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Mehr News Agency, Iran
March 11 2007
Farhat composed tenth symphony to repay his debt to war martyrs
TEHRAN, March 11 (MNA) -- Iranian musician Shahin Farhat said on Sunday that
he composed his tenth symphony, entitled Martyrs, as a way to repay part of
his debt to the martyrs of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war.
`The work is the best of the 11 symphonies I have composed over my career,'
he told the Persian service of IRNA.
The Art Bureau of the Islamic Ideology Dissemination Organization (IIDO)
recently released a CD of a performance of the 41-minute symphony by the
Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Vladimir Sirenco.
The symphony had originally been scheduled to be recorded by the Armenian
Philharmonic Orchestra with Iranian conductor Loris Tjeknavorian.
Farhat recently completed the Muhammad (S) Symphony and previously composed
the Iran, Iranian Lady, Damavand, and Persian Gulf symphonies.
March 11 2007
Farhat composed tenth symphony to repay his debt to war martyrs
TEHRAN, March 11 (MNA) -- Iranian musician Shahin Farhat said on Sunday that
he composed his tenth symphony, entitled Martyrs, as a way to repay part of
his debt to the martyrs of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war.
`The work is the best of the 11 symphonies I have composed over my career,'
he told the Persian service of IRNA.
The Art Bureau of the Islamic Ideology Dissemination Organization (IIDO)
recently released a CD of a performance of the 41-minute symphony by the
Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Vladimir Sirenco.
The symphony had originally been scheduled to be recorded by the Armenian
Philharmonic Orchestra with Iranian conductor Loris Tjeknavorian.
Farhat recently completed the Muhammad (S) Symphony and previously composed
the Iran, Iranian Lady, Damavand, and Persian Gulf symphonies.