TEHRAN -- The Sacred Defense Museum has recently commissioned the guest conductor of the Tehran Symphonic Orchestra Majid Entezami to compose a piece in commemoration of the Iranian victims of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, which is known in Iran as the Sacred Defense.
“I am currently working a musical piece with theme of martyrdom of the unknown soldiers who were martyred during the war, prisoners of war and the people who were wounded,” Entezami told the Persian service of FNA on Sunday.
The composition will be ready to perform at the beginning of the anniversary of the war on September 21, he added.
Entezami began to compose “The Karun Symphony” in 2010 after he received a commission from the Iran Music Association and the Iran Water and Power Resources Development Company.
The symphony was created in order to play up the construction of the Karun-3 and Karun-4 dams, both of which have devoured a part of the Iran’s cultural heritage over the past six years.
Entezami conducted the Tehran Symphonic Orchestra, which performed the symphony in several concerts in Tehran in early July of this year.
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