{"id":329,"date":"2006-09-16T01:55:50","date_gmt":"2006-09-16T05:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=329"},"modified":"2018-08-20T19:35:14","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T23:35:14","slug":"%e2%80%98ali-riza-mashayikhi%c2%a0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=329","title":{"rendered":"<span class=\"quo\">\u2018<\/span>Ali Riza Mashayikhi&nbsp;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"quo\">\u2018<\/span>Ali Riza Mashayikhi is the dom\u00adi\u00adnant fig\u00adure in mod\u00adern Iran\u00adian con\u00adcert music. Born in 1940 in Tehran, he stud\u00adied in Vien\u00adna and Utrecht, and was intro\u00adduced to mod\u00adernist tecb\u00adniques by Otto Jelinek. How\u00adever, he does not appear to be com\u00admit\u00adted to any of the dread\u00adful \u201csys\u00adtems\u201d that ide\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgized com\u00adpo\u00adsi\u00adtion in the 20<sup>th<\/sup> cen\u00adtury. He sen\u00adsi\u00adbly draws on any tech\u00adnique that is use\u00adful to the cre\u00adation of a par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar piece. Some of his works draw heav\u00adily on Iran\u00adian folk\u00adloric tra\u00addi\u00adtion, intend\u00ading to con\u00advery a region\u00adal spir\u00adit, while oth\u00aders pur\u00adsue oth\u00ader ends entire\u00adly. Mashayikhi was one of the first com\u00adposers to bring com\u00adput\u00ader\u00adi\u00adza\u00adtion into mid\u00addle-east\u00adern music. The pieces in my col\u00adlec\u00adtion are: Sym\u00adphony #2. Op.57, the Con\u00adcerto for Vio\u00adlin and Orches\u00adtra, Op.96, and <em>Nous ne ver\u00adrons jamais les jardins de Nishapour<\/em> for Two Pianos and Orches\u00adtra, Op.56. The lat\u00adter piece is an exam\u00adple of a work that does not direct\u00adly employ any Per\u00adsian mate\u00adr\u00adial that I can see, but nev\u00ader\u00adthe\u00adless con\u00adveys a dis\u00adtinctly Per\u00adsian mood. His out\u00adput is huge, so it will require a lot of explor\u00ading. I like very much what I\u2019ve heard so far. <span id=\"more-329\"><\/span>A curi\u00adous thing about the composer\u2019s name: While he is undoubt\u00adedly Per\u00adsian, \u201cAl-Mashayikhi\u201d is Ara\u00adbic for a per\u00adson of the Mashayikh tribe in Iraq, cen\u00adtered in the towns of Tarmiya and in Al-Hawe\u00adjah, quite close to Sad\u00addam Hussein\u2019s (and Saladin\u2019s) birth\u00adplace in Tikrit. Mashayekhi or Mashayikhi seem to be com\u00admon Iran\u00adian names. Jamshid Mashayekhi is an Iran\u00adian film star, and Ario Mashayekhi is an expa\u00adtri\u00adate painter, sculp\u00adtor, and actor liv\u00ading in Chica\u00adgo. Anoth\u00ader curios\u00adity: there is anoth\u00ader com\u00adposer, named Nad\u00ader Mashayekhi, also trained in Vien\u00adna, but born in 1958 (a bit old to be a son, and a bit young to be a broth\u00ader \u2014 are they relat\u00aded?). I have not heard any of his music. There is also a folk\u00adloric group from Iran called Mashayikhi Ensem\u00adble. The name seems to be pro\u00adfoundly musi\u00adcal. Are we deal\u00ading, here with an extend\u00aded tal\u00adented fam\u00adily like the Bachs were in Thuringia? Or is it all coincidence?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"quo\">\u2018<\/span>Ali Riza Mashayikhi is the dom\u00adi\u00adnant fig\u00adure in mod\u00adern Iran\u00adian con\u00adcert music. Born in 1940 in Tehran, he stud\u00adied in Vien\u00adna and Utrecht, and was intro\u00adduced to mod\u00adernist tecb\u00adniques by Otto Jelinek. How\u00adever, he does not appear to be committed&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=329\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[947,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-listening","category-cu-listening-2006"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9415,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions\/9415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}