Makam Music Magazine - Summer 2018

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In this issue, we welcome Nesrin Sipahi, the Queen of Turkish Music. I believe that reading the evaluations and opinions of a living legend from her childhood years to present day on life and music, would excite you as much as they excited us.
Kudsi Erguner, Murat Salim Tokaç, Münip Utandı, Sedat Öztoprak, Serap Çağlayan, Meral Azizoğlu, Melda Kuyucu Kılıç, Niko Andrikos, Fulya Özlem, Özgür Salur, Kenan Öztürk and Selin Tenik… These valued artists replied your questions and talked about the subjects everyone wonders.
In this issue, we went to Paris for you and returned with information about the Turkish music activities in Paris.
Coşkun Karademir, who ranked in the top of Europen music charts with his album “Call of the Birds” told us about the road to success.
It is known that music is a cure-all. The valued scientists who use music scientifically to improve human health will meet with you in this issue, as well as in the future issues.
We wish everyone a healthy and wonderful summer full of music.
Mehmet Şerif Sağıroğlu

Makam Music Magazine Description:

Dear Readers,

Maybe, the most beautiful piece of art is music. It is the melodic life that begins inside a mother’s womb, an integral part of human nature. Music is the most beautiful common ground that brings people together.

The geography we live in has hosted a deep-rooted music history. At the same time, the states and the heads of these states also made a considerable amount of contribution to music. Especially during the periods of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic, the interest of the statesmen in music and some of them being seriously engaged in music, have ensured that this branch of art is supported and brought into the present with a unique richness. Thus, numerous musicians have created invaluable works of art. It is our duty of loyalty to our history to preserve these works of art, tell their value and transfer them to future generations.

On each page you will going to read, we have strived to establish a bridge between the fascinating mystery of the musical history and the colors of our day built on this deep-rooted history. Our magazine is prepared in both Turkish and English in order to contribute to its goal of telling the universal characteristic of the Turkish music to the whole world.

This is the magazine of all who set their hearts on music.

Very truly yours.