Shiraz Arts Festival

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Shiraz Festival of Arts
Genre	Various (music, dance, drama, poetry and film)
Dates	10–22 September
Location(s)	Shiraz/ Persepolis, Iran
Years active	1967–1977
Founded by	Farah Pahlavi Farrokh Ghaffari

The Shiraz Festival of Arts (Persian: جشنواره هنر شیراز) was an annual international summer arts festival, held in Iran bringing about the encounter between the East and the West. It was held from 1967 to 1977 in the city of Shiraz and Persepolis in central Iran by the initiative of Shahbanu Farah Pahlavi.

History

Accompanied by symposia and debates, the festival program included music, dance, drama and film, performed in a variety of locations in Shiraz and surrounding areas.

The venues included the ruins of Persepolis (ceremonial capital of ancient Persia), Naqsh-e Rostam, Hafezieh, Bagh-e Delgosha, Narenjestan, Bazaar-e Vakil, Jahan-Nama Garden, Saray-e Moshir and a concert hall on the Shiraz University campus.

Some of those who appeared at the festival are:

theatre

In theatre,

Music

In music, Iran's traditional musicians were presented, amongst them

The young masters included Hossein Alizadeh, Dariush Talai, Mohammad-Reza Lotfi, Majid Kiani, Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, Parisa and Noureddin Razavi-Sarvestani.

Indian classical musicians who appeared were

Traditional non-Western music, some including dance, were presented from Afghanistan, Algeria, Bhutan, China, Egypt, Indonesia, Iraq, Japan, S, Korea, Morocco, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, Tunisia, Turkey, Vietnam.

Western music

In the field of Western music Yehudi Menuhin, Christian Ferras, Martha Argerich, Arthur Rubinstein and Yvonne Loriod appeared in concert or recital .

The National Iranian Radio & Television Chamber Orchestra was a regular.

Other participants in this field from Iran were Morteza Hannaneh, and the Tehran Symphony Orchestra.

From the West,

End

The twelfth festival was cancelled at the onset of the

• 
  Shahre Gheseh by Bijan Mofid, 1968
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  Moon and Leopard by Bijan Mofid, 1970
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  Persepolis Event, Douglas Dunn (left), Carolyn Brown (rear) and Merce Cunningham (right)
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  Stockhausen's Mantra on 2 September 1972, Aloys and Alfons Kontarsky, pianos, electronics by the composer (foreground)
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  Farah Pahlavi talking to Farzaneh Taidi, Ali Nassirian, and Ezzatolah Entezami
• Ravi Shankar performs at the Shiraz Arts Festival in the 1970s
• Ram Narayan performs at the Shiraz Arts Festival in the 1970s
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  Hossein Tehrani
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  Parisa performs at the Shiraz Arts Festival 1967

See also

• List of music festivals

References