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 Re: سودانيون : حمزة علاء الدين (Re: Dr.Abbas Mustafa)
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ويكتب عنه جيسي هاملين في سان فرانسيسكو كورونيكل:
Troubadour From Upper Nile Comes Home
JESSE HAMLIN, Chronicle Staff Writer Friday, June 7, 1996
Hamza's back in town. That would be Hamza El Din, the Nubian musician whose rich marriage of Arabic and Nubian sounds has mesmerized international audiences for three decades. After 14 years in Japan, the master of Middle Eastern music has moved back to Baghdad by the Bay.
``I was homesick for the U.S.,'' says El Din, who lived in the Bay Area for many years. ``Even if I go to Nubia, San Francisco feels like home.''
A native of the ancient upper Nile land now divided between Egypt and the Sudan, El Din performs his hypnotic and quietly passionate music tonight, Saturday and Sunday at the Palace of Fine Arts for the opening of the 18th annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival. The program, ``Hidden Treasure: Dance and Music Through the Islamic World,'' also features eight local dance troupes whose art is rooted in Islamic culture, including the Mevlevi Order of America (Turkish), Diamano Coura (West African) and Sri Susilowati (Indonesian).
Din is a virtuoso player of the oud, the six-stringed Arabic precursor of the lute. He also sings, chantlike, in Arabic and Nubian, and plays the tar, the ancient drum depicted in hieroglyphics in the temples of the pharaohs.
He has performed his original compositions -- Eastern sounds shaped in the forms of Western music -- with artists as varied as the Kronos Quartet and the Grateful Dead, and has scored and performed several film sound tracks (including Francis Coppola's ``Black Stallion'') and the music for director Peter Sellars' stage production of Aeschylus' ``The Persians'' at last year's Salzburg Festival.
At the moment, he's busy making adjustments. ``I've had difficulty tuning my oud,'' says El Din, sitting in the bright Oakland apartment he moved into a month ago. ``The environment (here) has a different hum; the noise pollution is different. In Japan, the noise pollution is organized -- there are different times for various motor vehicles. Here it's a free-for- all any time of the day,'' he says, laughing.
El Din, 65, has been practicing a tune he'll play tonight. Its title expresses his longtime sense of himself as a roving troubadour and citizen of the world: ``I Have No Address.''
``What is my nationality?'' asks El Din, a serenely joyous man whose speech is sprinkled with proverbs and lyrical phrases that sound like proverbs.
``Nubian-Egypto-Sudanese-Italo-American-Japanese. I've lived in all those places. I was a Nubian musician playing for my people; now I'm a Nubian musician playing those same themes for the whole world.''
Much of his music is based on traditional Nubian songs and stories, but arranged in a new way for the oud, an instrument unknown in Nubia until he introduced it. In fact, the concept of performance itself was also unknown: For thousands of years, Nubian music meant communal singing and percussion, always serving a social function. Audiences didn't exist.
``Our music is the voice, the drum and hand clapping,'' says El Din, who began playing the oud while studying engineering at the University of Cairo in the late '50s.
``It's a group effort, singing for every occasion: births, deaths, weddings, planting, harvesting, circumcision, calling to someone long-distance down the river. It was unheard of to perform music. My people could not accept what I was doing.''
But El Din was on a mission: Learning of the plan to build the Aswan High Dam, which would flood most of the land the Nubians had farmed for millennia, he set out to warn his people and preserve their culture before the land itself vanished. To do so, he created a style of music that was at once old and new.
``I tried to tell people that our whole 9,000-year history will disappear,'' El Din says, ``but they refused to listen. Then one old Nubian guy, a funny-looking man with a spiritual tic, told me, `Sing it.' ''
El Din quit his engineering job with the Egyptian national railroad in Cairo and ``took the oud to Nubia.'' He traveled by donkey from village to village, collecting songs. His oud playing, still Arabic in style, didn't catch on until it absorbed the distinctively Nubian rhythm and sound.
``One day I felt the oud had the Nubian accent,'' El Din says. ``I played for people in my village and they were mesmerized. I knew I had something.''
He studied Western music at the Academy of St. Cecilia in Rome on an Italian government grant, which opened his ear to harmony and taught him ``how to frame a composition, to give it shape and structure.''
From Japanese classical musicians El Din learned ``precision and patience. What they can do with one note!''
His playing, rich in overtones, is more relaxed, subtle and intricate than that of the typical oud virtuoso. ``The Egyptians say I sound like a Yemeni,'' El Din says. ``The Yemenis say I sound like a Moroccan, the Moroccans say I sound like a Syrian. Everybody relates me to something else. It means my music is me.''
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| سودانيون : حمزة علاء الدين | Dr.Abbas Mustafa | 11-18-03, 08:51 AM |
| Re: سودانيون : حمزة علاء الدين | Dr.Abbas Mustafa | 11-18-03, 09:29 AM |
| Re: سودانيون : حمزة علاء الدين | Dr.Abbas Mustafa | 11-18-03, 09:45 AM |
| Re: سودانيون : حمزة علاء الدين | Dr.Abbas Mustafa | 11-18-03, 10:29 AM |
| Re: سودانيون : حمزة علاء الدين | البعيو | 11-18-03, 10:22 AM |
| Re: سودانيون : حمزة علاء الدين | ابو جهينة | 11-18-03, 10:29 AM |
| Re: سودانيون : حمزة علاء الدين | Dr.Abbas Mustafa | 11-18-03, 10:51 AM |
| Re: سودانيون : حمزة علاء الدين | ابو جهينة | 11-18-03, 11:14 AM |
| Re: سودانيون : حمزة علاء الدين | Dr.Abbas Mustafa | 11-18-03, 11:41 AM |
| Re: سودانيون : حمزة علاء الدين | Dr.Abbas Mustafa | 11-18-03, 11:17 AM |
| Re: سودانيون : حمزة علاء الدين | haleem | 11-18-03, 11:35 AM |
 Re: سودانيون : حمزة علاء الدين | ترهاقا | 11-18-03, 02:14 PM |
| Re: سودانيون : حمزة علاء الدين | الجندرية | 11-18-03, 01:47 PM |
| Re: سودانيون : حمزة علاء الدين | ابو جهينة | 11-18-03, 01:56 PM |
| Re: سودانيون : حمزة علاء الدين | kofi | 11-18-03, 02:14 PM |
| Re: سودانيون : حمزة علاء الدين | Optimist | 11-18-03, 02:36 PM |
| Re: سودانيون : حمزة علاء الدين | aba | 11-18-03, 02:58 PM |
| Re: سودانيون : حمزة علاء الدين | Elmosley | 11-18-03, 03:30 PM |
| Re: سودانيون : حمزة علاء الدين | bushra suleiman | 11-18-03, 03:38 PM |
| Re: سودانيون : حمزة علاء الدين | aba | 11-18-03, 03:47 PM |
| Re: سودانيون : حمزة علاء الدين | aba | 11-18-03, 04:42 PM |
| Re: سودانيون : حمزة علاء الدين | Agab Alfaya | 11-18-03, 07:22 PM |
| Re: سودانيون : حمزة علاء الدين | Optimist | 11-18-03, 08:21 PM |
| Re: سودانيون : حمزة علاء الدين | Optimist | 11-18-03, 08:23 PM |
| Re: سودانيون : حمزة علاء الدين | Agab Alfaya | 11-19-03, 07:37 AM |
| Re: سودانيون : حمزة علاء الدين | Dr.Abbas Mustafa | 11-19-03, 08:04 AM |
| Re: سودانيون : حمزة علاء الدين | sari_alail | 11-19-03, 02:38 PM |
| Re: سودانيون : حمزة علاء الدين | Dr.Abbas Mustafa | 11-20-03, 06:57 PM |
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