Damascus-Sana
The Syrian National Symphony Orchestra, led by Maestro Misak Pagboudrian, accompanied the Syrian audience, who loved classical music, on a journey that reached the old with the new on its evening entitled “Oud… Loot… the Grandfather and the Grandson”, the first of its activities for the year 2021.
The evening was a meeting between several generations of musical instruments on the stage of the opera stage at Dar Al-Assad for Culture and Arts, and its program included old dances and songs of the lotus instrument, an Italian dance and a song from the court by Jean-Baptiste Pizar and a piece entitled Ceciliana and Pascalia.
In the second part of the evening, the group presented a fantasy of the oud and an orchestra, which included a solo play of the oud by an adnawi lute, dances and old songs for the lute that was recently designed as a development of the oud.
The evening was marked by the beautiful mixing of the oud and the lute, as the virtuosity of the player Adnawi appeared in the fantasy of the oud and the orchestra that he composed.
Adnawi told Sana al-Thaqafy that the piece was presented for the first time in Syria in this way, and it includes 3 movements in the spirit of the oud presenting a lively and loud breath in addition to a dialogue between the oud and the orchestra and a short graphic piece in which there is improvisation on the oud and linking the first, second and third movements with the same Sharqi. Momentum for music and the emergence of Oud in a different way.
It is noteworthy that the Syrian National Symphony Orchestra was founded by the late musician Salhi al-Wadi in 1993 as a natural result of the creation of the Higher Institute of Music and for many years of tireless work in the field of spreading classical music in Syria and the country has been represented by its civilized face in many international festivals and forums. It is also working continuously to expand Its program and presenting masterpieces of world music to the Syrian audience.
Miss Al-Ani and Rasha Mahfoud