Building bridges of communication – Oman Observer

The Aga Khan Awards Ceremony kicked off on Saturday night, below the auspices of HH Sayyid Kamil bin Fahd al Mentioned, within the presence of excessive stage attendees and native and worldwide media.

The ceremony, which was held on the Home of Musical Arts, the Royal Opera Home, Muscat, was accompanied by the Royal Oman Symphony Orchestra and the Music of the Aga Khan, within the presence of elite Omani architects and musicians, in addition to roughly 250 worldwide friends from around the globe, members of the Awards Steering Committee, jury, finalists and winners of the Structure and Music Awards.

The patron of the occasion honoured the winners of the ‘Stroll of Creativity’ award throughout the Aga Khan Music Awards, specifically Zakir Hussain, winner of the ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’, and Omani music researcher Muslim bin Ahmed al Kathiri, who gained a ‘particular award’ for his contribution to safeguarding Omani musical heritage.

The three-day programme included, on its first day, stay performances of varied items of music by Aga Khan Orchestra.

Talking on the event, Jamal al Moosawi, Director Common of the Nationwide Museum, mentioned that the Sultanate of Oman makes considerable efforts to make tradition a typical denominator amongst peoples, by making identified to the world its richness of tradition and information by way of the cultural actions it undertakes or participates in and people held in cooperation with civil society establishments of varied cultural and social backgrounds.

“The Sultanate of Oman’s internet hosting of the second version of the Aga Khan Music Awards comes throughout the framework of constructing bridges of communication and hyperlinks between varied peoples of the world and enhancing joint cooperation by activating channels of cultural communication in any respect official and societal ranges.

“After saying this, the musical heritage of the Sultanate of Oman goes again to the prehistoric interval by way of the oldest musical instrument found on the archaeological web site of Ras al Hadd, which may be seen within the Nationwide Museum within the Corridor of Intangible Heritage. This corridor signifies the significance that Oman attaches to musical expertise.” he added .

Al Moosawi talked about that the fashionable Renaissance of Oman started in 1970, referring to late Sultan Qaboos’s contributions to the event of music. He mentioned “the Omani authorities took care of the establishments involved with music, from the very starting, topped finally by the institution of the Royal Opera Home Muscat in 2011”.

He additionally mentioned that “the First Royal Ensemble for Folks Arts and Music was established in 1976. The institution of the Royal Oman Symphony Orchestra in 1985 below the direct supervision of late Sultan Qaboos, and to not neglect the Oman Centre for Conventional Music in addition to the Omani Oud Hobbyists Affiliation”.

The DG of the Nationwide Museum mentioned that “Music has a common language spoken by all individuals and understood by everybody with none bother or hardship. It unites peoples and blends with it the foundations of civilised dialogue, by way of which we search to spotlight the function of the Sultanate of Oman, its Omani vocabulary, and its range and wealthy cultural and information patterns”.

On the event, Luis Monreal, GM of Agha Khan for Belief for Tradition, mentioned : “Oman has a really wealthy archaeological heritage that’s deep-rooted in historical past. That is proven by way of the federal government’s efforts to protect this legacy and to make it out there and accessible for each residents and guests. For instance, the Nationwide Museum displays the id of the nation and it exhibits its historical past over time”.

Speaking concerning the belief he’s presiding, Monreal mentioned: “The belief is the cultural company and is part of the Agha Khan Growth Community, which is the most important growth entity privately-owned on the planet. It represents the work of 90,000 individuals in lots of nations. We consider that the tradition is a basic pillar not solely to individuals who want it to grasp their origin, however as a result of it’s an asset for growth”.

“Agha Khan establishments work not solely to revive historical buildings however they undertake totally different actions like conservation, preservation and restoration in historic cities and produce micro-finance programmes, well being, and schooling”.

The Sultanate of Oman’s internet hosting of the Music Awards Ceremony (after the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, which hosted the occasion in March of 2019) confirms the significance of the Sultanate of Oman as an essential vacation spot on the map of world tradition, literature and artwork. This internet hosting additionally displays the cultural motion within the Sultanate of Oman consistent with world transformations in response to its financial, social, political and cultural material, consistent with the goals of nationwide, regional and worldwide methods, that are hoped to contribute to reaching the bases of the cultural technique primarily based on creativity, cultural growth, cultural inventive industries, tradition and society, cultural id, cultural growth, cultural communication, and cultural laws and laws.

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