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7 Apr, 17 tweets, 9 min read
This can't be emphasized enough, but let's put sound to some of these composers, and the types of groups they compose for, to decenter European composers/instruments. 16 composers from the greater Turkic/Western Asian world.

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Sərdar Fərəcov (b. 1957) Azerbaijani composer

"Rondeletto"
Müjgan Zülfüzadə (left photo)- Tar Soloist
Children and Youth Folk Instruments Orchestra of the Azerbaijan State Children's Philharmonic (right photo)



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Svetlana Apasova (b. 1963) Kazakh composer

"Saryarka XXI"
Academic Folk-Ethnographic Kazakh Orchestra "Otyrar Sazy" (photos below)
Established 1982 Almaty, Kazakhstan
fil.kz/team/afeo_os/?…



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Leyla Zagirovna Ismagilova (b. 1946) Bashkir composer

Two concert pieces for piano (2000)
Elina Valieva - piano


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Khabibulla Setekov (b. 1958) Uighur-Kazakh composer

"Almaty Autumn"
Aigul Shamshidenova - solo vocalist


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Rustam Abdullayev (b. 1947) Uzbek composer

"Ratalla" Fantasia for piano, string orchestra and percussion
Mirzakamalova Elnura Rustamovna - piano solo
Sun Symphony Orchestra (est. 2017 in Hanoi, Vietnam)
composer.uz/index



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Ermek Umirov (b. 1954) Kazakh composer

"Belasar"
Tattimbet Academic Orchestra of Folk Instruments
Est. 11988 in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. 80+ players


7/
Rovshan Nepesov (b.) Turkmen composer

"Fantasy"

Compare two performances:

(European Orchestra)

(Kazakh Orchestra)

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Bakhtiyar Amanzhol (b.) Kazakh composer

"Crossing the Urals"
Gulzhan Amanzhol (r. photo)- kyl-kobyz (l. photo)
Bakhtiyar Amanzhol - piano
Dancers unnamed in video.


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Khurshida Khasanova - Uzbek composer

"Color of Tones" Overture
Sogdianda Orchestra of Folk Instruments of Uzbekistan
established in 1991.
facebook.com/sogdiana.orche…



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Balnur Kydyrbek (b. 1955) Kazakh composer

"Oren" for string orchestra
Chamber Orchestra of the Astrakhan State Philharmonic Society


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Tatiana F. Shalginova (b.) Khakassian composer

Concerto for Khakassian khomys (photo) and orchestra (piano reduction)
Aisili Mainagasheva - khomys soloist
Tatiana F. Shalginova - piano


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Rashid Kalimullin (b. 1957) Tatar composer

Trio for three clarinets (2017)
Natasha Fearnside (E flat clarinet)
Robert Schubert (B flat clarinet)
Olivia Grosfeld (A clarinet)



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Ilham Azmanli (b. 1964) Azerbaijani composer

"Milli sərvət"
ilhamazmanli.wordpress.com


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Info about 13 of the 16 composers from the initial tweet are above. Here’s the tweet that inspired this one.

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PS. I explored some of the issues this thread brings up in my "What is #ClassicalMusic?" thread. Issues surrounding how we use instrumentation or ethnic origins to frame and center discussions and inform how we exclude in the classical music field.

PPS. As many of the composers (& the ensembles they wrote for) were products of the Soviet system we can't ignore how it was a response to combat what the Soviets saw as Western Imperialism. This is not unlike what happened with Anti-Colonial Orchestras.

silpayamanant.wordpress.com/2021/02/19/ant…

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7 Apr
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6 Apr
I'm so glad there are videos of Dina Nurpeisova (1861-1955) in existence. Some of her music, and other dombra masters' compositions, are the foundation for Symphonic Quy--a nationalist genre for Kazahkstan Folk Instrument Orchestras. Here s her "Nawiski."

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Re-reading this and thinking about it in light of Dr. Jacqueline C. DjeDje’s work researching the little known African American Fiddling traditions and all the early Blues violinist recordings that we have.

All the more reason to #CiteBlackWen @citeblackwomen
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I am so excited to see "The Wonderful Kingdom of Papa Alaev" as part of the National Library of Israel Film Festival in November! I've spent the past 11 years exploring and performing music of the Bukharan Jews, this is just really exciting!

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That <<logic of exclusion of colored bodies>> comes to play when thinking about the evolution #ClassicalMusic in these formerly colonized countries and how the composers, repertoire, & ensembles that emerged in them are distinctly absent from our whitewashed histories ...
... and how the contribution of scholarship from formerly colonized countries is also absent—the very scholarship that acknowledges the colonial histories and #ClassicalMusic’s Slave Orchestras/Choirs/Bands and hybridized performance practices.
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Re: the figure above:

"Now let’s see what happened when the download counts were flipped, so that the new participants thought the least popular song was actually the most popular."

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