Harp and Iranians Composers

Soviet Harpists in Shiraz 1968

After 2nd festival of art in Shiraz, 1968, The Soviet  ensamble, have requested Morteza Hannaneh to Compose for them a Special Work. He wrote a Harp Quartet and awarded them.

Then he dedicated  “SABR & ZAFAR Op. 12″ (Patient and Victory), one of his important works for Harp and Piano and Chamber Orchestra, which based on his own language and Iranian polyphony.

GREAT INTERNATIONAL ART-FESTIVAL of SHIRAZ 1968 (1)

GREAT INTERNATIONAL  ART-FESTIVAL of SHIRAZ 1968 in its second year, presents a face that resembles nowhere. In the meeting place of east and west, it now offers musicians and choreographers from all over the world a field of practice or may Preferred  their respective secrets, comparing their traditions, their aesthetic …
The Europeans artists in Shiraz had found a wonderful opportunity of opening his sensitivity to music of a very special aesthetic, but rich in melodies and rhythms, and often a color of instrumental or vocal, and of remarkable virtuosity.

What shiraz Festival has begun to do is make available for observation fuller range of music in which west and East can study each other and find what they may.

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Louis Auriacombe conducting: “Chamber Orchestra of Toulouse” 1968 September 5.

QUARTET OF 4 SOVIET Women’s Harpists:
Harpists IN PERSEPOLIS: Alla Buzkova, Maria Smirnova, Okssanna golubnitchenko, Natalia Kutchurina 1968 Iran-Shiraz. They had an excellent performance there, Stravinsky and Schubert. Then they had performed a work written by Morteza Hannaneh, Iranian composer, by their application.