Damascus-Sana
The bells of Bethlehem moan and the moon of Aleppo is sad and the goodness is now without a companion and is no longer able to cleanse the wounds, but the dear remains dear and everyone asks about who sang the most beautiful words and then left and ascended to the sky while singing. Attendance sheet.
Her departure is an artistic, human and social loss on the Syrian art scene, as she is the one who brought up contemporary generations with her committed voice and unique imprint that she woven with her husband, musician Samir Kouifati, giving the Syrian song a new look full of love and human values away from personal glories.
The testimonies of the companions of the march and the partners of the trip are still present despite the departure of its owner. They spoke with sorrow about the pain of loss and the extent of the loss. Maestro Adnan Fathallah, leader of the Syrian National Orchestra for Arab Music, who had many partnerships with her on the stage of the Damascus Opera House confirmed that the departure of Basilis is a great loss for the children of Syria. An icon of the committed Syrian art, pointing out that she contributed through the musical style that she performed in the formation of the committed artistic personality and became an intellectual value influencing people and society.
Regarding his personal experience with her, he said, "I have been joined by many partnerships with the able Basilis, with complete musical programs for her, and she is one of the few who preserved the Syrian song and its identity. All her songs were presented exclusively in the Syrian dialect, and she is an example for all singers in preserving, singing and consolidating our accent."
The conductor of the Oriental Music Orchestra, Maestro Nazih Asaad, said, “I was a follower of the late’s journey with the musician Kuivati, who weaved the melody thread on her voice, a problem in their coherence with each other, a unique and rare case in Syria, so they chose a style of singing that contributed to raising the value of the Syrian song and drawing a special identity through which she was able To convey a pure image of her performance and sincere feeling to all people.
On the human level, Asaad described the late woman with the high human condition in dealing with others, as she was close to the musicians and the choir singer during the preparation of her concerts, providing them with positive energy, stressing that she made a new line in the field of performance and high-end song in addition to presenting the different musical style and the school of renewal and modernity in the Syrian song, whether from In terms of composition, performance, melody, and even the personality and charisma of the song.
Maestro Hussam Primo, founder of the Alwan choir for collective singing, began his speech about the late Basilis by saying, "We are not satisfied with it yet, as it gave the elegant form of the Syrian song and took it to a beautiful and elegant place, and her obsession remained to achieve an addition in it far from seeking personal glories and rising from the commercial crowd in the song market." Her departure is a great loss for the Syrian art of singing, because she was with her husband once again in the Syrian song in terms of word, melody and performance.
Academic singer Linda Bitar, a professor of oriental singing at the Higher Institute of Music, expressed her sadness at the departure of "Set Al Kul" as she calls it indicating that she and her colleagues learned from her the style of the Syrian song and opened the door for them in strengthening the Syrian identity and said, "Her absence will form a gap, but I promised her spirit that I will try with Our female colleagues preserve this song and carry its cause with our voices, just as Basilis did with her exceptional voice. ”
The expatriate opera singer, Firas Bitar, found that Mayada's departure was a great sadness and an irreplaceable loss, because with her departure, Syria lost a person and a rare voice in the Arab world, so it was an exceptional case of sadness and spirit that will not be repeated.
Music critic Ahmed Pops believed that the late singer formed a new line in Arabic singing away from the traditional emotional songs and began her artistic career as a child in the Vanguards of the Baath Organization and was known by Samir Kouifati when she was young, to be with him a successful artistic duo who gathered in their Western-style music songs without giving up On the originality of Arab music, the patriotic song was presented in a different way, and its departure was a painful blow to the Syrian musical art.
Writer and journalist Diana Jabbour described the late as a nun in the Syrian song, which is a unique case of sweetness, originality, kindness, morals and passion, and it is difficult to repeat in the artistic community, and she was with her husband a rare combination, describing her departure as a great and painful loss, which may turn into a disaster if we are not able to complete what I started.