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Mar. 1st, 2005 03:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
merchimerchToday I attended the traditional music portion of the Tashkent city-wide music competition. The Republic-wide competition will be held for the winners next week in Horezm. I'm going to try and make arrangements for Rich and I to go. It may take some finnagling and a fair amount of expense, but it will probably be worth it. I need to call Timur aka who is on the jury to figure out if I can handle the details and free myself up for three days next week.
The competition was interesting - I'm amazed at how strong the canon is - even for the freely chosen pieces, there were a lot of duplicates (even though there were only 7 dutarists). I'm guessing that the curriculum is fairly standardized. I was also intersting in hand positions for the players. There was an amazing combintion of malika-opa style open hand strumming technique and the more common closed hand technique, which I think comes from the reconstructed traditions. Of course I found out later that 2 of the 3 students I noticed with open handed technique were studying with Malika opa's students.
It brought back a lot of memories of competitions I'd been in as a kid. I'm so glad I'm not doing that anymore, the stress is completely daunting.
my favorite of all the instrumentalists was the tiny, pudgy dutar player who was wearing a ruffly dress of national fabric and a rhinestone tiara (high fashion for young kids here). She was so little she had to rock back and forth just to hit the lower notes on the dutar. It was such an endearing sight.
The competition was interesting - I'm amazed at how strong the canon is - even for the freely chosen pieces, there were a lot of duplicates (even though there were only 7 dutarists). I'm guessing that the curriculum is fairly standardized. I was also intersting in hand positions for the players. There was an amazing combintion of malika-opa style open hand strumming technique and the more common closed hand technique, which I think comes from the reconstructed traditions. Of course I found out later that 2 of the 3 students I noticed with open handed technique were studying with Malika opa's students.
It brought back a lot of memories of competitions I'd been in as a kid. I'm so glad I'm not doing that anymore, the stress is completely daunting.
my favorite of all the instrumentalists was the tiny, pudgy dutar player who was wearing a ruffly dress of national fabric and a rhinestone tiara (high fashion for young kids here). She was so little she had to rock back and forth just to hit the lower notes on the dutar. It was such an endearing sight.
