Damascus-SANA
Syria has a large stock of authentic intangible heritage, as those working in the cultural affairs in all fields try to document, preserve and preserve it to be accessible to lovers of this land rich in creativity, beauty and human achievement.
And based on the importance of the intangible heritage, the Khumsi band, music from the spirit of the East, under the supervision of Maestro Adnan Fathallah, chose to have its evening on the sidelines of the Syrian Book Fair dedicated to one of the heritage elements, namely the Aleppo Qudoud and the Muwashahat on the stage of the Al-Assad National Library in Damascus.
And because the Al-Qudud Al-Halabi is one of the original Syrian Arab musical arts that Al-Shahba has been famous for since ancient times, a five-year program of music came from the spirit of the East, a variety of the maqams of the Hijaz, the Bayat and the Rast, in addition to the instrumental music that Fathallah worked on.
The evening was attended by singer Mahmoud Haddad and musicians Fathallah on the oud, Taima Nasr on the law, George Tannous on violin, Muhammad Namiq on cello, and Mazen Hamza on percussion. Al-Lulul Al-Mnoodd and lol Blolo, Shelah Habibi, and the nightingale Naghi and Bali are with you and you have dominated me and your destiny.
The second part of the evening was started by the band playing an instrumental piece entitled “Atefeh”, after which it presented a link from the maqam of the bayat with a degree of sul, which included “Dollab Bayat, Mawal and White for Akdra, the first ten of my beloved, and Al-Qarsiah and Zawalef”.
In the last part of the evening, the quintet presented instrumental music titled “From the Revelation of Damascus” to conclude the evening with a compass from the maqam of Rast of the degree du, which consisted of Taksim Oud and Flying Birds, Ya Hamama and Ya Mal al-Sham.
It is noteworthy that the quintet “Music from the Spirit of the East” includes professional Syrian musicians, teachers and graduates of the Higher Institute of Music, who have taken it upon themselves to present classical Arabic instrumental music within the templates of the Samai, Longa and Dolab, in addition to performing Arabic classical songs.
Rasha Mahfoud