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Archive for August, 2009
Nothing really new for Iranian music part of Morgenland Festival in 2009
In Iran, peyman nasehpour on August 20, 2009 at 10:22 pmMorgenland festival is one of the biggest oriental festivals in Europe and in 2009, the fifth year is going to start tomorrow, 21.08.2009. I was myself a part of Morgenland festival in 2007 and I am happy that I was a part of this festival in that year.
The problem of the Iranian music part of Morgenland festival is that the festival has invited Salar Aghili and Nader Mashayekhi for most of the years.
Salar Aghili is a good singer and he was a student of Seddigh Tarif and Sedigh Tarif was my father’s student long time ago. Nader Mashayekhi is also a good conductor. I have no personal problem with any of the two mentioned Iranian musicians, but the question is why the director doesn’t invite new musicians to show different styles of Persian music.
It seems the two musicians have a nice friendship with the director and this is really great, but I guess a good director must invite different musicians from Iran to show some other musicians to people who attend in Morgenland festival.
Anyway the official website of Morgenland Festival is: