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8/8/2011
Khonya to perform at Swiss event
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The Iranian ensemble Khonya is scheduled perform at the Buskers Bern Street Music Festival, which will open in Switzerland on August 11.
The ensemble is planning to reprise its concert “A Night with Khayyam†at the three-day festival, vocalist Pari Maleki, who is also the leader of the band, told the Persian service of ISNA on Saturday.
The concert was performed in Tehran in November of 2010.
Ava Ayyubi, Jalal Amirpursaeid, Behrang Baqaii, Mohammadreza Saki, Bamdad Maleki and Mojgan Rahmani will accompany Maleki in the event.
The Buskers Bern Street Music Festival, which is Switzerland’s largest open-air event, hosted Khonya in 2009.
Over 30 groups will perform over 300 shows in 30 locations prepared for the festival in Berne by the organizers.
Pavarotti disciple to hold workshop in Tehran
The Iranian tenor Mario Taqadossi, who attended several master classes held by Luciano Pavarotti, will be holding workshops in Tehran.
Taqadossi plans to hold workshops for six weeks from September 3 at Tehran’s Keral Academy.
The tenor will discuss different methods of singing and techniques to improve voice during the course.
Mario Taqadossi studied violin and singing in Tehran. He obtained a scholarship from the Iranian Opera Company to study in Los Angeles, after which he attended the famous Juilliard School, where he took part in “Master Classes†held by Sherill Milnes, Renate Tebaldi and Luciano Pavarotti.
At the moment, he is working on Persian classical and folkloric songs. He has already produced a CD with selected pieces from his present work. One of his new CD-Productions is called “WORLD HITSâ€. This Album consists of famous Italian, English and German songs.
He also recorded the opera “La Fanciulla Del West†with Hessischen Rundfunk Orchestra in Frankfurt with Gwenth Jones and Marcello Viotti.
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 8/14/2012
Two earthquakes in Iran kill more than 300 and injure 5,000
Overcrowded hospitals in northwest Iran struggled to cope with thousands of earthquake victims on Sunday as rescuers raced to reach remote villages after two powerful quakes killed nearly 300 people. |
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 8/13/2012
Iranian wrestlers win 2 bronze medals
Iranian wrestlers Ehsan Naser Lashgari and Komeil Qasemi have won bronze medals at the London 2012 Olympic Games. |
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 8/6/2012
Iran to exhibit works by Gunther Uecker
Iran is planning to exhibit works by modern German sculptor and installation artist Gunther Uecker at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts. The event will be held from September 16 to November 1, 2012 ... |
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 8/4/2012
"When Artists Attack the King: Honoré Daumier and La Caricature, 1830-1835" opens at Cantor Arts Center
STANFORD, CA.- Long before iranian cartoonist Mahmoud Shokraiyeh was sentenced to 25 lashings for drawing a parliament member in a soccer jersey, 19th-century caricaturist Honoré Daumier and his colleagues ... |
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 8/1/2012
Farhadi’s film takes N America by storm
Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s Oscar-winning film A Separation has taken the North America’s movie theaters by storm as the second top-grossing foreign-language film in 2012. |
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 7/30/2012
London to exhibit installation by Iran’s Shirin Sabahi
The Saatchi Gallery is slated to display an installation work created by the Iranian artist Shirin Sabahi in the British capital of London.
The event is part of the 2011 Contemporary Art Prize (CAP) ... |
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 7/24/2012
US, Iranian team excavate Siraf
A team of American and Iranian archaeologists has launched underwater excavations at the historical port of Siraf in the Persian Gulf. |
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 7/22/2012
Mutatis Mutandis: Group show curated by Cathrine David opens at Vienna's Secession
VIENNA.- Mutatis Mutandis brings together a number of works that explore the complexity of contemporary events, materiality, history, and memories, and propose possible re-presentations. Discontinuous ... |
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 7/7/2012
The 2nd Tehran Annual Digital Art Exhibition [TADAEX] was opened on Friday, July 6th.
The first day of The 2nd Tehran Annual Digital Art Exhibition [TADAEX] was opened among the unexpected attendance of the audience. |
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 7/2/2012
UNESCO registers Isfahan Friday Mosque
Isfahan’s Friday Mosque has been inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List, making it the 14th Iranian site registered on the roll. The independent, 21-member World Heritage Committee announced the ... |
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