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Abu Dhabi - Bait Al Oud Al Arabi celebrate its first graduate

Global Arab Network - - George Haddad

Saturday, 07 November 2009 14:05

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UAE - Abu Dhabi: Bait Al Oud Al Arabi (The Arabian Oud House) celebrated Friday night the graduation of its first student at the headquarter of the house in Abu Dhabi.

Bait Al Oud Al Arabi (The Arabian Oud House), founded and sponsored two years ago by Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH) under the supervision of oud master Nasser Shamma.

The graduate Ali Obaid is an Emirati nationality performed in this occasion in front of a specialist committee and played some of famous authentic Arab music from deferent schools and eras.

In the night before Nasser Shammaa performed with the house oud Orchestra which consists of students and teachers in the house in the second anniversary of the house at Al Dhafra Theater in the Cultural Foundation.

16 oud players performed in the concert titled "Mural of life... Mural of dream" where students showed their high skills playing number of Arab musical peaces from deferent historical eras starting from Abasi and Andalusia ages when oud was developed and flourished in the Islamic world to the modern ages when great composers like Qasabgi presented some of the best musical Arab works combining great singer Um Kalthoum.

The surprise of the concert was young musician Ahmed Al Shaikh 9-year-old who showed a very high skills performing on the oldest oriental instrument "Qanon". Shammaa considered Ahmed as a very talented to be able to perform on such instrument "it is philosophers instrument was invented by the philosopher and scantiest Al Farabi [864-950] and it was used by philosophers to test their theories"

Another two young talents Zaina and here brother Mohammed Essam (12 and 10 year-old) performed on Qanon showing a hormone performance in a duet peace.

Shammaa considered launching the house in Abu Dhabi and having more students learning the oud is a great achievement and another step forward to his childhood dream; to find oud in every body's hands.

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