten types of Santours or dulcimers are played around the world. It should be pointed out that with current traditional tuning of the Persian Santour, it is only possible to perform the diatonic intervals, meaning that musicians could not use the Santour in classical orchestras. Kourosh has been recognized as a pioneer because of his creation of a new method of tuning the Santour, which has offered him the capacity to perform both altered notes and chromatic intervals over a two and a half octaves range. Kourosh Chromatic Santour has 9 notes more than original Santour.

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John Schneider

Reviews

"Lou Harrison�s tender /Suite No.2/ for microtonal guitars, skillfully played by John Schneider, made you forget all about the concept and listen to the music. Its mixture of the Spanish-inflected dances & elegies with the slightly �off� quality of the pungent microtonal harmonies, echoing in the reverberant chapel, was a delight.� */New York Times/*

�Schneider, whose gracious stage personality is the opposite of Partch�s, nevertheless manages to convey the composer through his own voice, which is exactly what all lasting music must be capable of sustaining, even in such unique works as /Barstow/ and excerpts from Partch�s journal, /Bitter Music�./impressively mastered Partch's instruments...performances lyrical and theatrical, emphasized the musical side of a composer too often known for his quirkiness" Mark Swed, */Los Angeles Times/*

"Microtonalist Maven" */Wall Street Journal/*

"A mind-boggling experience...." */Guitar Player /*

"Schneider creates elegant dynamic levels and layers on his solo guitar, and he always projects the poetry of the music." */Fanfare/*

"It was Microtonal Heaven" */Denver Advocate/*

"truly magical. . .the superb musicianship should remain enchanting long after neophyte's ears have adjusted to the new tonality." */Los Angeles Reader/*

"performs with such elegance and �lan as to put one's reservations quite beyond the pale. . .A delight, a treat, and, for those who care, an education (or a basis for debate)." */Fanfare/*

"Performances are stunningly expressive and miracles of pitch control. " */in Tune /*, (Tokyo)

"Thoroughly conversant with the idiom of contemporary music...performed with confidence, relish and a commendable degree of technical polish...a brilliant display of timbres and sonorities of the instrument...the range of tone colours achieved seemed to be immense - constantly changing and with a fascinating and almost sensual appeal." */Birmingham Post/*/ /, (U.K.)

"As long as there are John Schneiders to re-create passably the sounds of Partch, we'll have a tenuous grip on this unique byway in the annals of American innovation" Alan Rich, */LA Weekly/*

_Biography_
John Schneider is an internationally recognized guitarist, composer, author and broadcaster whose weekly television and radio programs have brought the sound of the guitar into millions of homes for the past twenty years. He holds a Ph.d. in Physics & Music from the University of Wales, music degrees from the University of California and the Royal College of Music [London], and is past President of the Guitar Foundation of America. A specialist in contemporary music, Schneider's /The Contemporary Guitar /(University of California Press) has become the standard text in the field.

For the past two decades, the artist has performed almost exclusively on the /Well-Tempered Guitar /which uses different patterns of fretting according to the key or tuning system required. Recitals include Renaissance and Baroque repertoire in their original temperaments, as well as contemporary music in alternative tunings by such composers as Lou Harrison, Ben Johnston & others. Since 1991, Schneider's concerts also include vocal works of the pioneer American composer Harry Partch (1901-1974), which he sings while accompanying himself on replicas of Partch's Adapted Guitars [steel stringed instruments refretted in just intonation] & the Adapted Viola. The 1990's also saw the creation of his chamber group */Just Strings/*, a quartet of guitar/harp/cello/percussion devoted to the performance of music in alternative tunings. In 1995, they were invited by the Japanese Embassy to present a series of lectures and concerts throughout Japan under the auspices of the prestigious /Interlink/ Festival which annually selects one American ensemble to represent new trends in American Music.

Schneider has performed in Europe, Japan & throughout North America, and been soloist on NPR's "Performance Today"and PRI's "New Sounds". He has been featured by New Music America, New York's American Festival of Microtonal Music, Denver's Microstock, California's Mozart Festival, the DaCamera Society, Southwest Chamber Music, New American Music Festival, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and /The Outsider/, BBC�s documentary film on Harry Partch. Recent performances include Holland�s 6-city /HARRY PARTCH:Truth About Tune/ Tour, Cage�s /45� for Speaker /for Southwest Chamber Music, & London presentations of /Just West Coast /(Bolivar Hall) & his adaptation of Partch�s /Barstow/ with Contemporary Opera Marin (Britten Theatre). He works as a music Professor at Pierce College in Los Angeles, is music director for /Just Strings/, and is the founding artistic director of MicroFest, an annual festival of microtonal music. His radio show /Global Village /can be heard weekly on Pacifica Radio's KPFK at 90.7-fm in Los Angeles & worldwide at www.kpfk.org.

*_Discography_*

/� Sonic Voyage: New Music for Guitar. /El Maestro Records, 1981.

/� LOU HARRISON: Music for Guitar & Percussion/

Etcetera [Holland] KTC 1071, 1991.

/� Just West Coast : Microtonal Music for Guitar & Harp/

Bridge Records BCD 9041, 1993.[chosen "CD of the Year" by /CD Review/ in 1994]

/� Sasha Matson : RANGE OF LIGHT/

NEW ALBION RECORDS NA 092, 1997.

/� JOHN CAGE � LOU HARRISON � HARRY PARTCH/

Cambria Records - CAMBRIA 8806, 2000. [ASCAP Special Achievement Award]

/� Just guitars : Music by Harrison, Partch, Riley & Scholtz & Schneider/

Bridge Records Bridge 9132, 2003.

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