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Boğaziçi Jazz Choir
Bogazici Jazz Choir (Turkish language, Turkish: Boğaziçi Caz Korosu) is a vocal ensemble founded in 2011 by Masis Aram Gözbek. The choir has won numerous awards both in Turkey and internationally. The choir's primary aim is to introduce polyphonic music to wider audiences and represent Turkey in international competitions. History The foundations of the Bogazici Jazz Choir were laid in 1994 within the Bogazici University Music Club (BÜMK). When Masis Aram Gözbek joined as the conductor in 2007, the group operated under the BÜMK umbrella between 2007 and 2011. In 2011, the choir became an independent ensemble under the name "Bogazici Jazz Choir." The choir gained public recognition in 2011 after a jazz performance at the Taksim (Istanbul Metro), Taksim metro station went viral online. During the Gezi Park protests, the choir adapted the lyrics of "Karsilamas, Entarisi Ala Benziyor" into "Çapulcu Musun Vay Vay" and "Kızılcıklar Oldu Mu" into "Capulling, Çapulcular Oldu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkish Language
Turkish ( , , also known as 'Turkish of Turkey') is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, a member of Oghuz languages, Oghuz branch with around 90 million speakers. It is the national language of Turkey and one of two official languages of Cyprus. Significant smaller groups of Turkish speakers also exist in Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Greece, other parts of Europe, the South Caucasus, and some parts of Central Asia, Iraqi Turkmen, Iraq, and Syrian Turkmen, Syria. Turkish is the List of languages by total number of speakers, 18th-most spoken language in the world. To the west, the influence of Ottoman Turkish language, Ottoman Turkish—the variety of the Turkish language that was used as the administrative and literary language of the Ottoman Empire—spread as the Ottoman Empire expanded. In 1928, as one of Atatürk's reforms in the early years of the Republic of Turkey, the Persian alphabet, Perso-Arabic script-based Ottoman Turkish alphabet was repl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
