The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Culture sat at the first performance of the Fajr Music Festival/first night and received a remarkable reception from the audience

According to the music reporter of Fars news agency, the 38th Fajr Music Festival was officially started on the evening of Friday 28th of Bahman in the presence of the Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance, Mohammad Mahdi Esmaili, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hossein Amirabdollahian, with the performance of the National Music Orchestra of Iran at Vahdat Hall.

* Hosted by the National Orchestra of Iran

On the first night of this event, Vahdat Hall first hosted the National Music Orchestra of Iran led by Homayun Rahimian.

* Beautiful and professional performance from Hungary

In the second part of the performances of Vahdat Hall, at 21:30 “Duet except for violin and piano” from Hungary was performed on the stage. This violin and piano duet, which was performed in jazz style, can be seen as a very prominent and standard example of the Central and Eastern European reading of jazz and the narrative of this region from the music of black American origin. The music that was the language of the suffering people of color from slavery in the American fields to the cold and coexistence with the buffaloes, which gradually branched off from it, including European ones. And last night we witnessed a perfect performance by these two artists with complete mastery of the instrument and the way of confrontation and dialogue between these two instruments.

* Performing national pieces and presenting them to the earthquake victims

In last night’s performance of the national orchestra, national and patriotic pieces were performed, and most of these pieces were performed with words. This performance was dedicated to the earthquake victims of Khoy, Turkey and Syria. Among the pieces and performance repertoire of this concert, the news of the death of the famous reed player Hassan Nahid was announced by Ni Nawaz, the soloist of this performance, and a piece was also performed in memory and respect of this recently deceased artist.

* Weakness in maintaining rhythm in the national orchestra

In last night’s performance of the national orchestra, unfortunately, the entire orchestra had problems in terms of sound, dynamics, coordination of the bows and especially maintaining the rhythm and head beats, which indicated the lack of proper and principled practice and, in a more explicit language, the lack of a professional conductor for the second largest orchestra of our country.

Nevertheless, the musicians performed the pieces in a good way from the perspective of feeling and communicating with the audience with their good feeling and spirit.

* Encouraging presence of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Culture

At the concert of the first night of Fajr Music Festival, Minister of Foreign Affairs Amir Abdolhian and Minister of Culture Mohammad Mahdi Isma Ali watched this performance. This culture of the presence of high-ranking officials in music concerts can definitely have good consequences for the music scene, because a part of the public opinion is of the opinion that the middle officials are not very familiar with music, and in this sense, their presence can facilitate this view, while Following the arrival of high-ranking officials in musical events, the problems, artistic, livelihood and social problems of the community of artists in this field of art will definitely be brought to the fore and can lead to the improvement of the situation.

*2126 artists present at this year’s Fajr Music Festival

It should be noted that this year 2126 artists are participating in the 38th Fajr Music Festival, 49 men and 27 women are in the non-competitive solo section, 19 groups are in the non-competitive ensemble section, and eight groups are in the competitive performance section.

*Participation of 88 groups from provinces

12 pop groups, five orchestra groups, 28 regional music groups, 2 women’s groups, four music conservatory groups, 14 traditional music groups, five classical groups, 11 hymn groups and 188 groups from the provinces participated in this festival.

*Strengthening the position of the anthem in the 38th festival

This year, seven halls are hosting 87 performances of the festival during 6 nights. Vahdat Hall in the orchestral and international section with 9 performances, Rudaki Hall in the instrumental row section and the Iranian music competition with 23 performances, Niavaran Cultural Center in the women’s and international section with 11 performances, Arsbaran Cultural Center in the hymn and regional music section with 19 performances, Koushk Collection Bagh Honar hosts Fajr Music Festival with 13 programs in the music department.

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