KUWAIT, June 11 (KUNA) -- Music fans and addicts entertained their audio senses with live tunes in the first stage of the Tenth Int'l Music Festival that kicked off here on Saturday.
The French musician, Raphael Vuillard, along with his Syrian counterpart, Khaled Al-Jarmani, entertained, late Sunday, the audience at Abdel Aziz Hussein Theatre in Dasma with a unique blend of western and oriental sax and oud tunes.
The audio show was largely peppered with jazz, content of which depicting some form of an eastern-western dialogue.
The French-Syrian pair started with excerpts of a musical piece, "fromroots," followed by "friendship" then lured the attendees to a spiritual dramatic atmosphere. They excelled with "hallaj" depicting sung sufi poetry.
The event had gotten underway with a symposium paying tribute to Kuwaiti singer, Yahya Ahmad.
Organized by the Kuwaiti National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters (NCCAL), the five-day event attracted participants from several local, Arab and foreign countries.
The symposium is part of NCCAL's series of activities in honor of Kuwait's leading artists and creative people in all fields, said Mohammad Al-Asoussi, the director of the festival.
Several folklore bands will offer concerts and performances during the festival including the French "Under Aches" band which give a concert of Arabic and Western music, Al-Asoussi noted.
Italian soprano Jolanta Omilian accompanied by Polish pianist Jerry Romaniuk will give a concert along with other performances by the Jordanian Ma'an and Awlad Amer folklore bands, the Syrian Enana band.
Music contributes to rapprochement among world people with different cultures, Al-Asoussi added. The festival will last till June 13.
