Damascus-SANA
The Arab Cultural Center in Al-Adawi hosted a traditional evening, during which the center’s audience heard a combination of Al-Qudud Al-Halabi and Al-Muwashahat performed by the young singers Sherif Al-Agha and Zainab Ahmed with the orchestra led by musician Bassam Al-Tabbaa.
The beginning of the evening was chosen by Al-Tabbaa to be Sama’i Bayat composed by Syrian artist Sami Al-Shawa, to perform after that Zainab Ahmed’s song “Ya Fajr When It Rise” by singer Nahawand and composed by Mustafa Kreidieh, as she sang Moashah when he wanted to be sung.
Zainab, from the Syrian heritage, also sang the song "Hal Asmar Al-Loun" and Salem Habito, with the most memorable performance of the audience, and they interacted with her by applause and singing.
Ibn Aleppo al-Shahba Sharif al-Agha performed a group of qudud and muwashahat, which began with Muwashah Ya Shadi, composed by Sayed Darwish, the Prophet Yama, Malik Ya Halaweh Malik, Fishing the Succulent, Ya Taira Fly, O Pigeon, send me an answer, and under its howl and over the palm trees, and concluded the evening with the song “Khamrat Love” for the great late Sabah Fakhri.
In a statement to SANA reporter, Reem Taylouni, head of the Arab Cultural Center in Al-Adawi, said that the evening, which celebrated the Syrian and Arab heritage, comes within a plan carried out by the center to implement the visions of the Ministry of Culture in shedding light on the intangible heritage distinguished by its ancient and rooted in our homeland as an identity and belonging, and working to preserve and promote it in all its spectrums and contribute. In reviving it, publishing it, and shedding light on it, to revive our ancient past.
In turn, Sharif Al-Agha stated that the aim of the evening is to remind the audience of the heritage and pass it on to generations, stressing the need for the teams that perform the Syrian heritage to be academics and professionals to perform their role correctly.
Hadi Imran
