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  Sarajevo
Sarajevo is economically one of the strongest regions of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Sarajevo is also home to the Sarajevo Haggadah, one of the oldest surviving such texts, originating from the 14th century and brought by Jews fleeing the Spanish inquisition.
Sarajevo became known for its large marketplace and numerous mosques, which by the middle of the 16th century were over a hundred in number.
aboutsarajevo.blogger.ba   (7250 words)

  
 DebConf/Sarajevo - Debian Wiki
Sarajevo is the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
During the Siege of Sarajevo (1992-1995), the airport served as a vital supply line for the city, receiving food and humaniarian aid brought in by United Nations aircraft.
This one at the Alifakovac glade, above the same-named settlement in Sarajevo, is one of the most beautiful examples of the local memorial architecture and skills of the stone-mason masters.
wiki.debian.org /DebConf/Sarajevo   (4377 words)

  
 Sarajevo
As is Sarajevo itself, it is one of the officially recognized cities of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Sarajevo is economically one of the strongest regions of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The history of modern Sarajevo begins with the declaration of independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina, from Yugoslavia The city becomes the capital of the new state, as the local division of the Yugoslav People's Army establishes itself on the surrounding mountains.
www.shortopedia.com /S/A/Sarajevo   (1406 words)

  
 Sarajevo Jazz Festival - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Sarajevo Jazz Festival, or Jazz Fest Sarajevo, is an annual celebration of Jazz music in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In recent years, the Festival has been sponsored by Heineken and has featured Jazz musicians from around the world including France, Germany, Netherlands, the United States, the United Kingdom, Norway, and Turkey.
According to organizers, the goal of the Sarajevo Jazz Fest is to popularize and recognize Jazz music in Sarajevo.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sarajevo_Jazz_Festival   (135 words)

  
 mizi's Journal
Sarajevo Valley at DuskSarajevo is the capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and one of the most important cities in the Balkans.
Sarajevo was founded by the Ottomans in 1461.
Sarajevo is part of Canton Sarajevo, one of the ten Cantons in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
www.greatestcities.com /users/mizi   (188 words)

  
 Sarajevo travel guide - Wikitravel
Sarajevo [1], the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, is a lively city of 400,000 people, nestled in a valley, mainly within the Bosniak(Muslim)-Croat Federation, but with parts in the Republika Srpska.
The Sarajevo Tunnel Museum shows the tunnel which was used to ferry supplies into the besieged city during the conflict and is next to the airport.
Though it is not situated within Sarajevo city limits but in a somehow remote place, some 150 kms from Sarajevo, visiting Srebrenica which has witnessed one of the world's deadliest massacres in July 1995 is quite important for those who are interested in recent history.
wikitravel.org /en/Sarajevo   (2207 words)

  
 Jazz Strings: Events 1999   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Sarajevo is recovering after the brutal siege from 1992-95; the city is very safe now and has a growing international cultural scene which includes the Jazz Festival, Film Festival and International Theatre Festival.
But if jazz festival promoter Edin Zubcevic or his crew are any indication, I think the seeds of the future are there, in their enthusiasm and dedication to promoting a music which has essentially no roots and a small audience in that part of the world.
Jazz cellist Karen Patterson appears with a jazz ensemble in a performance of The Progression of African American Music and Culture at the Springfield Cultural Festival in Springfield, Ohio on Sept. 25.
music.calarts.edu /~chung/events99.html   (1827 words)

  
 BH Tourism - Festivals
Sarajevo is well known for its wide array of cultural festivals – featuring cutting edge films, the newest jazz sounds, to alternative theatre productions.
This festival is the longest of all the Sarajevo festivals.
Kozara ethno festival throughout two days of its duration, shows people from Kozara, how they used to live there back in the past, their customs that are real attraction for tourists from everywhere.
www.bhtourism.ba /eng/festivals.wbsp   (834 words)

  
 CNNTraveller - Welcome to Sarajevo
Sarajevo may be a city scarred by war, but this historic mix of East and West, Christian and Muslim, is now fighting back.
Sarajevo International Airport is 12km south of the city centre.
The multi-religious old town of Sarajevo boasts a variety of historic buildings including the 16th-century Bey’s Mosque and the old Orthodox church, as well as the Catholic cathedral and synagogue.
www.cnntraveller.com /2003/spring_summer/sarajevo   (1440 words)

  
 sarajevo jazz festival
In the period between two festivals, other events are organized such as concerts, workshops, promotions etc. There are three divisons of Jazz Fest: JF Records, JF Home Video and JF Publishing.
And finally, JF Publishing are issuing various jazz publications and magazine- guide simply called "Jazz".
First issue of "Jazz" is expected to appear in the year 2000.
www.angelfire.com /on/sarajevojazz/festival.html   (126 words)

  
 International Jazz Festivals
This festival may prove to be one of the best of the year.
This festival is held on the beauty beachside of Gleneleg at several venues.
The Montreux Jazz Festival has a tradition of being one the finest and most prestige's jazz festival in the world.
www.jazzentertainment.net /international.htm   (372 words)

  
 Splendid Sarajevo: Europe's Best Kept Secret ~ by Maryam Manteghi
Sarajevo was built by the Ottoman Empire in the fifteenth century and re-visited by Austro-Hungarian architects in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Sarajevo was home to a synagogue before any other city in Western Europe and, most incredibly, in a city that survived three and a half years of ethnic war, all of these structures remain unscathed.
Bascarcija noce (Bascarsija nights) www.bascarsijskenoci.ba is another festival of dance and music held in summer in the old town.
www.escapeartist.com /efam/68/Life_In_Sarajevo.html   (943 words)

  
 Sarajevo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sarajevo is located at 43°52′0″N, 18°25′0″E, close to the center of triangular-shaped Bosnia-Herzegovina and within the historical region of Bosnia proper.
It is built on the Sarajevo valley, in the middle of the Dinaric Alps, and encircled by heavily forested hills and mountains.
Sarajevo is located close to the center of the triangular shape of Bosnia and Herzegovina in southeastern Europe.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sarajevo   (3295 words)

  
 YU Jazz fest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
In 1995 the Festival was an international one, but it was a big financial bite for the producer, therefore the programme relies on Yugoslav musicians, some of them our music masters living abroad, with occasional visits of foreign jazz performers.
Jazz does not belong to the category of popular, even less does it belong to commercial music, that is why the support of media was (and still is) extremely important.
Jazz musicians are said to be extremely natural and simple which is confirmed in Valjevo in the best way.
www.valjevo.org.yu /valjevoe/kultura/jazz_festival.htm   (1170 words)

  
 PmWiki | MarkChung / HomePage
Jazz violinist Mark Chung draws from a variety of influences and styles, having studied classical, jazz, and North Indian classical music at California Institute of the Arts.
He performed at the Sarajevo Jazz Festival in 1999 with the Japanese group Gypsy Swing Project, with whom he recorded "Ponnichi".
Mark can be seen playing jazz, Afro-cuban, new music, and creative music in several groups around the San Francisco Bay Area, including regular shows with Strings 'N Things, Charangon Nueve, and Shotgun Wedding Hip-hop Symphony.
music.calarts.edu /~chung/jazzviolin/index.php?n=MarkChung.HomePage   (127 words)

  
 X Biennial in Sarajevo
For Sarajevo 2001 we propose a division of disciplines of artistic work in which traditional disciplines find their place although conceived as a separate sector of artwork.
Some of them could take place in Sarajevo, especially in cases when it is possible to bring together the B-H artists to work on the realization of works which could become an integral part of the program, or even represent preparatory works for the Biennial.
The Sarajevo Biennial has also asked whether it could be possible to identify persons who could find free time and be willing to dedicate it to the realization of the Biennial.
www.saray.net /biennial2001/bien/engbien.htm   (1272 words)

  
 9. Jazz fest Sarajevo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Jazz fest Sarajevo, koji će se održati od prvog do šestog novembra.
Festival ce trajati šest dana, a bosanskohercegovackoj publici ce se predstaviti znacajna imena evropske i americke muzičke scene.
Planirano je da festival na 17 koncerata predstavi umjetnike iz 13 zemalja svijeta.
www.bosniaexpress.com /kultura/festivali/festivali28.htm   (202 words)

  
 Norwegian musicians at Sarajevo Jazz Fest (norveska)
As one of the biggest events in the BiH’s cultural calendar, Sarajevo Jazz Festival, continues to push the envelope.
After his intermezzo with the Norwegian jazz combo Masqualero, NPM completed his debut album as a leader in 1997, "Khmer” and was honoured with the German Record Critics Award and a Norwegian Grammy.
While the live events take place across Sarajevo, local media stations has enabled the Festival to become a truly international event, with a vast amount of the music presented reaching audiencies in Bosnia and Hercegovina and worldwide through broadcasts on the radio, TV and online.
www.norveska.ba /culture/music/jazz/sarajevojazz.htm   (521 words)

  
 Amazon.fr : Sundance to Sarajevo: Film Festivals and the World They Made: Livres en anglais: Kenneth Turan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Aesthetically driven festivals, like Italy's silents-only Pordenone, run on the commitment of organizers and patrons who believe in a given film genre or set of artistic tenets.
Four sections discuss different festivals in terms of business (Cannes, Sundance, and ShoWest), geopolitical issues (Fespaco, Havana, Sarajevo, and Midnight Sun), aesthetics (Pordenone, Lone Pine, and Telluride), and the politics of festivals in general.
Experiencing an inside look at these festivals and discovering the lesser-known ones such as Fespaco (African film) held in Burkina Faso and Pordenone (silent cinema) in Italy are what make this book interesting.
www.amazon.fr /Sundance-Sarajevo-Film-Festivals-World/dp/0520218671   (497 words)

  
 NewMusicBox
The name of the group riffs off Jelly Roll Morton's statement that you can't have jazz without the Spanish Tinge—the tango and habanera rhythms—the hemiolas that are encountered on a regular basis in New Orleans Jazz.
And on it goes...I've played a bunch of Jewish music festivals; I'm going to play some more...I feel, however, that the most important thing about the influence of Jewish music on my music is this: many of us who came up in the late '70s/early '80s were fascinated by collage and references.
So many things were there: Asian and African music, all forms of jazz, blues and folk music, "contemporary classical" music, etc. Hankus Netsky, who as performer and educator, is one of the most important figures in the klezmer revival, gave me cassettes of recordings he had collected.
www.newmusicbox.org /page.nmbx?id=69hf01   (1167 words)

  
 SoundClick artist: Ognjen Savija - Ognjen Savija - artist, musician, producer & DJ from Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina.
Simultaneously, I became interested in jazz and new age and begun to learn theory of music, composition and improvisation, and on the other side I also have learned how to make electronic circles, to do computer programming and sound production.
The same year the band opened the first Sarajevo jazz festival.
For the second Sarajevo jazz festival I have been engaged as a producer and a leading engineer of sound.
www.soundclick.com /bands/pageartist.cfm?bandID=401299   (676 words)

  
 Summit Music Festival Violin Faculty
She was concertmaster and soloist of the Long Beach Bach Festival Orchestra for 11 years.
He is a regular guest in juries of international violin competitions and holds the post of honorary professor at institutes in Japan, Poland, Bulgaria, and Russia.
She regularly performs at annual festivals of chamber music in France.
www.summitmusicfestival.org /faculty_violin.htm   (2932 words)

  
 Jazz News: Cornelia Street Cafe February 2005
Since releasing his debut recording, Under The Wire (Enja,1991), he has continued to be part of the cutting edge in American improvised music, touring the festival and club circuits recently both in the US and Europe with his trio of bassist Tarus Mateen and drummers Jay Rosen or Nasheet Waits.
Arturo is currently on tour w/ the Lincolin Center Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra throughout the United States and an upcoming premiere performance in Shanghai, China, yet he is still making time for his Y Riza Negra performances at Cornelia Street.
Touring in clubs and festivals all around Europe and Japan, he now presnts his music in NYC for the first time, with a stunning quintet featuring musicians as bassist Pablo Aslan (Paquito D`Rivera, Lalo Schiffrin, Joe Lovano).
www.allaboutjazz.com /php/news.php?id=5093   (2702 words)

  
 Art of the States: Acid Jazz Burnout
"A haunting quality of the recent English dance music called 'acid jazz' is the way that soloistic phrases from jazz solos -- solos which originally strove towards at least the illusion of spontaneity -- are removed from context and ossified: repeated over and over until every quirk is as familiar as a verbal tic.
His piano trio Sephardic Tinge has performed at the Sarajevo Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, Saalfelden Festival, and the Krakow and Vienna Jewish Culture Festivals.
Byron has served as artistic director of jazz at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and, since 2000, as artist-in-residence at New York's Symphony Space, where he established the Symphony Space Adventurers Orchestra.
artofthestates.org /cgi-bin/piece.pl?pid=209   (895 words)

  
 Drum Orchestra - Biography
...was formed in 1997 in Sarajevo, BiH as afro-beat percussion ensemble.
Born from the pulse of Community Music Sarajevo in 1996, the musicians of Drum Orchestra have been regularly animating communities all over Bosnia and Herzegovina - nurturing their style they move on the global level.
Working in BiH, Cro, NL and I with the youth, special need group and public they provide a positive sphere to people's lives with music as a life affirming and healing activity.
www.drum-orchestra.co.ba /bio.html   (183 words)

  
 Vilnius Jazz Festival
Reichel is particularly recognised as a solo performer, but in recent years he has played more group than solo.
has broad-ranging musical experience: personal versions of jazz standards, her own compositions.
is the most original and amusing group of new italian jazz.
www.vilniusjazz.lt /2002/django_bates.htm   (132 words)

  
 Biographies
Although his training was classical, he was introduced to jazz during junior high school and was learning saxophone at the same time that he took up his primary instrument, oboe.
As he continued his studies at Duquesne University and the Manhattan School of Music, McCandless embarked on his performing career playing with the Pittsburgh Symphony at Carnegie Hall and the United Nations when he was only 19.
Jazz and improvised music had just come into my life.
www.artlande.com /TigersTour/Bios.html   (2105 words)

  
 Eastern Europe Holidays: News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
With November approaching quickly, the stage is being set for the best Jazz Festival in Eastern Europe.
Sarajevo is set to come alive to the sounds of various international jazz bands!
Published in a major Australian newspaper in November 2004, this article positively promotes Sarajevo, which is certain to become the tourist destination of the future...
www.e-europeholidays.com /news.asp   (220 words)

  
 Jazz Festivals in November
San Francisco, CA This annual festival is designed to bring you the utmost in jazz entertainment
It is held in the city and incorporates several venues.
This festival has a reputation for presenting the best in modern Jazz.
www.jazzentertainment.net /november_jazz_festivals.htm   (75 words)

  
 UnreliableNarrators1
In 1978, Ribot crossed the river to New York City, where he served as sideman for such musicians as jazz organist Jack McDuff and legendary soul shouter Wilson Pickett.
Ribot began his five-year stint as a member of the Lounge Lizards (John Lurie's innovative and influential Downtown jazz ensemble) in 1984.
At the time Marc's playing, which blended elements of classic Blues guitar with the ironic No Wave/Knitting Factory aesthetic, caught the ear of a number of artists who were also interested in amalgamating and disrupting disparate musical traditions.
www.mopitkins.com /calendar/ShowPages/UnreliableNarrators1.html   (555 words)

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