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Musical year of operation and songs
such as “Vivre”, “Belle” and
Adapted from Victor Hugo’s immortal love story The Hunchback “Le Temps Des Cathédrales”
of Notre-Dame, Notre Dame De Paris musical is finally coming were at top of the music
back to Istanbul for a 21-performance run in its original lan- charts for a long time. With
guage French, at Zorlu Performing Arts Center between March a combined DVD and CD
9th and 25th! sales totaling more than 10
million copies, ticket sales
The love story of Notre-Dame de Paris musical started in 1998 in excess of 12 million, over
in Paris and still continues today. Adapted from Victor Hugo’s 4500 performances in 20
classical love story The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, music of this countries in eight languages,
modern work of art was composed by Riccardo Cocciante while and numerous awards; there
Luc Plamondon wrote the lyrics. are simply not enough super-
latives to describe the suc-
Nearly 20 years after its first performance, the love story that cess of Notre Dame de Paris.
began in Palais des Congres Paris continues to be staged with
the same great excitement and lure the audience with the same Having received a great deal of attention in every city it has been
appeal. Surely, when Luc Plamondon and Richard Cocciante performed for years; the musical was staged at Zorlu Performing
started their collaboration on the idea of a Notre Dame de Paris Arts Center in English. This time, the musical is coming back to
musical spectacular, they could not have imagined reaching such the stage of Zorlu Performing Arts Center to be performed in its
a huge achievement. original language French. Notre Dame De Paris is coming back
for 21 performances between 9 March and 25 March. Do not
Notably, the show has been recorded in the Guinness Book of miss the opportunity to witness one of the most important works
World Records for the largest sales of tickets ever in the first of art in the history of musicals.

Exhibition Concert

Seydi Murat Koç’s new exhibition British, experimental
called “Internal Time” can be jazz trio GoGo Penguin
seen at D Design Gallery between will be at Zorlu PSM
3 March and 7 April. Curated by Studio with their hyp-
Hasan Bülent Kahraman, the exhi- notizing songs on April
bition is a sequel to the artist’s Ver- 21st within the scope
tigo and Gravity exhibition series of the introductory tour
launched in 2016. of their new album A
Humdrum Star.
“Internal Time”, a personal ex-
hibition by Seydi Murat Koç, will Noted for their hypnotic
be opened at D Design Gallery on melodies, visceral bass-
3 March 2018. Internal Time is a lines and tidal rhythm,
sequel to the artist’s Vertigo and Gravity exhibition series that were Manchester-based left-
launched in 2016. New works that complement the story accom- field piano trio GoGo
pany the pictures exhibited in the first series. The exhibition can be Penguin are pianist
seen until 7 April 2018. Chris Illingworth, bassist Nick Blacka and drummer Rob
Turner. Their music has been described as acoustic-elec-
Frequently standing out among its contemporaries with his creative tronica but they draw equally on rock, jazz and minimal-
works, Seyidi Murat Koç takes the objects and images that we know ism, game soundtracks and glitchy-electronica to create
and turn them into new images, scenes and situations that we mostly their unique music. It is a music for the heart, head and
cannot place. This time using objects and images that he carries feet. Their album v2.0 (Gondwana records) was named
from real life into the exhibition, the artist redefines the world or- a Mercury Prize album of the year in 2014. In 2015
der that he had fictionalized from scratch in Vertigo and Gravity the trio signed to Blue Note Records and released the
through architecture and antiquity. He designs new installations by album Man Made Object in 2016. More recently, they
combining the pieces of demolished buildings, which he collected have been touring their own score to Godfrey Reggio’s
from Fikirtepe district, a neighborhood that is completely being cult film Koyaanisqatsi. Their new album, A Humdrum
changed by urban transformation. Therefore, Seydi Murat Koç cre- Star will be released on February 9, 2018.
ates memory boards on which the pieces become immortalized and
do not disappear forever.