DUSHANBE, May 6, Asia-Plus — An event to commemorate the 94th anniversary birthday of known Tajik composer Ziyodullo Shahidi was held at the Ziyodull Shahidi Museum in Dushanbe on May 4.
Known Tajik artistes and researchers as well as representatives of parliament and a number of diplomatic missions active in Dushanbe attended the meeting that opened with performance of extracts from a number of maestro’s operas such as “Komde va Madan” and “Muhabbat”.
Speaking at the meeting, MP Muhiddin Kabiri noted that he is against politicization of culture but for cultured policy.
Russian Ambassador to Tajikistan Ramazan Abdulatipov seconded Mr. Kabiri, noting that when policy moves away from culture, it moves way from morality and becomes uncivilized, “which is fraught with serious consequences.”
The meeting participants expressed hope that events to commemorate the 95th birthday of Ziyodullo Shahidi will be held next year at the national level.
Representatives of diplomatic missions noted that they will assist holding of the jubilee events at international level.
Ziyodullo Shahidi was born in Samarqand, present Uzbekistan, at the beginning of the 20th century. As an amateur musician, virtuoso in several traditional instruments, such as nay (flute), tanbur and doutor (a string instrument), he developed his musical gift in tours of Central Asia, and participated in establishment of modern-type theatres in Tashkent and Samarqand. Due to political events he moved to Dushanbe, where he found his own sphere of activity. In 1946, in his mature age, Ziyodullo Shahidi entered the Moscow Conservatory, where he plunged into the atmosphere of the complicated interconnections between the Russian, Caucasian and Central Asian traditions. Ziyodullo Shahidi”s dream to transform maqams into symphony was realized in the early 1950s. His composition was based on the interpretation of the original classical cycle Shashmaqom within the modern European harmony. His original contribution to that combination was based on the idea of the interconnectedness of common and universal thoughts of both traditions.
