2024-01-26 21:28:05
Concerts that are very professional in form and content, and high-end in spectacle, are held in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It can be said that the Arab world has not known the extent of its interest in concerts since the forties of the last century, more beautiful than them even today, neither in musical preparation, nor in lyricism, nor in photography. Not in the décor, nor in the scenography, nor in anything. It is as if these concerts were in the imagination of a poet like Al-Mutanabbi, for example, and when he opened them to Saif al-Dawla, they were on their way to implementation. Meaning that they are concerts coming from an intangible, intangible world and then made available to be accessible. Artistic critics, the watching public, and television stations from the ocean to the Gulf are in a state of speculation about this amazing technical and artistic magic that has no precedents in what we have heard and seen in our vast country, and every concert is followed by another followed by a third or fourth, and from one beautiful to the most beautiful to the most beautiful. Neither the guest singers get tired while performing what was previously just images that passed through their imaginations, nor do they hope for circumstances to come that would make it impossible, nor do the technicians, the main thing, nor the musicians show a hint of reproach, lack of gratitude, or annoyance about anything. In deed and word, it is forbidden to make a mistake. You must watch the brilliant musical band, which is as if it were a type of angels, placed in their places and asked to play old and new songs. In the old, there are scents of a beautiful and unforgettable time, and in the new, there are natures of creativity. And if you are a creative, detailed, and meticulous listener, you must… You raise your hands with long sighs from the soul. Arab stars, Lebanese, Egyptians and Gulf Arabs, fill the place with their charming presence and their voices rich with sorrow and love. They are concerts to which not a single letter is added for a decrease, and if it is added, it is added for the desire for greater completion. Even the greatest completion, which a party may not achieve for some reason, is the companion of most of the concerts that reach us through the screen, which we must acknowledge that its director and photographers are not only global in identity or professionalism, but rather global in the meaning of capturing minute details, as if the photographer is a stand-alone radar searching for… He spends all his time photographing the subjects he loves, as if the camera is a tempting queen for which those around it would sacrifice themselves.
However, two strong obstacles accompany the concerts and all this huge, unprecedented production: firstly, their successive, fast-paced number in which the concerts “kill” each other, by clinging to each other and by their urgent succession that does not have mercy on them themselves. Each of these concerts, which took weeks and perhaps months to prepare, needs at least days after implementation to be understood by the public and analyzed by the media. It is usual that if you have one concert for a major star, you spend days counting what was said from specialists’ opinions about the negatives and positives of the concert, so what about you when you are in front of ten stars, each standing on its own, who have come together in songs for one or more of them? Ten wonderful and brilliant voices on one stage, so what is the way to understand what each one of them did, what was the result of their meeting, and what is this amazing, strange fruit that we are seeing and feeling for the first time?
The second obstacle is temporary and Arab-oriented, which is that these concerts, despite the greatness of the arts of music and singing and the gathering of major stars from the younger generation or the generation whose songs are directed at the youth, are being held at the same time that the Palestinian city of Gaza is being exposed to the most horrific injustice in contemporary history of aggression. An Israeli who understands nothing but killing and destruction. Although this may be placed in the category of a political interpretation that is not the time now, another interpretation actually steals the camera and the spotlight to depict what is happening in the category of confronting death with life and the arts. But the pressure of the Palestinian situation, even if the concerts are not considered in the intended political “translation” arena, they do not find followers or those who desire it as an art that is not always available, with sufficient and appropriate time to devote to it closely. Gaza’s great concern prevents many of the audience, even if they do not adhere to any political interpretation, from watching Saudi Arabia’s concerts calmly and carefully, humanly and emotionally, so it loses much of its meaning.
Singing concerts in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia preceded all those before them in the Arab world, with theaters that were built as if suspended between the earth and the sky, and with singing stars who gained high legitimacy and artistic dignity that doubled their audiences. And this alone, if they would plan for it for years and spend money for it, they would not be able to do it alone. Achieved with such scale and mastery. There is something that should be recognized by the Entertainment Authority in the Kingdom, which is that Arabic singing, which appears every time after a while. Whoever says that it is dead, that is, the death of singing through the death of voices that cross generations, this singing returns from Saudi Arabia to Arab homes, strengthened with high confidence. It turns out that there is a very large percentage of Arabic songs, whether from Egypt, Lebanon, or the Gulf, that have not passed in the last quarter century as a beggar passes at a mean table. Rather, by performing them in these showy forms at Saudi concerts, they regained their breath, presented what they had again, and attracted eyes. And hearts, and there seemed to be a lack of focus on them within a general aesthetic framework!
There is an Arab artistic invasion from Saudi Arabia that is busy with patience, professionalism, and astronomical financial numbers that have subjected the largest theatrical engineering designs, the largest musical bands, and the largest stars to the will of artistic beauty that has the desired taste of immortality!
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