Persian Oud
- Wednesday's oud concert, concluding the Oud Festival, featured a Persian quartet from Los Angeles. The US Cultural Attache introduced them in English, saying they showed American influence. Aside from the lead singer's possibly American accent, I couldn't sense any.
- Words to the poetry by Attar (http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/A/AttarFaridud/ ), Rumi (http://www.khamush.com/), and Nurbakhsh. For the concert of Asher Mizrahi's work (http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.com/2006/11/oud.html), they projected the words on a screen behind the musicians. For this one they projected views of the musicians, which gave us closeups of nimble fingers on oud, psaltery (played with qwo tiny hammers shaped like spoons or miniature skis), and drums.
- This oud was shaped like a figure 8.
- The music took us east, reminding me of India or even China.
- (Note the comment below. Now I'll try to discover whether "oud" and "psaltery" are general enough terms to include the instruments at this concert.)
Copyright 2006 Jane S. Fox
Labels: entertainment, Jerusalem Oud Festival, jerusalem theater, music, oud
posted by Jane S.Fox at 11:01 AM
1 Comments:
Ironically enough, there was no oud at that concert. The instrument you're calling an oud was a tar. There was also a setar played by the guy on the right during the second half, and the string insrument played with the little hammers was a santur.
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