Naseer Shamma's Music and Poetry
Naseer Shamma started his early formation of the relation between poetry and music. He had lots of work in the field ofmusically read poetry; including: -
• Music Reading with the participation of the artist AzizKhyoun in the Federation of Iraqi Writers. Where hepresented the "stranger on the Gulf" and "Rain Song" to the great poet Badr Shaker Al Sayab in 1986.
• Music piece entitled "Declaring my love silently" from a poem by the poet Ibrahim Zidan the same name for a TV cultural Baghdad in 1993.
• Participated in the Sixth International Festival of Babylonby composing a poem by El Gawahry entitled "Oh Tigris Good or orchards" and performed it himself within the festival in 1994.
• Music Reading for five poems from the of "Why did you leave the horse alone" by the great poet presented at a joint concert for them in Tunisia, Berlin (Germany), and Boston (USA) in 1995.
• Made with the artist Jawad Alchukrgi more than 13 joint performances of "Rain Song" and "Stranger to the Gulf"by the poet Badr Shaker Al Sayab at several Tunisian festivals, that received great demand in 1995.
• Music piece entitled "weird gull" dedicated to the great Iraqi poet, "Muzaffar Alnowab" in a ceremony attended by the poet who later improvised a poem, because of the Music piece, delivered in the same theater in 1996.
• Evening of "Shahrazad / Forum of female Arab poets" at the ending of Sousse international festival, session 38 on the open-air stage. The ceremony included Music reading to poems of 10 female poets who were: - Fadwa Toukan -Palestine, Fadila El Sbby and Fawzia Al Elwi - Tunis,Zulekha Abu Risha - Jordan, Wafa2 Imrany - Morocco,Lina El Tibi - Syria, Wedad El Gourani - Iraq, Inaya Gabir- Lebanon, Mona Abdel Azim - Egypt, Thoraya El Arid - Bahrain. In 1996.
• The musical piece "Qolto man Za" with the Tunisian singer Saneya Mubarak, which lasted for a year and a half on several stages in several countries, The piece is in 10 signed texts by poets Amal Dunqul, Lamiaah AbbasAmara, Ali El Lawati, Nouri Al-Jarrah, Bechara ElKhoury, Lina El Tibi, Jabbar Sahm, and a poem by NaseerShamma. In 1997.
• Music reading of the poem "Rain" taken from a poem by the poet Amal Dunqul in 1998.
• The opening night Musical reading by Haidar Mahmoudand Talal Haidar in the seventeenth Jerash Festival for Culture and Arts on the northern stage in Jordan in 1998.
• Musical piece "Anafeih Ala Malaa" from the poem text for the Iraqi poet Lamiaa Abbas Omarah in 1998.
• Collection of poems sung in the Seventh "Arab Music Festival" in the Egyptian Opera House entitled :"the night after the millennium", a poetic evening that presented poems by youthful voices: - poem "Law Anbani El Araf" (If the fortune teller told me) by the Iraqi poet Lamiaa Abbas Omarah and presented by Hayat El Idrisi - Morocco, and the poem "Al ghariban" (The strangers) by Amal Dunqul sung by the Tunisian singers Mohamed ElJebali abd Enas Samar. Also, the poem "Arab blood" b y Farouk Shousha sung by the Egyptian Ibrahim Hefnawi. And lastly the poem "El Leila Leiletna" by the Tunisian Mahjoub Al Ayari and sung by Abir Nasraoui. In 1998.
• Music reading for a number of poems of the great poet Adonis in 2000.
• Oud recital with a poetic reading by the poet Lina Al Tibiin Norway in 2000.
• Celebration of the launch of the magazine "Diwan" of Arabic and German poetry in Germany, as a project aiming to translate Arabic poetry to German. The opening ceremony was attended by poets: Adonis and Amal Jubouri and the German side: Hans Magnus Antznsergr, and Joachim Sartorius. In 2001.
• A poetic musical evening for selections of poems by Amal Dunqul. Composed by Naseer Shamma and performed by each of the Ali El Hajjar and Karima El Okali with "Eyon" band. In 2003.
• Musical reading and composing texts entitled "Laysa Nahran waheda" by the poet Amjad Nasser, and participated in it the artists Khaled El Nabawy and WaelSami. In 2005.
• Hosted the Ceremony of the second forum of the prose poem In Egypt in 2010.
• Hosted the opening of House of Poetry in Cairo in the presence of the Director of the House of Poetry, poet Abdel Muti Hijazi, and bunch of Egyptian and Arab poets. There he presented a new work about the poet Ahmed Shawki, another new one about Badr Shaker Al Sayab
• Also an old work of his about Garcia Lorca. And finally, a work of the poem by Mahmoud Darwish, entitled "Taleem Horreya" in 2010.
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