When the Turkish president Gul was a guest at Buckingham palace an old musical march welcomed him. That is what makes tradition a core value of UK.
Mavi Boncuk |
Ottoman Exhibition March | Osmanlı Sergi Marşı (1863) composed by Callisto Guatelli Paşa [1] performed under the direction of Emre Araci[2]
[1] Callisto Guatelli Pasha, an Italian who served the sultans as the director of the palace orchestra in Istanbul. Guatelli succeeded Giuseppe Donizetti Pasha in the same post; the eldest brother of Gaetano Donizetti
[2] Dr. Emre Araci is a musicologist at the University of Cambridge.
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