Yad-e Yar-e Mehraban


To the Memory of Ostad Gholam Hossein Banan
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To the Memory of Ostad Gholam Hossein Banan

Music by :
Farhad Fakhreddini
Vocals : Kaveh Deylami
Lyrics : Fereydun Moshiri
Ensemble Leader : Hossein Alizadeh

 Farhad Fakhreddini was born in Tabriz in 1937. Recommended by his father he began studying violin and from 1957 for a short while he studied with Ostad Abolhasan Saba. After finishing a 3-year course of radif with Ali Tajvidi he entered the National Music Conservatory and started to study musicology. His mentors in the conservatory were Professor M. Barkeshli, Professor E. Melik-Aslanian, Zaven Hakupian, Professor M. Foruq and Professor Khachik. He graduated from the conservatory in 1965.
Invited by Hoseyn Dehlavi, that was then the president of the National Music Conservatory, he underook in the conservatory the courses of harmony, form in the music of Iran and the combination of poetry and music. From 1965 he was the instrumentalist, composer and concert master in the orchestra of radio, while playing violin and viola in the Golha Orchestra. Afterwards he also joined the Barbad Orchestra. His arrangements and compositions were frequently performed be these orchestras. These ensembles coalesced at last to form the large Symphony Orchestra of Radio and Television. The conducting of the new orchestra was entrusted to him after two short periods of collaboration of the orchestra with Fereydun Naseri and Morteza Hannaneh. This career began from 1973 and lasted till 1979 when he resigned from it. Meanwhile he gave concerts with the Baku Symphony Orchestra. In addition to composing and conducting he showed a deep interest in the old music of Iran. Some of his monographs on the subject have been published.
His works include orchestral music (Homayun, Del-Angizan, Peyvand, Reng-e Mahur...); orchestral songs (Eshtiaq, Hymn of Spring, Spring Comes...); soundtracks of the movies The Husband of Ahu-Khanum, Kaml-ol-Molk, The Days of Awaiting, The Report on a Murder, and the score for the television serials Sar-beh-daran, Ebn-e Sina (Avicenna), and Emam Ali.

Kaveh Deylami was born in 1940 in Rasht. After graduating from high school in Tabriz he went to England to study financial management and marketing.
He began to work in England and in 1975 returned to Iran and then felt deeply interested in music. He started to take tar lessons from Hushang Zarif and then went to study Persian art of singing with Ostad Q. Banan, the renowned singer. Deylami began his career in a performance of Yad-e Yar-e Mehraban (Cherishing the memory of the benevolent friend) based on a collection of verses with the same title by F. Moshiri and couducted by the composer, Farhad Fakhreddini. His second major work is his contribution in the album Mey-e Nab (i.e. pure wine) that is a collection of arrangements Golnush Khaleqi made after the works of her father, Ruhollah Khaleqi who is a well-known composer. Deylami's last work is also a composition by Fakhreddini on poems of Nezami Ganjavi.
In 1990 he gave several concerts with Hoseyn Alizadeh and the Ensemble of National Instruments in the United States and Europe. It proved to be a fruitful experience for him. These successful concerts were followed by a single concert in Vienna, in which Hushang Zarif undertook the leadership of the ensemble. ...

Published [03/09/1989]



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