Search Results gessesse Search for gessesse at Tadias Magazine. On April 1. 9, 2. Ethiopians lost the greatest popular musician the country has ever produced, the supremely gifted singer, Tilahun Gessesse. The following is a tribute. Charles Sutton. East Africa ForumPosted here with permissionIntroduction by Shlomo Bachrach. Charles Sutton usually known as Charlie came to Ethiopia with the Peace Corps in 1. He was a musician, and even before he arrived, Charlie had discovered Ethiopian music through his Amharic language instructors. He describes the impact of that discovery, which directed his life toward a deep and lasting relationship with Ethiopia, its people particularly musicians, and its language, in which his fluency and elegance continue to astonish. Elvis Memorial Edition Magazine 1977' title='Elvis Memorial Edition Magazine 1977' />Met deze speciale dubbel CD release worden de eerste twee Elvis albums uit 1956 opnieuw uitgebracht, voorzien van nieuwe liner notes en bonus tracks zoals de singles. Elvis Aaron Presley Tupelo Mississippi, 8 januari 1935 Memphis, 16 augustus 1977 was een Amerikaans zanger en acteur. Hij wordt vaak The King of Rock and. Above Addis Gessesse, the person behind the 2005 concert in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Photo by Ayda Grima for Tadias Magazine. Tadias Magazine Outside With the Insider. Charlie needs only a brief introduction from me since he will provide the rest himself. His friends and acquaintances know Charlie to be a gracious, warm and generous man, thoughtful and polite to a fault. He is still a working musician both as a teacher and a performer. In his jazz, Charlies improvisations reveal the depth to which Ethiopia has entered his soul. In a recent recording, Charlie played masinko and sang, in Amharic, naturally, with two long time Ethiopian musician friends. Characteristically, Charlie often directs the proceeds from his CD sales to the Institute for Ethiopian Studies or another deserving beneficiary. This is the first of a three part appreciation and reminisence by Charles Sutton about his friend, the supremely gifted singer, Tilahun Gessesse, who passed away on April 1. Desktop Notes Windows Ware on this page. Addis Ababa. All of Ethiopia, and music lovers around the world, are in mourning. Shlomo Bachrach. Washington DCClick here to read part ISuttons Tribute to Tilahun Gessesse Part II Ye Muzika Metsihet Part I of my tribute to Tilahun Gessesse concluded on a late summer evening in 1. Amharic teachers and I performed his beautiful song Oo oota Ayaskeffam in a music show during Peace Corps training at the University of Utah. As I begin writing again on the 4. Tilahuns death, I feel privileged to join you once more in commemorating this great, iconic singer. Elvis. com is the Official Website of Elvis Presley, the King of Rock and Roll. Elvis Presley Elvis Presley rocks And so do these statues, framed collectibles, film cells, bobble heads, holiday ornaments, kitchenware, mugs, Tshirts, and you. Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Easily share your publications and get. Elvis-at-the-Graceland-Gates.jpg' alt='Elvis Memorial Edition Magazine 1977' title='Elvis Memorial Edition Magazine 1977' />In Part II, I will attempt to thank Tilahun in a more personal way, by acknowledging how profoundly he affected me during the years I spent as a Peace Corps Volunteerand musical performerin Ethiopia. Perhaps I can best do this by inviting you to revisit with me a second musical event. It occurred almost exactly two years after the Utah show. The date was September 1. Meskerem 1, 1. 96. Grand New Years Music Festival at the Ambassador Theater in Addis Ababa. It was early, a little past eleven oclock in the morning, when I arrived outside the Theater on that long ago New Years Day. Already there was a large, animated crowd of music fans clustered around the box office, basking in the warm spring sunshine as they waited to purchase their tickets for the annual marathon show that would begin at one in the afternoon and continue until late into the night. I paused for a moment near the main entrance to gaze at a large advertising poster on which I saw my name and photograph included along with those of Tilahun and other popular vocalists whose appearances were promised. As I made my way through the throng toward the stage entrance at the rear of the building, a newspaper boy ran after me. Under one arm he clutched a large stack of orange colored magazines. Mister Charles Mister Charles he cried. Music Magazine Published today Hot off the press Limited edition just for the FestivalGreat pictures and write ups of Tilahun, Bizunesh Bekkele, Alemayehu Esheteall the big stars And you, Mister Charles You You are in it too Look With a flourish, he opened a copy and held it up for my inspection. Mister Charles he continued. ZZZ014702-MZ.jpg' alt='Elvis Memorial Edition Magazine 1977' title='Elvis Memorial Edition Magazine 1977' />This fantastic souvenir edition costs only one birr Get yours now, before they are all gone I didnt need any more persuading. Fishing in the single, narrow pocket of my suri, I extracted the few coins necessary to make up the price. By this time, we were surrounded by several more newsboys clamoring for me to buy their copies too. Leaving the sunlight, I escaped with my purchase through the stage door into the cavernous theaters backstage gloom. For the equivalent of U. S. 4. 0 cents, Ye Muzika Metsihet Music Magazine, as I have translated it the text, except for a few English words added for effect to its advertisements, is entirely in Amharic was undoubtedly one of the best bargains I have ever encountered. Much more than a playbill, the metsihet contains in its 7. There is even a section devoted to English and American pop luminaries of the day like Tom Jones, Elvis Presley, and Ray Charles. The attractive cover of Music Magazine features a young, beautiful Asnakech Worku seated amidst spring flowers, plucking the strings of her k All this was the work of Shawul Baminew, a presenter of popular music on Radio Ethiopia. Music Magazine was obviously a labor of love, which I doubt has been equaled before or since. Once inside the theater, I became so absorbed in the magazinewhich today remains one of my most treasured possessionsthat I almost missed my cue. Page 4. 8 of Music Magazine features Charles and Almaz Getachew, the vivacioussinger dancer from Wolayita, performing with Orchestra Ethiopia. As I had done for the first time in Utah, once again I was going before an audience to sing in Amharic, but now as the veteran of dozens of television, concert, and wedding performances during the preceding year and a half with Orchestra Ethiopia, a 1. Long gone were the incongruous button down shirt, striped tie, and slacks of my stateside initiation, replaced by the white cheesecloth cape, long white tunic, and white riding pants that constitute the Ethiopian national dress. Suspended on a leather thong from my left shoulder was a mesenko, which I had spent many laborious hours learning to play. Even though I dressed in Ethiopian costume, sang Ethiopian songs, and made a fair attempt at performing on an Ethiopian musical instrument, you might well wonder how an amateur mesenko playeran American newcomer to the ancient land where the Peace Corps assigned him to be a teacher of Englishcould so rapidly have penetrated the ranks of its seasoned professional entertainers and musicians. The paradoxical explanation is that I owed my improbable career in Ethiopian traditional music directly to the transcendent popularity of Tilahun Gessese. The most quintessentially Ethiopian of all Ethiopian singers, but simultaneously the undisputed avatar of what was then called modern music zemenawi muzikaWestern tinged Ethiopian pop performed on Western musical instruments, Tilahun, and his cohorts in the Imperial Bodyguard the Army and Police Bands followed close on their heels, seemed in those days to sweep all before them, taking the world of Ethiopian music by storm. Some commentators confidently predicted that Ethiopian traditional music and musical instruments would soon face extinction as a result. Page 2. 5 of Music Magazine is devoted to Tilahun Gessesse, 2. Imperial Bodyguard Orchestra. Orchestra Ethiopia, the group with which I had become associated, was founded under the auspices of the Creative Arts Centre of Haile Selassie I University in 1. Egyptian American composer and ethnomusicologist Halim El Dabh, specifically to counter this trend. Elvis Presley Action Figures, Toys, Bobble Heads, Collectibles at Entertainment Earth. Elvis Presley rocks And so do these statues, framed collectibles, film cells, bobble heads, holiday ornaments, kitchenware, mugs, T shirts, and you name it commemorating The King of Rock n Roll. Dont be cruel. Give the gift of Elvis Elvis Aaron Presley January 8, 1. August 1. 6, 1. 97. American singer, musician, and actor. 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