Four Persian Mystic Poems, performed by Margo Andrea and Alba Consort Ensemble.

Sunday, September 15, 2024 - 4:00pm
Greenport, NY

Four Persian Mystic Poems, performed by Margo Andrea, mezzo soprano and Alba Consort Ensemble.

Sunday, September 15, 2024, 4:00 P.M., Holy Trinity Episcopal Church

768 Main Street, Greenport NY 11914

Composer Reza Vali will mark retirement with a pair of Persian music concerts at Carnegie Mellon

by JEREMY REYNOLDS
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Nov 2, 2022

The rhythms of Persian traditional music defy Western music notation. They’re intricate and complex and give the music a fluid sense of motion.

Persian music is also mostly improvised, or made up on the spot, according to stylistic rules.

“In a way it comes closest to jazz,” said Reza Vali, an Iranian-American composer who writes traditional and cross-cultural music for chamber ensembles and orchestras like the Pittsburgh Symphony. He has also been recorded widely, most recently at the Smithsonian Museum, and has also published books on Persian traditional music.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette