Aug 26, 2017
Rev. Samuel Khangaldy by all accounts is a prolific musician and composer. He has tirelessly contributed to the Mesopotamian Night project, through original compositions, orchestration for symphony orchestra, and coaching of choir group since 2009. His major original...
May 23, 2013
I first heard Rev. Samuel Khangaldy’s music at the 2009 Mesopotamian Nights production. It was the overture from the oratorio Gilgamesh and it was good stuff. The overture, about 15 minutes or so long, uses long and luscious lines in the tradition of the great...
Apr 17, 2013
Mesopotamian Night 2013 has enlisted an impressive list of emerging Assyrian composers (Samuel Khangaldy, George Somi, Honiball Yousef and Tiglat Issabey), a French composer (Michel Bosc) and an American composer (Devin Farney) for the June 15th event at the...
May 30, 2009
In search of good lectures about Mesopotamian Music, we came across this some twenty years old lecture by Rabi Paulos Khofri in Tehran. We thought it is a good source for education about our music so we put it on YouTube in three different...
Apr 29, 2009
The Gilgamesh Assyrian opera is a work in progress that was initiated by the Assyrian Aid Society Central Valley Chapter two years ago and was commissioned to John Craton. This opera is the first to be composed in modern Syriac (Assyrian Aramaic). The work to date...
Apr 29, 2009
In addition to Assyryt and the opera Qateeni, the Mesopotamian Night 2009 will present an overture from “The Gilgamesh Oratorio” a work under progress by Pastor Samuel Khangaldy. The following is a description of this project in his own words. Inspired by...