Mesopotamian Night Conductor Share his thoughts after MN2016
We thought we should share our MN conductor message, John Kendall Bailey, to our audience and all volunteers… Congratulations, and thank you, to EVERYONE who made last night’s concert so wonderful – and who have worked on any or all of our previous...
Modern Assyrian Music Choirs; A short timeline
The history of choirs can be traced to millennia before Christ. It is known that in ancient Assyria there were choirs accompanying musicians in processions. After converting to Christianity many kind of musical presentations disappeared. The first to bring music into...
Dr. Eden Naby article about Mesopotamian Night in an Academic Newsletter
Modern Aramaic makes a comeback as a language of entertainment By Eden Naby In 2007 when at the FEL annual conference (Kuala Lumpur) the participants adopted a resolution recognizing Aramaic as the oldest continuously written and spoken language of the Middle East,...
MESOPOTAMIAN NIGHT BRINGS TO LIFE THE STORY OF “BADRI” BY THE LATE JOHN ALKHAS
The story of “Badri” the little eleven years old Assyrian girl, who witnessed the exodus of her people from Urmi on the eve of July 18, 1918, is coming to life on stage at the Caliornia Theatre in San Jose, CA, on August 1, 2015. This Assyrian literature...