Poetry And Music In Union As Adonis And Naseer Shamma Take Centre Stage For Abu Dhabi Classics And Bait Al Oud Concert Series

Adonis, among today's greatest living poets, along with Oud master Naseer Shamma are to execute together for the latest installment for Abu Dhabi Classics international concert period, provided by Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority (TCA Abu Dhabi).

The duo will require to the stage on Thursday, 17th December at Emirates Palace Auditorium in Abu Dhabi for an evening entitled 'Reflections of Poetry as well as Music'.

"We are looking forward to a historic evening with 2 of the greatest musicians from the Arabic World. We have actually been dealing with this job for a long period of time and also are very delighted that it is finally reviving in Abu Dhabi," claimed Sara Al Shakar, TCA Abu Dhabi.

"Like no other night of the Classics Season, this performance, which is occurring in cooperation with Bait Al Oud music academy, will certainly permit us to recognize just how songs and also poetry are two sides of one global imaginative expression.".

Syrian-born Adonis has a worldwide credibility as a poet and also is the writer of various collections, including Mihyar of Damascus, A Time Between Ashes and Roses, If Only the Sea Could Sleep, The Pages of Day as well as Night and The Blood of Adonis, the winner of the Syria-Lebanon Award of the International Poetry Forum.

He is also an essayist, an editor of anthologies, a theoretician of poetics, and also the translator of numerous works from French into Arabic. He has been a Lebanese consumer given that 1963 and has stayed in Paris considering that 1986.

Naseer Shamma was born in 1963 in Iraq and also started studying the Oud at the age of 12 obtaining his diploma from the Baghdad Academy of Music in 1987. He has actually comprised music for movies, plays and tv. His compositions are culturally special and he plays the instrument in such a way which integrates old approaches with his very own contemporary make-ups.

He has formerly constructed an eight-string Oud adhering to the composition of the 9th century music theorist Al-Farabi. This new design (eight instead of 6 strings) broadened the music variety of the Oud and provided it an unique tonality.

Dr Ronald Perlwitz, Head of Music Programme, TCA Abu Dhabi, said: "Adonis' verse incorporates the themes of fluidness, expatriation, transformation with a clear homage to the practice of Arab composing. He has actually gotten to, like no other Arabic author of his generation, global fame and is today considered as one of today's greatest living poets. His performance wtih Oud legend Naseer Shamma stands for an artistic taking place of prime significance both regionally and also worldwide. A remarkable, uncompromising, utterly fantastic and also captivating performance awaits the general public.".

While this concert offers an end Abu Dhabi Classics for 2015, the season continues in the New Year as well as runs until May with performances across the emirate by Spanish band Sinfnica de Galicia, Kremerata Baltica with Gidon Kremer as well as Martha Argerich, Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, China Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as Maththias Goerne.