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Ali Akbar Moradi presents Kurdish sacred
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22.3.2008
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March 22, 2008
Tanbur player Ali Akbar Moradi says the passages
that flow off his instrument in performance are in
many ways a reflection of the assembled audience.
"All of the people in the hall can help me play
something new," Moradi said. "(When) all of them
have a good energy, good waves, something new can
happen.
"When the music makes me drunk, I am better."
Moradi performed on Friday at the Telfair Academy of
Arts and Sciences as part of the Savannah Music
Festival.
Moradi's enthusiasm for music is clear. Even over
the telephone, with his son Kourosh translating the
questions and Moradi responding in a language not
his own,www.ekurd.net
you can hear the passion
that has driven Moradi to become one of the world's
top exponents of sacred Kurdish music. |
Tanbur master, Ali Akbar Moradi presents Kurdish
sacred music |
Moradi, born in 1957 in the Kermanshah province of
Western Iran, started playing the tanbur, a
two-stringed lute-like instrument used in ancient
Persian music, when he was 7 years old. By the time
he reached 14, Moradi gave his first recital in
Kermanshah.
He studied the 72 "Maqam," of the Yarsan religion -
the faith's liturgical musical motifs - and after
receiving permission from a religious authority,
Sayyed Nasreddine Haydari Guran, he recorded the
Maqam.
Savannah Morning News: Tell us about the tanbur.
Ali Akbar Moradi: The tanbur is a very, very old
instrument. It is about 5,000 years old. And for
about now 1,000 years,www.ekurd.net
it is a holy instrument
for the Kurdish Yarsan people. Every Yarsan person
admires the instrument. You kiss the instrument
before and after playing.
SMN: How did you start playing the tanbur?
Moradi: I was about 6 years old when my father
bought an instrument for himself. But he couldn't
play, and my grandfather asked me to play. He
started to ask the tanbur masters to come to my
house and give lessons.
At 10 years old, I played a concert hall in
Kurdistan. After that I continued. I learned about
the Maqam on the tanbur.
SMN: When you perform, how much of your material is
improvised?
Moradi: When I'm on the stage, I try to be free in
playing. I don't know how much is different. All the
people in the hall can help me play something new."
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