Salah El Mahdi: Difference between revisions

'''Salah El Mahdi''' ({{lang-ar|صالح المهدي}}; born '''Mohamed Ibn Abderrahmane Ben Salah Mehdi Chérifi''' on February 9, 1925 in [[Tunis]] and died September 12, 2014 in Tunis<ref> {{fr}} Tunivisions [http://www.tunivisions.net/55137/235/149/tunisie-necrologie-la-scene-musicale-en-deuil-suite-au-deces-ce-vendredi-de-salah-el-mehdi.html “Tunisie , Nécrologie : La scène musicale en deuil suite au décès ce vendredi de Salah El Mehdi”] A.CHENNOUFI</ref>{{Failed verification|reason=no place of death given|date=September 2014}}) was a Tunisian musicologist, conductor, composer, flautist, music critic and judge.

At the age of 18 he left the capital of Tunis to [[La Marsa]] and gave music lessons to students. In 1949, he became director of the institution and ensemble there<ref name="Davis2004">{{cite book|last=Davis|first=Ruth Frances|title=Maʻlūf: Reflections on the Arab Andalusian Music of Tunisia|url=httphttps://books.google.com/books?id=L39JSk_d-PgC&pg=PA56|accessdate=30 April 2012|year=2004|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-5138-2|page=56}}</ref> and was appointed honorary member of the [[Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique|SACEM]]. He was appointed as a judge on November 11, 1951, while assuming the job of music critic in several newspapers. In theater, he performed several roles with the troupe ''[[El Kaoukab]]'' of Tunis, and wrote plays for radio.

In 1961, he was appointed to the Secretariat of State for Culture and information. He helped establish the National Folk Arts Troupe (1962), the [[Tunisian Symphony Orchestra]] (1969), the National Society of Preservation of the Quran and the National School of Chanting the Koran. In 1982, he became general manager of the national cultural activities until his retirement and served as director of the [[Tunisian Conservatory]] for many years.<ref name="Storb2000">{{cite book|last=Storb|first=Ilse|title=Jazz Meets the World - the World Meets Jazz|url=httphttps://books.google.com/books?id=40FU7dEiB78C&pg=PA187|accessdate=30 April 2012|year=2000|publisher=LIT Verlag Münster|isbn=978-3-8258-3748-8|page=187}}</ref>

Indeed by 1987 he was said to be "director of all of the country's musical organizations."<ref name="Daniélou1987">{{cite book|last=Daniélou|first=Alain|title=The Way to the Labyrinth: Memories of East and West|url=httphttps://books.google.com/books?id=y_eT1f125vcC&pg=PA294|accessdate=30 April 2012|date=1 April 1987|publisher=New Directions Publishing|isbn=978-0-8112-1015-7|page=294}}</ref>