Tag: Music

Ravi Shankar, the Indian sitarist and composer whose collaborations with Western classical musicians as well as rock stars helped foster a worldwide appreciation of India’s traditional music, died Tuesday in ...

Jazz pianist Dave Brubeck, whose experiments in rhythm and style helped win millions of new jazz fans around the world, died Dec. 5 of heart failure. He was 91. Brubeck, ...

Renowned piano player Jacob Karlzon recently visited Turkey to give a concert at Istanbul’s Akbank Sanat and also attended a musical workshop during the trip.  He describes his music as being inspired ...

"The Civilizations Choir of Antakya", a mosaic of exceptional performers from Turkey performed at the historic Howard Theater in Washington. Nominated for the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize, "The Civilizations Choir ...

Twitter works as an outlet of rage against Fazıl Say. Say’s attack was on the listeners of arabesque music, going so far as to call them ‘traitors’. Fazıl Say might ...

The Beatles audition tape rejected by a record label executive in arguably the biggest blunder in pop history has resurfaced and will go on sale at a London auction next ...

President Obama, the mayor of London, China’s top dissident artist and Madonna, every time someone signals the death of “Gangnam Style” up pops another high-profile figure to keep the phenomenon ...

The Çukurova State Symphony Orchestra (ÇDSO) will premier the symphony “Atatürk Yaşıyor” (Atatürk lives) Nov. 10 in Cologne. Conductor Betin Güneş, who wrote the composition, said the orchestra would visit ...

Legendary rock band Thin Lizzy will be giving a concert in Turkey on November 11 at Maçka Küçükçiftlik Park as part of the Avea Escape to Music concerts.  The band is considered ...

Depeche Mode will perform on May 17 at Kuruçeşme Arena. The British band Depeche Mode will perform in Turkey once again in May 2013. Depeche Mode came toTurkey in 2001 and 2006 to ...