Damascus-Sana
The Syrian Nakhhat Orchestra, led by musician Ihab Qutaish, was able to prove the ability of these instruments to present various musical pieces and give them a special Syrian touch through the musical evening hosted by the Opera Theater at Dar Al-Assad for Culture and Arts.
The evening, in which he participated as a soloist, the musician, Wissam Al-Shaer, on the Ukrainian instrument was distinguished by the diversity of its program, as the band played eight pieces from various foreign countries with its musical identity from Sweden, Spain, America, Russia, Italy and Brazil.
The evening, which was accompanied by playing the piano by the musician Nour Kouyvati, and the distribution of some of her tunes by the two young musicians Mahdi Al Mahdi and Suhaib Al-Samman, was distinguished by the depth of the pieces that carry rich dramatic stories from Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker and the Spanish Tango and three Russian pieces: “The Marsh, A Little Story and Waltz”.
In the evening he played a few pieces from Italian films entitled "Moments with" Enyo Morriconi "written by the Italian musician Morriconi who left a few months ago and has an important imprint in the field of graphic music, where he composed and composed more than 500 films, and the evening ended with a famous Brazilian piece entitled" Tico Tico. " No Foley ”.
It is noteworthy that the Puffer Orchestra consists of pneumatic, wood and brass instruments and percussion instruments, and aims to create job opportunities for graduates and players of all these instruments, and to establish an independent "artistic and technical" entity for the orchestra and to create groups for chamber music from within the orchestra to play various programs from the Syrian heritage and from the world heritage.
Rasha Mahfoud