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Fazıl Say: I'm Unable To Present My Art In My Country

22.10.2014 18:50

Turkish classical pianist-composer Fazıl Say broke his silence on Tuesday over this week's news concerning his works being removed from a state-funded orchestra's repertoire for the new concert season, saying he's being rendered unable to present his art in his native land.An article posted Sunday on the website sanattanyansimalar.

Turkish classical pianist-composer Fazıl Say broke his silence on Tuesday over this week's news concerning his works being removed from a state-funded orchestra's repertoire for the new concert season, saying he's being rendered unable to present his art in his native land.

An article posted Sunday on the website sanattanyansimalar.com alleged that the Ministry of Culture and Tourism had asked the Ankara-based Presidential Symphony Orchestra (CSO) administration to remove two concerts planned for November and May, whose repertoires were to feature works by Say, in the orchestra's proposal for the 2014-2015 concert calendar.

“What can we do if these guys have issues with ‘Water,' ‘Yunus' or ‘İstanbul'? What can we say?” Say wrote Tuesday on his Twitter account. “What's the reason for my works to be left out in the CSO's yearly program? … We demand to know. The Ministry of Culture [and Tourism] has to explain,” Say wrote.

On Tuesday, Say told Radikal daily writer Cem Erciyes “recent developments both in Turkey and in my own life worry me.”

“I ask myself, ‘Where are we headed?' … And I don't know what's going to happen,” Say told Radikal. “In the past few months, they have taken away my 14-year effort Antalya Piano Festival; we used to give concerts every year with the Borusan [İstanbul Philharmonic] Orchestra and they canceled this year's concerts citing a weird excuse. … And now it's the ministry. They have rendered me unable to present art that I have been presenting all around the world in my own country. What is the purpose?”

On Monday and Tuesday, two deputies from the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) submitted separate parliamentary questions about the allegations to the culture and tourism minister and prime minister.

On Tuesday, Ministry of Culture and Tourism Undersecretary Haluk Dursun told Radikal that no works by Say have been excluded from the CSO's 2014-2015 repertoire, adding that the İstanbul State Symphony Orchestra would perform a concerto by the composer at a concert in May. “There is no embargo or censorship on [works by] Say; the doors of the state have not been closed [to him]. Maybe we will hear more of his works in the 2016 [concert season],” the undersecretary added.

(Cihan/Today's Zaman)



 
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