the MAQAM project

[@pauljmeyer1]

Excellent musicianship, may all Semitic People be bonded by their glorious culture and not cast stones at one another.

[@freepagan]

Beautiful music like this should be used to help bring Arabs and Jews together.

[@dooossary]

Sh**. Arabs and Jews don't have a problem in general. It is those who live in فلسطين, they should go back to where they are originally from and not take other people's land by killing them.

[@ANIME2020X]

In Iraq (back in the days), the best musicians and those who played in the "Al Chalghi Al Baghdadi" and we exalt them so much! I loved the music, great performance and I was surprised that you played a muwasshah (موشح ملأ الكاسات). It happens to be one of my most favorite muwasshahat, especially when sung by the great Syrian Sabah Fakhri.

[@RezBabe]

This music moved me so much, I only discovered you have a live concert today and sadly I can not make it! This is true Alchemy of sound of the ancient world and how much we need it now, to connect with the Supreme Being, the one and only, the source of LOVE...God bless you all...

[@EliezerPennywhistler]

+RezBabe Make sure you check out the Japanese oud player and Malachy O'Neil playing traditional maqam www.oxfordmaqam.com/audiovideo.html

[@EliezerPennywhistler]

> So - Is maqam proprietary or can anybody play it? Are Arabic instruments proprietary or can anybody play them? If contemporary Jews led by Rabbi Goodman are playing Jewish music on maqam forms and singing Hebrew Scripture with them, then it is contemporary Jewish music ... not "ancient world music".

[@EliezerPennywhistler]

Um, does the name "Eliezer Pennywhistler" tell you something?

[@jessicahammerman4312]

Zach, I love this. Ruby and I watched this and we love your weekly installments of Maqam. THank you for allowing us to still dwell with you in New York, even though we are so far away.

[@zenthelord]

Tamer pinarbasi, you are a unique genius! What an improvisation!

[@azadmamm1025]

I lave music

[@Kppot]

I am on my way to Sietch Tabr

[@sairamanandbhanurachakonda4986]

It reminds me of raga Sarasangi in Carnatic Classical Music

[@adin2259]

What emotion does this invoke from native listeners? Which movements are attributed to which feelings? Is it similar to western music in that way? As a musician of multiple cultures (guessing), have you found any similarities between the Maqam and the 12 note system (what a boring name)?

[@mohamamdmohammad9803]

Not an expert. But the rast is like the major in arabic and iranian music.

[@princetec1]

waaw nice music

[@היצירותשלנו]

yasallm the bast of the bsast

[@black-qz8hj]

this ottoman music is very good

[@user-ez5hd4yt8z]

It's Arabic *Not* ottoman music

[@dilsadelihayrat7803]

Huzur

[@calmanay]

מקסים ומרגש ומקצועי לגמרי שאפו ענק לכם

[@hadidsaid6661]

Barak llah oufik bonne continuation

[@syed2194]

I have never seen white people play oud like this and be so knowledgeable in maqamat wow. This is amazing, keep it up!

[@freepagan]

Half of Arabs are white. The only real arabs are from the Persian Gulf.

[@jedinxf7]

lol it took so little time for people to change their minds and decide jews are white people

[@mohamamdmohammad9803]

مر القطار سريعا. مارسيل خليفة

[@ceciliatornesello]

In which country was this concert played?

[@ZachFredman]

New York City

[@ceciliatornesello]

@@ZachFredman thank you

[@scottsterling7659]

Which synagogue is this

[@urilevy1]

Same question

[@bilalbataineh8367]

Arab maqams

[@scottsterling7659]

@@bilalbataineh8367 I know what maqam is this, my question was about the synagogue

[@ZachFredman]

Bnai jeshurun

[@js_dirga]

Allahh

[@liapuspita4510]

Nasingkatt😒.... Haruskah ada pidatonya?

[@DabashaN]

😗

[@LaFalfulaGroove]

נפלא :)

[@salem2181]

😅😅😅🤣🤣🤣

[@נתנאליחזקאל]

יפה מאוד!

[@tahahussein3254]

ملأ الكاسات وسقاني :)

[@imanmahmood8334]

Iraqi traditional music

[@mahmoodtajar9937]

''rast''//raast...is one of the 7 or 8 so called ''arabic'' maqaamat....are all originally persian....just like ''yeka''/dohka/sikah//jaharkah//banjkah//haftkah....ajam//mahuri/mahur//shuri/shur//dashti/dasht//kurd//zanjaran//humayun//bayati//saba//zamzam//hijaz ''kaar''//hijaz ''divan''//...the most popular of them ''nahawand''... an ancient city in iran...///khanabat//aushar//shahnaz//suznaak//dil suz//nikriz//nairuz////nava///auj///khush rank...!

[@rexmarson7914]

So you hope to claim Arabic art as "originally Persian"??!

[@MegaWild71]

@@rexmarson7914 tell you more interesting fact? who put the first book of arabic grammar was persian too :)

[@scottsterling7659]

@@MegaWild71 oh wow do you know his name. I'm genuinely interested

[@MegaWild71]

@@scottsterling7659 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibawayh

[@jimb6554]

I'm willing to admit that the Persians may have cultivated these maqamat before the Arabs but for some reason nowadays Persian music is unbearable to listen to whereas classical arabic music is sweet as sugar. Even in this video you can tell the difference in style between the oud and violin players who are definitely Ashkenaz (European) but know how to play in Arabic style and the kanun player who was clearly playing in Persian style with all of it's never ending trills that lead to nowhere. I couldn't wait for him to stop so that the others could get back to playing. It sounded like he was trying too hard think of something and I was waiting for him to come up with something nice but then he just kept banging away at his kanun with nothing special whereas the oudist & violinist effortlessly produced some good taqasimaat. PS I thought that that "rabbi" was getting up to sing some major mawwal. Instead he burst the bubble by delivering some corny meditations about beginning and end and Rast and unending circles etc kinda like that kanun playing. I can't believe the people over there stand for that drivel. There is a mix of talented people and clearly untalented people on that stage. They need to get rid of the untalented ones. PPS What is the point of that accordion if the musician won't play it? Hello. Those things sound awesome in rast. Why won't they give him some airtime?

[@mfmajdierauhullah-bn9os]

حير الأفكار