Apr 21, 2010
The video clip below is part of a series of interview presented in the Mesopotamian Night 2009 DVD.
Apr 21, 2010
Assyrian arts and culture once again soar in a riot of musical color as the Assyrian Aid Society of America (AAS-A) presents the 2010 Mesopotamian Nights concert.The fourth annual Assyrian musical extravaganza spotlights AAS-A’s fundraising auction on August 21 at the...
Apr 19, 2010
Obelit Yadgar is coming back again this year to help us with Mesopotamian Night 2010 musical. The success of our project in the past two years without his volunteer contribution, his educational articles and his interviews in Mesopotamian Night 2009, would not have...
Aug 22, 2009
Overall the 2009 Mesopotamian Nights Gala concert at the Galo Center for the Arts in Modesto, California, was a success. The program was presented by the Assyrian Aid Society of America (AAS-A) to raise funds for needy Assyrians in Iraq. With the first half of the...
Aug 1, 2009
Gilgamesh, the Sumerian epic, has inspired scores of novels, plays and operas. One such work, the Assyrian opera Gilgamesh by John Craton and a work still in progress, is sung in Aramaic, the language of the Assyrians. Now comes the Assyrian oratorio Gilgamesh,...
Jul 29, 2009
The Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh has been the subject of operas by Bohuslav Martinu, Franco Battiato, Rudolf Brucci, Rosella Simorari, and John Craton, whose version remains a work in progress. The only one of the operas sung in Aramaic, the language of the Assyrians,...
