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Music for Peace with El Sistema

Published by Hurriyet on Fri, 06/06/2014 - 00:01

The Istanbul Music Festival hosts the Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra of Venezuela on June 10, while Music for Peace Foundation will perform on the same date One of the important events of the ongoing 42nd Istanbul Music Festival will be held on June 10 with a concert by Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra of Venezuela with 240 performers.

Opera-Ballet company breaks record

Published by Hurriyet on Tue, 06/03/2014 - 16:07

The 2013-2014 art season in Turkey hosted the highest number of art lovers ever, according to State Opera and Ballet (DOB) General Arts Director Rengim Gökmen.

“Ankara DOB has already broken the record for audiences. It equalized its own record in İzmir, Istanbul, Mersin, Antalya and Samsun, too. When the season is finished, a record will be broken,” said Gökmen.

Cash-Strapped Balkan States Miss Eurovision

Published by Balkan Insight on Wed, 05/07/2014 - 09:44

The semi-finals of the Eurovision, which started on Tuesday in Denmark, will include only six participants from the Balkan region - Albania, Montenegro, Macedonia, Romania, Slovenia and Greece.

Viewers in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia and Turkey will only watch Eurovision from their TV sets.

Abdurrahman Oner Wins Belgrade 'Short Meter' Festival

Published by Balkan Insight on Tue, 04/08/2014 - 09:28

Festival of Short and Documentary movies “Short Meter” ended on April 6 with awards to the best movies in international and the domestic competition programme.

The jury said that best movie was Turkish short movie Buhar (2012) that already won numerous festival awards from Turkey, Kazahastan, to Germany Italy and US in last year.

She conquers Internet by Serbian house

Published by Blic on Mon, 04/07/2014 - 02:00

She conquers Internet by Serbian house

Tens of thousands of people of the countries in the region have seen on the Internet the footages of young violine player Jelena Urosevic (23) of Ljig.


Pioneering Kosovo Soap Gets Viewers’ Thumbs-Up

Published by Balkan Insight on Fri, 03/28/2014 - 12:41

Kosovo’s first homemade soap opera, “Stine Dashurie”, does not deal in subtle plot lines.

The main character in “Seasons of Love” - to give it its name in English - moves back from Switzerland to Kosovo.

Alban has a job with the EU rule-of-law mission, EULEX, and is caught in a love triangle involving a co-worker and her best friend.

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