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[Hamid Rahmati's Blog] Although first electronic compositions from Iranian composers date back to 1965, the first formal performance of this music was the work of Iannis Xenakis, Polytope de Persépolis, performed at the annual Shiraz Arts Festival in 1971. As described by Robert Gluck, “The upcoming 2,500th anniversary (1971) of the conquest of Babilonia by Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Persian empire, provided a rationale for an international cultural event at the ruins of Persepolis, the ancient pre-Islamic royal seat.”
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[The Daily Swarm - Headlines] Performing Iannis Xenakis's 'Persephassa' On Rowboats In Central ...: The event was a rare performance of “Persephassa,” by the Greek composer Iannis Xenakis, a piece for six percussionists first heard in 1969 at the Shiraz Festival in Iran. This ambitious undertaking was a high point of the fourth annual Make Music New York, a one-day festival that promised more than 1,000 free events in parks, squares and streets in every borough of New York….
[Random Works of the Web] Iannis Xenakis: Institute of Research on Music and Acoustics, Athens (Greece): Iannis Xenakis Pages (with several sound and score samples); Iannis-Xenakis.org by the Friends of Xenakis; Centre for Composition of Music Iannis Xenakis ...
[Belog] Iannis Xenakis ”” Persepolis (1971): Computer music Journal 25.1 (2001) 92-93). The second of Xenakis' commissions for the Shiraz Arts Festival, this time for the extra-special, extra-lavish, extra-ridiculous celebration of 2500 years of Persian monarchy (roasted peacock .
[Music-Download.cc] Iannis Xenakis - Persepolis + Remixes (2002): “The third annual Shiraz arts festival was held that same year at Persepolis. In keeping with the 2500th national anniversary celebrations, the Shah commissioned Greek composer and computer music pioneer Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) to .
[Belog] Iannis Xenakis - Persephassa (1969): he struck up a fruitful association with the Shah and Empress of Iran. (Harley, James.”Iannis Xenakis: Persepolis”.
[mashdownbabylon] Persepolis Revisited: Originally commissioned by the Shah of Iran to celebrate the 2500th anniversary of modern Iran's founding by Cyrus the Great, Xenakis' work was meant to be the defining cultural moment in the Shah's campaign to secularize the .
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