Thu, Feb 14
07:30PM
Thu, Feb 14
07:30PM
12th new york sephardic jewish film festival
Closing Night: Nuba of Gold and Light
Closing Night Screening and Reception
Nuba of Gold and Light
Director Izza Genini
Morocco, Spain and France, 2007, 80 mins
The word "nuba" (each one in turn) came to describe the process of reciting poems accompanied by music with a progressively accelerating tempo. In the 9th Century in Cordoba, Zyriab, also called the Blackbird, came from Baghdad to the Caliph's Court, where he set down the foundations of Arab-Andalusian music, within which the the "nuba," a musical suite, plays the key role. Tradition says that some of these suites were gradually lost after Cordoba's fall in 1236 and Seville's in 1249. From that time, Jewish and Muslim populations brought back to North Africa the al-Andalus scholar's musical art.
Genini's beautiful documentary presents North African music and features Franciose Atlan and the Orchestra of Mohammed Briouel from Fez; Ihsan Rmiki and the El Awj Ensemble; the Amine El Akrami Orchestra of Tetouan; the orchestra of M. Zitouni and the musicians of the Hanafta café in Tangiers; the Arab Andalou Orchestra and the Hadarate of Chefchaouen; Albert Bouadanah and Gérard Edery. Post-screening discussion with the filmmaker.
Nuba of Gold and Light
Director Izza Genini
Morocco, Spain and France, 2007, 80 mins
The word "nuba" (each one in turn) came to describe the process of reciting poems accompanied by music with a progressively accelerating tempo. In the 9th Century in Cordoba, Zyriab, also called the Blackbird, came from Baghdad to the Caliph's Court, where he set down the foundations of Arab-Andalusian music, within which the the "nuba," a musical suite, plays the key role. Tradition says that some of these suites were gradually lost after Cordoba's fall in 1236 and Seville's in 1249. From that time, Jewish and Muslim populations brought back to North Africa the al-Andalus scholar's musical art.
Genini's beautiful documentary presents North African music and features Franciose Atlan and the Orchestra of Mohammed Briouel from Fez; Ihsan Rmiki and the El Awj Ensemble; the Amine El Akrami Orchestra of Tetouan; the orchestra of M. Zitouni and the musicians of the Hanafta café in Tangiers; the Arab Andalou Orchestra and the Hadarate of Chefchaouen; Albert Bouadanah and Gérard Edery. Post-screening discussion with the filmmaker.
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12th new york sephardic jewish film festival
