9/11 TAKSIM: Tanbur Nihavend Taksim- Murat S. TOKAÇ

Cinuçen Tanrıkorur's Lecture-Demonstration on "TAKSIM (Improvisation) in Turkish Music" at The New England Conservatory, Boston, Mass. USA in 1994. Part 9 Cinuçen Tanrıkorur introduces Dr. MURAT SALIM TOKAÇ, to make a taksim on the plucked, fretted TANBUR in the makam Nihavend. Then Tanrıkorur introduces Hafız AHMET ÇALIŞIR and invites him to make a religious vocal improvisation based on a mystical poem called KASIDE in the middle of a Sufi hymn (ilahi) to be performed by the ensemble.