Jul 10, 2017
The poem “Mam Shallou” is used as the basis for the creation of an Operatorio with the same name for Mesopotamian Night 2017 production in San Jose. In the article below, Mr. Marcel Josephson gives a historical and literary review of the poem. Mr. Marcel...
Aug 22, 2016
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...
Jun 29, 2016
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...
Sep 9, 2015
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,...
Jul 17, 2015
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...
May 1, 2014
The Mesopotamian Night 2014 production in San Jose which is set for June 21st will bring on stage a ballet theater presentation called “The Little Lantern”. This ballet is a creation of Sherene Melania as choreographer and librettist and George Somi as composer....
