The 2nd World Music Festival “Voices from East to West” was held for 4 days in Essen, Germany. Oriental music represented the centerpiece of the festival, which was revived by international stars, such as Einur Dogan, Kinan Al-Azma and Anwar Ibrahim, in the orchestra hall, in parallel with local stars who revived it in the open air, to prove that music can easily transcend cultural and geographical boundaries.
The festival bridged East and West and delved deeper into the many similarities shared by the two cultures, with musicians from Lebanon, Turkey, Tunisia, Syria and Iran playing their music in collaboration with local musicians.
Rainbow
Aynur’s concert was considered one of the most prominent evenings, as it presented Kurdish folk songs in a new dress, as it mixed them with elements of pop, classical and jazz, through a captivating, dazzling and striking form.
The Syrian clarinetist Kinan Al-Azma combined the music of his homeland with music from other countries and genres in the “City Band”, which he founded in 2006 in New York, and was able to provoke the audience’s auditory taste and fly with him in the sky of high-sensual music. . The “Syrian Troubadour” met with the Syrian jazz band “Hewar”, in which artist Kinan Al-Azma and singer Dima Orcho from Damascus participated.
Tunisian musician Anouar Ibrahim, one of the world’s creators of the oud, was able to transport the audience into his musical world through his own compositions that are difficult to classify in terms of style and improvisations influenced by jazz.
As for Ibrahim Kivu, he sang in Kurdish, Syriac, Armenian, Assyrian and Arabic about daily life, about hospitality, love and heroic deeds.
Outdoor concerts were also held inside the city park, with the participation of the local orchestra of foreign origin. Workshops were also held to learn about stringed instruments and instruments of oriental bands, in addition to an exhibition on the history of art in Syria and oriental specialties, hand drawing with henna and a calligraphy course.
open opera
Ahmed Imo, director of the Media Cultural and Educational Media Center in Germany, explained that they had received an invitation to cooperate as a permanent media partner for the festival. He said: The festival in its current session is a bridge to opera open to all music connoisseurs of all peoples, and it has achieved great public interaction, and was attractive to German musicians. He added, “Through such activities, we seek to achieve the greatest interaction between different nationalities in a way that serves and achieves the dissemination and devotion of a culture of acceptance of the other and the spread and promotion of the spirit of tolerance.”
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