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At the Ottoman Bank Museum: Music and Politics The Nationalist Music of Adnan Saygun
The new lecture series, entitled "Music and Politics", organized by the Museum, focuses on the interaction of music and politics by exploring the works of various composers within the wider socio-political context of their times. In the presentation scheduled for Wednesday, November 17, at 6:30 p.m., Dr. Esin Ulu looks at the music politics of the early Republic through the compositions of Adnan Saygun, one of the founders of Turkish nationalist music.
Esin Ulu will examine the techniques and aesthetics displayed in the compositions of Adnan Saygun, who was both music consultant to the Turkish Republican People's Party and inspector of musical education at the Halkevleri (Houses of the People) during the early Republic, and discuss his impact on the music of the period.
After studying the piano at Istanbul University, Dr. Esin Ulu pursued graduate studies in musicology at Mimar Sinan University. Upon completion of her master's thesis written on Beethoven's string quartets, she undertook a doctoral program in the Department of Musicology, again at Mimar Sinan University, which she completed this year with a Ph.D. thesis presented on Adnan Saygun's Yunus Emre Oratorio. Dr. Ulu currently teaches history of music and musicology at Mimar Sinan University.
A full program of lectures is offered by the Ottoman Bank Museum under the general heading, Voyvoda Street Lectures. This season, a lecture is presented every Wednesday on one of 4 main themes - music and politics, objects and rituals, economic history, and Istanbul. The Making of Modern Turkey Seminars, organized by the Museum in association with Boğaziçi University, are held every third Saturday of the month.
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