Primarily through its YouTube channel and other media platforms, the organization's program will include classical, polyphonic music, domestic projects, story recitations and children's theaters
On its February calendar, Iş Sanat is offering a wide range of online events from Turkish classical and folk song concerts to fairy tales for children. The programs will be recorded live at the Iş Sanat's cultural center in Istanbul's Levent district and will premiere on the organization's social media accounts, mainly YouTube.
Let's take a look at some of the entertaining events taking place in the lineup.
On Feb. 14, Valentine's Day, Iş Sanat will present a special concert with Turkish classical music and opera artist Efruze and the Cinema Symphony Orchestra. The performance, "Timeless Love Songs," will take listeners on a journey through time with beloved songs of romance.
Mezzo-soprano Ekin Bezirganoğlu and pianist Senem Zeynep Ercan will take the stage on Feb. 20 with their concert "Istanbulied." The duo will perform pieces of lied, a German music tradition of setting poetry to classical music and creating a piece of polyphonic music.
Stories from Haldun Taner – one of the leading Turkish literary figures of the Republic era, popular playwright and short story writer – will meet literature lovers on Feb. 8. The event "Human, Just a Tool" – prepared by Atilla Birkiye and adapted for the stage by Mehmet Birkiye – will feature Taner's famous stories including "Iznikli Leylek" ("Stork from Iznik") and "Sancho'nun Sabah Yürüyüşü" ("Sancho's Morning Walk"). The works will be narrated by a talented voiceover cast consisting of Tilbe Saran, Metin Belgin, Bülent Emin Yarar and Hakan Gerçek.
The Milli Reasürans Chamber Orchestra will present their repertoire of baroque music on Feb. 25 under the baton of maestro Oğuzhan Kavruk. In the concert, violinist Özgecan Günöz and oboe player Sezai Kocabıyık will each have a solo performance. The unique event will take listeners through the 400-year-old history of baroque music, reintroducing romantic pieces of the Western art music period of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Moreover, Iş Sanat's "Let Me Introduce" series, in which musicians explain symphony orchestra instruments, will continue with harp and piano in February. The "Reading Theater" series, in which parts of classical plays are performed, will include William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" on Feb. 3, "The Merry Wives of Windsor" on Feb. 17 and Moliere's "The Imaginary Invalid" on Feb. 10.
There will also be reading sessions with authors in Is Sanat's "From its Author's Sound" series. On Feb. 1, writer Aslı Tohumcu will read parts of her book "Abis," author Gönül Paksoy will read from her "Wasteless Kitchen" on Feb. 8 and Ertuğ Uçar will voice chapters of his book "The Night Journey" on Feb. 15.