{"id":1893,"date":"2018-04-05T02:07:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T00:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/?p=1893"},"modified":"2026-09-24T21:40:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T19:40:01","slug":"1893","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/en\/2018\/04\/05\/1893\/","title":{"rendered":"Incense of Music 25 &#8211; Bellanova, Flaig"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1893\" class=\"elementor elementor-1893\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-93fdfc8 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"93fdfc8\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ebff016\" data-id=\"ebff016\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c6628f3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"c6628f3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\n<div class=\"iom-concert\">\n \n  <p class=\"iom-title\">Incense of Music 25<\/p>\n  <p class=\"iom-program-title\">Trommel und Wind<\/p>\n  <p class=\"iom-subtitle\">A multisensory concert \u2013 <strong>Saturday, 21 April 2018, 7 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n \n  <div class=\"iom-musicians\">\n    <p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/valentina-bellanova\/\">Valentina Bellanova<\/a><\/strong>: ney, recorders<\/p>\n    <p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/sebastian-flaig\/\">Sebastian Flaig<\/a><\/strong>: percussion<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n \n  <p class=\"iom-incense\">Incense: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/weihrauch\/\">Frankincense<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/labdanum\/\">Labdanum<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \n  <p class=\"iom-location\">Salon Dreiklang, Paul-Robeson-Strasse 47, 10439 Berlin<\/p>\n \n  <p>Incense of Music 25 celebrates a quarter century of concerts, presenting for the occasion sounds, scents, and suggestions from the millennia-old relationship and tension between Orient and Occident. The duo \"Trommel und Wind\" (\"Drum and Wind,\" <a href=\"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/valentina-bellanova\/\">Valentina Bellanova<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/sebastian-flaig\/\">Sebastian Flaig<\/a>) undertakes a journey connecting medieval and contemporary, north and south, Arabic, Turkish, Italian, Greek, and German traditions. <a href=\"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/weihrauch\/\">Frankincense<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/labdanum\/\">labdanum<\/a> will be burned for the occasion \u2014 storied treasures of humanity's olfactory imagination.<\/p>\n \n  <p><em>For guests who are particularly sensitive to smoke, this event is not recommended.<\/em><\/p>\n \n  <div class=\"iom-video-wrap\">\n    <iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PDW8X29Iyh0\" title=\"Incense of Music 25 \u2013 live\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n  <\/div>\n \n  <div class=\"iom-video-wrap\">\n    <iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZWEFCxhXYGo\" title=\"Incense of Music 25 \u2013 live\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n  <\/div>\n \n  <h2 class=\"iom-section-title\">Artists<\/h2>\n \n  <div class=\"iom-artist\">\n    <div class=\"iom-artist-photo\">\n      <img src=\"http:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/28722093_10156170790582156_1059995931_n.jpg\" alt=\"Valentina Bellanova\">\n    <\/div>\n    <p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/valentina-bellanova\/\">Valentina Bellanova<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 ney, recorders<\/p>\n    <p>Valentina Bellanova was born in Florence, where she studied musicology and humanities at the University of Florence, as well as recorder at the Florence Conservatory. She came to Germany for further studies in Artistic Training and the Soloist Class at the University of Music, Drama and Media in Hanover, moving permanently to Berlin in early 2014. For several years, Valentina has been deeply involved with classical Turkish and Arab music. She plays both Turkish and Arabic ney as well as zurna, a Turkish folk instrument. She studied ney and modal music with teachers including Ross Daly, \u00d6mer Erdogdular, and Kudsi Erguner, and recorder and early music with David Bellugi and Federico Maria Sardelli in Italy and Prof. Dr. Ulrich Thieme at the HMTM Hanover. With ney and zurna, she performs regularly in theatre productions, including as a soloist at the Landestheater Th\u00fcringen, at NDR Hanover, at the Kulturforum Frankfurt (Oder), at the Komische Oper Berlin, at HAU Theater Berlin, and at Staatstheater Braunschweig. She also performs regularly with several music projects: Berlin Oriental Group, Babylon Orchestra, Nawa Ensemble Berlin, Concerto Foscari (an international early music ensemble), Wedding Orchestra for Middle East Music, and the duo Winds and Percussion with Sebastian Flaig. She is also active in editorial work, having published the first edition of the recorder concertos by Neapolitan composer Nicola Fiorenza (published by Girolamo). Beyond her work as a freelance musician, she has taught recorder at German music schools for over ten years, with students ranging from age four to eighteen as well as adults.<\/p>\n    <p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.valentinabellanova.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">valentinabellanova.com<\/a><\/p>\n  <\/div>\n \n  <div class=\"iom-artist\">\n    <div class=\"iom-artist-photo\">\n      <img src=\"http:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/29026073_10156179725032156_734541224110718976_n.jpg\" alt=\"Sebastian Flaig\">\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"iom-photo-credit\">Photo by Luca Stravalacci<\/div>\n    <p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/sebastian-flaig\/\">Sebastian Flaig<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 percussion<\/p>\n    <p>Sebastian Flaig, from Freiburg, studied ethnic percussion and jazz drum set at the Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik Leipzig under Alexander Bauer, Axel Sch\u00fcler, and Heinrich K\u00f6bberling. To deepen his knowledge of oriental percussion, he lived for a year in Istanbul, studying with various masters, including darbuka virtuoso Misirli Ahmet. He learned Persian percussion with Behnam Samani. His stylistic range spans oriental music, jazz, and contemporary music through to early music, performing in ensembles including the Taner Akyol Trio, with Maya Youssef, Pain Perdu, the KalhorFlaig Duo, Susan Weinert, Ensemble Adapter, the Lautten Compagney Berlin, and the Musikwerkstatt K\u00f6ln. Sebastian has performed as a soloist with the Staatsorchester Braunschweig, the Hamburg Symphony, and the Mittels\u00e4chsische Philharmonie, as well as in various dance and theatre productions, including at the Komische Oper, the Stadttheater Freiburg, and the Bauhaus Dessau. In 2018 he won the German Record Critics' Award for ethnic music with Maya Youssef for \"Syrian Dreams.\" He has composed music for documentary films and theatre productions, and has toured Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Bulgaria, and South America, among other regions.<\/p>\n    <p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sebastianflaig.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sebastianflaig.com<\/a><\/p>\n  <\/div>\n \n  <h2 class=\"iom-section-title\">Incense<\/h2>\n \n  <div class=\"iom-plant\">\n    <div class=\"iom-plant-photo\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/weihrauch\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Boswellia_sacra.jpg\" alt=\"Boswellia sacra flowers\"><\/a>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"iom-plant-text\">\n      <span class=\"iom-plant-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/weihrauch\/\">Frankincense<\/a><\/span>\n      <p>Frankincense comes from small, deciduous trees of the genus Boswellia, growing in the arid regions of Somalia, Yemen, Oman, and other parts of the Horn of Africa, as well as the Arabian Peninsula and India. Incisions in the bark release a milky sap that hardens in the air into aromatic, tear-shaped resin lumps, known as \"frankincense tears.\" The ancient Egyptians called these resin pearls the \"sweat of the gods.\" More than 82% of the world's frankincense production still comes from Somalia today.<\/p>\n      <p>Frankincense ranks among the oldest and most precious incense materials in human history, traded for over 5,000 years along the legendary Incense Route connecting Arabia to the Mediterranean. It played a central role in the religious rites of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, as well as in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam \u2014 appearing in the New Testament as one of the three gifts brought to the infant Jesus. For centuries it was so highly prized that its value matched that of gold.<\/p>\n      <p>Burned as incense, frankincense releases a warm, resinous scent with subtle notes of citrus and pine. It is regarded by many as the archetypal incense material, still associated today with purification, prayer, and the creation of sacred space across numerous religious traditions worldwide.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n \n  <div class=\"iom-group-photo\">\n    <img src=\"http:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/800px-Boswellia_sacra_in_Wadi_Dowkah_Dhofar.jpg\" alt=\"Boswellia sacra in Dhofar\">\n  <\/div>\n  <p class=\"iom-group-photo-credit\">Boswellia sacra in Dhofar<\/p>\n \n  <div class=\"iom-group-photo\">\n    <img src=\"http:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/800px-NabateensRoutes.png\" alt=\"Trade routes through Nabataean territory\">\n  <\/div>\n  <p class=\"iom-group-photo-credit\">Trade routes through Nabataean territory<\/p>\n \n  <div class=\"iom-group-photo\">\n    <img src=\"http:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/J._Bosch_The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights_detail_3.jpg\" alt=\"The Garden of Earthly Delights, detail\">\n  <\/div>\n  <p class=\"iom-group-photo-credit\">Hieronymus Bosch \u2013 \"The Garden of Earthly Delights\" (detail)<\/p>\n \n  <div class=\"iom-group-photo\">\n    <img src=\"http:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/800px-Fra_bartolomeo_05_The_Incarnation_with_Six_Saints.jpg\" alt=\"The Incarnation with Six Saints\">\n  <\/div>\n  <p class=\"iom-group-photo-credit\">Fra Bartolomeo \u2013 \"The Incarnation with Six Saints\" (1515)<\/p>\n \n  <div class=\"iom-plant\">\n    <div class=\"iom-plant-photo\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/labdanum\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/800px-Cistus_ladanifer_MHNT.BOT_.2012.10.15.jpg\" alt=\"Cistus ladanifer\"><\/a>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"iom-plant-text\">\n      <span class=\"iom-plant-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/labdanum\/\">Labdanum<\/a><\/span>\n      <p>Labdanum is a resin obtained across the Mediterranean from various species of rockrose (Cistus), an independent plant family unrelated to true roses. In summer, an oily resin exudes from the leaves and twigs under the heat of the sun, as though the plant were sweating. Today, most labdanum comes from the gum rockrose (Cistus ladanifer), which produces significantly more resin than other species. In antiquity, the resin of the Cretan rockrose (Cistus creticus) was chiefly used; the Greek scholar Dioscorides described how shepherds drove their goats through dense rockrose thickets, later combing the sticky resin lumps out of the animals' fur and beards \u2014 a harvesting method still practiced in Crete into modern times, using leather straps in place of ropes.<\/p>\n      <p>The name labdanum derives from the Syro-Phoenician word \"ladan,\" meaning \"sticky herb.\" Already in ancient Egypt its sweet, animalic scent was highly prized, forming part of the famous incense blend \"Kyphi.\" For centuries it also served as a remedy and was considered one of antiquity's most coveted aphrodisiacs.<\/p>\n      <p>Burned as incense, labdanum releases a warm, sweet, leathery, animalic scent with a subtle, honey-like depth. In perfumery it remains widely used as a substitute for ambergris, though burned as incense it develops an entirely distinctive character of its own.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n \n  <div class=\"iom-group-photo\">\n    <img src=\"http:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Bordado_de_Castelo_Branco_LusitaniaTradition.com_01-1024x742.jpg\" alt=\"Bordado de Castelo Branco\">\n  <\/div>\n  <p class=\"iom-group-photo-credit\">Bordado de Castelo Branco<\/p>\n \n  <div class=\"iom-group-photo\">\n    <img src=\"http:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Syrischer_Maler_des_Kr\u00e4uterbuchs_des_Dioskurides_001-737x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Dioscorides Herbal\">\n  <\/div>\n  <p class=\"iom-group-photo-credit\">Herbal of Dioscorides, Syrian painter<\/p>\n \n<\/div>\n \t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incense of Music 25 Trommel und Wind A multisensory concert \u2013 Saturday, 21 April 2018, 7 pm Valentina Bellanova: ney, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1893"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9249,"href":"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions\/9249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incenseofmusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}