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Concerto for Persian Ney and Orchestra
Saturday, November 3, 2007
8:00
P.M.
Alex
Theatre
216
North Brand Boulevard
Glendale, CA 91203
Sunday, November 4, 2007
7:00
P.M.
Royce
Hall
Royce
Dr. & Sunset Blvd.
Westwood, CA 90024
For ticket information
please contact Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra:
707
Wilshire Blvd #1850
Los
Angeles, CA 90017
213 622
7001
tickets@laco.org
http://www.laco.org/performances
On
November 3-4, 2007, the Persian Ney master Khosrow Soltani and the Los
Angeles Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Jeffrey Kahane, will perform the
west coast premiere of Toward that Endless Plain, Concerto for
Persian Ney and Orchestra by the Persian composer and Carnegie
Mellon University professor Reza Vali.
Toward that Endless Plain, Concerto for Persian Ney and
Orchestra
was written for Khosrow Soltani and dedicated to the
memory of Mr. Soltani’s wife, Farzaneh Navai who passed away in 2004.
The
title and the content of the work are inspired by a poem by the 20th
century Persian mystic poet Sohrab Sepehri:
I must
depart tonight.
Taking
a suitcase
the
size of my loneliness,
I must
go
where
the mythical trees are in sight.
Toward
that endless plain
that
always
is
calling me to itself.
The concerto consists of a prelude and three movements. The second and
the third movements are connected through an interlude. Throughout the
concerto, the solo Ney characterizes “the seeker” (Sâlek
or
Ráhro
in
Persian), while the orchestra embodies the environment of the seeker (Vâdi
in Persian).
The
musical material of the composition is entirely derived from Persian
traditional music. The tuning, rhythm, form, as well as polyphonic
constructions relate to the Persian modal system, the Dástgâh.
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