{"id":49603,"date":"2015-07-27T12:15:22","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T09:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/?p=49603"},"modified":"2015-07-27T12:15:22","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T09:15:22","slug":"new-season-of-opera-house-activities-starts-with-syrias-rainbow-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=49603","title":{"rendered":"New season of Opera House activities starts with Syria&#8217;s Rainbow Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damascus, SANA \u2013Many dancing performances and musical pieces were part of the Festival &#8220;Syria&#8217; Rainbow&#8221; which started its new season at the Damascus-based Opera House on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/170.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-49607\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/170-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"1\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAjyal (Generations) band performed dances and Oriental music (Takht) ensemble, led by Maestro Nazih As&#8217;aad, chanted folkloric songs during the first day.<\/p>\n<p>The five-day festival is to present dancing performances from the Circassian, Armenian, Kurdish and Syriac Assyrian heritage in a reference to the richness the Syrian heritage and the harmony of the Syrians.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/223.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-49608\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/223-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"2\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The concert, attended by Minister of Culture Issam Khalil, started with solo flute music and then followed with folkloric songs from different parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Artist Bassel Hamdan excelled in presenting an expressionist panoramic performance reflecting the abundance of the Syrian cultural heritage.<br \/>\nR. Milhem\/ Barry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damascus, SANA \u2013Many dancing performances and musical pieces were part of the Festival &#8220;Syria&#8217; Rainbow&#8221; which started its new season at the Damascus-based Opera House on Sunday. Ajyal (Generations) band performed dances and Oriental music (Takht) ensemble, led by Maestro Nazih As&#8217;aad, chanted folkloric songs during the first day. The five-day festival is to present &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":49605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-arts-culture","category-news-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}