Friday marks 173 years since the passing of legendary composer Ismail Dede Efendi, known by many as the father of Ottoman classical music. “Dede Efendi is the pioneer of the Ottoman classical music,” ...

Turkey's cultural diplomacy organization Yunus Emre Institute (YEE) on Friday organized a concert in Washington, introducing Ottoman classical music to the Americans. The audience showed great ...

Record collector Ian Nagoski has been buying up cheap 78 rpm discs for over a decade. The 36-year-old music junkie and record store owner always had one rule: "My policy was to buy anything in a ...

Zabelle Panosian sang a hit record that became a staple of Armenian American households in the 1920s but died in anonymity. Panosian is one of the many immigrant musical performers whose songs will be ...

When Ateþ Temeltaþ was a boy in Istanbul, his father, Abdurrahman, seemed prescient about the effect that Westernization, and an eventual relocation to the West, might have on his ambitious offspring.

“Dede Efendi, with his special talent in music, received the special attention of Ali Nutki Dede,” a prominent poet and musician, he added. Friday marks 173 years since the passing of legendary ...

Just a century after Austria repelled Ottoman troops from the gates of Vienna, a young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, newly arrived in the city, wrote an opera about the feared former foe that he set in a ...

When Ateþ Temeltaþ was a boy in Istanbul, his father, Abdurrahman, seemed prescient about the effect that Westernization, and an eventual relocation to the West, might have on his ambitious offspring.

“NEITHER the sweets of Damascus, nor the face of the Arab.” This Turkish adage sums up the disdain modern Turks have long expressed for their Arab neighbours, a disdain that became fashionable with ...