Article Author: BAM and the Aga Khan Music Initiative present Qyrq Qyz (forty girls)
Media Source: Broadway World (USA)
Date: 13 February 2018
The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and the Aga Khan Music Initiative present "Qyrq Qyz" (forty girls), a multimedia reimagining of oral tradition with music. Uzbek filmmaker Saodat Ismailova’s multimedia adaptation sets live performances by female reciters and instrumentalists against multiscreen video projections, with a m
The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and the Aga Khan Music Initiative present "Qyrq Qyz" (forty girls), a multimedia reimagining of oral tradition with music. Uzbek filmmaker Saodat Ismailova’s multimedia adaptation sets live performances by female reciters and instrumentalists against multiscreen video projections, with a musical score by Tashkent-based composer Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky.