The exhibition titled “From ‘Mavilim’ to the Yunus Emre Oratorio: The Journey of Music in the Capital of the Republic,” which traces Atatürk’s music revolution to elevate national Turkish music to a universal level, has opened at Pembe Köşk.
M. FERHAT YÜKSEL
“From ‘Mavilim’ to the Yunus Emre Oratorio: The Journey of Music in the Capital of the Republic” has opened at Pembe Köşk. İnönü Foundation President Özden Toker—the daughter of İsmet İnönü—and her family, former minister Hikmet Sami Türk, conductors Rengim Gökmen and Gürel Aykal, along with many figures from the arts world, attended the opening.
INSTITUTIONS AND FIGURES INTRODUCED
The exhibition presents the music and arts policies of the early Republic, the institutional arrangements made, the events organized, and the individuals who served and were trained on this path. The diploma awarded in 1948 to Ahmet Adnan Saygun—who won the İnönü Art Award in the music category with the “Yunus Emre Oratorio”—is also on display for the first time at İsmet Paşa’s residence. The show also features personal belongings of the İnönü family and the seats that İsmet Paşa and Mevhibe Hanım used in the 1930s to attend classical music concerts in the hall of the Conservatory Building in Cebeci.
Curator Filiz Gencer said they set up a flow from the Music Teachers’ School (Musiki Muallim Mektebi) and the Presidential Symphony Orchestra (CSO) to the conservatory, adding: “Visitors can see how the great music revolution of the Republic began, how it progressed, and the sacrifices made along the way.”
The exhibition will be open to visitors until November 30.4
