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Commemorating Stefanos Yerasimos at the Ottoman Bank Museum
The Ottoman Bank Museum is organizing a commemorative event for Prof. Stefanos Yerasimos, with a panel comprising his colleagues and students, who will recount projects jointly accomplished or still unfinished. The event is scheduled for Monday, October 17, at 5:30 p.m. In addition, the Bezmârâ Ensemble - a group specializing in Ottoman music prior to the 19th century, played with the original period instruments - founded by Fikret Karakaya with the support of Yerasimos, will perform 7 early Ottoman pieces. The untimely death of Stefanos Yerasimos leaves a number of his ongoing projects unfinished. An architect by profession and a scholar of vast erudition, his works in diverse areas have paved the way for countless researchers. Perhaps the most dominant trait of his personality, and the one that set him apart from other intellectuals, was his tendency to value interrogation over affirmation, and not take offense when a question remained unanswered. The questions he never stopped asking have inspired many a colleague and opened up new horizons for his many students.
Commemorating Stefanos Yerasimos
Date: Monday, October 17, 2005 Time: 5:30 p.m. Place: Ottoman Bank Museum
PANEL
Moderator : Prof. Edhem Eldem, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul Opening address:Pierre Chuvin, dir. of the French Institute for Anatolian Studies, Istanbul Participants : Prof. Pierre Pinon, CNRS, Paris Asst. Prof. Derin Öncel, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul Asst. Prof. Cana Bilsel, Middle East Technical University, Ankara Prof. Nicolas Vatin, CNRS, Paris CONCERT The Bezmârâ Ensemble is the first and only representative, in Turkey, of the early music revival trend pioneered, in the beginning of the 1900s, by Arnold Dolmetch in the UK, and which soon spread to the rest of the West. Founded in 1996 by Fikret Karakaya, the group at first only performed the compositions of Kantemiroğlu, written for the saz, then added to their repertoire works collected by Ali Ufkî in the 17th century, in his Mecmûa-i Sâz ü Söz - which included as well several of his own compositions.The ensemble has given numerous concerts both in Turkey and abroad. Compositions performed: 1. Arazbar Peşrev - Nefîrî Behram 2. Neva Peşrev - Acemler 3. Şehâ Zülfün Beni Dîvâne Kıldı - Derviş Frenk Mustafa 4. Aks-i Rûy-i Yâr ile Pürdür Derûn-i Sînemiz - Âmâ Kadri Çelebi 5. Gel Kâkülünü Gerdanıma Ser Medet - Anonymous 6. Bayati Peşrev - Acemler 7. Kürdî Peşrev - Şehzade Korkut |
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