The launch of the dual flute and elephant project during a musical evening at Dar Al-Assad

Damascus-Sana

The project of the flute and fugitive duo “Rhapsody” for academic musicians Tariq Hatim and Rahaf Shekhani was launched this evening during an evening hosted by the Drama Theater at Dar Al-Assad for Culture and Arts.

The aim of the project is to show the mixing of the two instruments to the Syrian audience and to introduce them to their chromatic, musical and technical capabilities, in addition to the fact that the partnership between the flute and the fugitive is spread globally, as many authors have composed for her distinguished and technically and musically difficult works.

The evening program was varied and simulated together the works presented on the stage of international theaters, where the duo Tariq and Rahaf presented a musical piece by the French composer Clemens de Grandval, written specifically in the form of the two flute and the fugitive at the end of the nineteenth century, showing the graceful nature of the notes of the flute and the melancholy of the strings of the fugitive.

The duo also presented a piece that was also written for flute and the fugitive in 1935 by composer Jacques Ebert as well as a bouquet of Christoph Willibald Gluck's most famous musical works through a piece of the opera “Orpheus and Ordice”.

In a statement by Lana, the player Sheikhani explained that the work experience between the two instruments, the runaway and the flute, began through her work with the musician Tariq in the National Symphony Orchestra, stressing that during musical evenings there is often space for these two instruments to perform together in the work of the orchestra.

She explained that there was also an important experience where they shared stage as soloists with the Syrian National Symphony Orchestra and played the famous concerto for the flute and fugitive instruments for Mozart, which encouraged them to launch their two-flute and fugitive project "Rhapsody", confirming their continuous work to provide an example for the Syrian audience and the next generation of students Music.

It is noteworthy that Rahaf is a major player in the Syrian symphony and school of the fugitive instrument at the Higher Institute of Music and the Solhi El-Wadi Institute. Bologna and participated in several professional workshops with international escapist players. She also holds a university degree from the Department of Visual Communication at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Damascus and continues to work in both fields.

As for the musician Tariq Hatim, he is a teacher at the Higher Institute of Music and a lead player in the Syrian Symphony and in the Ziad Rahbani Ensemble and holds a license from the Higher Institute of Music, specializing in Flute, and also holds a master's degree from Germany with a very good grade and has participated in many concerts as a soloist in Syria and abroad.

Rasha Mahfoud