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Tatar people have strong sense of musical rhythm. Their music is full of grassland sentiment, and is accompanied by accordion, mandolin, and violin, etc. Most Tatar music is monophonic and pentatonic.
Instruments: Kuray (long copper flute), Kubiz (Jaw harp), Violin.
Salih Saydashev (1900-1954) In the history of Tatar professional music, great is the role of Salih Saydashev, a talented composer, whose creative maturity fell on the 20s and whose further creative work inaugurated a new era in Tatar music evolution.
Farid Yarullin The poem "Shurale" inspired composer Farid Yarullin to write the music for the ballet "Shurale" (libretto by A. Faizi), which was staged for the first time in 1945. It has become one of the most popular Tatar ballets of all time.
Sofya Gubaidoullina (b. 1931) Sofya Gubaidoullina is the composer whose name is well known all over the world. Her music is called the music free from shackles... "...Basically, as a daughter of two worlds, I live with my soul in the music of the East and the West at the same time. And yet musicologists seem to hear the dominance of Tatar melodies in my works ".
Basyrova Zifa began to sing in 1936, and by 1940 she was generally recognized as a performer of national songs. Together with a bayan-player Orkyya Ibragimova they organized a unique ensemble. They were the first performers of many tatar national songs on a stage.
Shalyapin Fedor Shalyapin was a brilliant singer and a drama actor at the same time. His voice was unique on flexibility, timbre, gorgeousness and beauty of sounding and let him express all shades of emotions.
Yakhin Rustem Yakhin always aspired to reproduce an individual manner of those composes he addressed to - S.Khakim, A.Erikeyev, N.Dauli. A melodic of Yakhin is closely connected to national folklore.
Zulya Kamalova Multi award-winning Zulya
Kamalova is the leading proponent of Tatar music in Australia as
well as one of the most versatile and accomplished vocalists on
the world music scene today. A native of Volga-Kama region of Central Russia,
ZULYA began performing Russian and Tatar songs at the age of 9. Later she
studied music and languages at university level. Inspired
by the diversity of cultures, she made a dramatic decision to settle in Australia
in 1991 and began to not only share her traditional music with Australians,
but to explore the musical and linguistic riches of the multitude of cultures
living in Australia. As a result, ZULYA has developed a totally original approach
as anaffirmation of her unique identity - an affirmation that takes her Tatar
and Russian background to totally new places and in completely new ways. Zulya
has independently produced four albums to date, including the ARIA-nominated
elusive (2002) and, together with her band The Children of the Underground,
2004's magical The Waltz of Emptiness (and Other Songs on Russian Themes).
Although she is well-known in Australia, Zulya's performances of her gorgeous
blend of traditional and original music have recently been enchanting audiences
from Serbia to Siberia, Luxembourg to Moscow, Tatarstan to Helsinki and almost
everywhere in between.
Artist of the Year 2001 (Australian World Music Awards)
World Music Artist of the Year 2002 (Australian LIVE Music Awards)
Album of the year 2000 for Aloukie (Australian World Music Awards)
World Music Album of the Year 2003 nomination for elusive
(Australian Record Industry Awards, ARIA)
Best Album 2005 for The Waltz of Emptiness (National Film and Sound Archive
Award)
Ibragimov Renat Even studying at the 9th form Renat was invited to sing in the amateur pops orchestra of Kazan, and during 2 years he was a soloist there.
Masguda Shamsutdinova — a tatar composer now living in Seattle, WA—has opened an online radio station that broadcasts Tatar music. You can visit it at www.tatarica.com.
Roza Mamleeva - one of the modern tatar singer Roza Mamleeva of Ufa, Bashkortostan. She took part in New York International Music Festival on Monday, November 15, 2005. Roza featured songs in both Tatar and English.
Underground Kazan http://underground.kazan.ru/
Russian Folk Music about Tatars http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/178/youl.html
Zulya Kamalova http://www.zulya.com/zulya_samples.htm
Radio Tataria online http://tatarica.com/radio/
Ilhan Akidil's MP3 page of Old Tatar Songs http://akidil.net/tatar/tatarsongs.htm contains many tatar mp3-songs
Sait Tatar Mail Group's page http://www.geocities.com/Athens/9724/submitted.html conteins
midi samples of Tatar songs and wav samples of Tatar folk songs
Tatarstan's culture minister: "Long live Golden Minbar!" "We believe, a first and very important step has been made in performing the task set out by the President of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev to make Golden Minbar "the Eastern Cannes". There has been a great many meetings during the festival, many discussions regarding how to promote our co-operation. There is nothing in the world more valuable today when the territory of war and conflicts is expanding than building a ground of peace, a place where people meet and show each other their art. This is a very serious instrument for actually enlarging the territory of consent in this world. If our festival…contributes to it, we can consider the Golden Minbar to have coped with the task," said the Culture Minister of Tatarstan Zilya Valeeva.
The First International Festival Of Muslim Cinema “Golden Minbar” took place in the capital of Tatarstan - Kazan - from the 5th to the 11th of September 2005 and was devoted to the 1000th anniversary of Kazan .
2nd international Muslim film festival to be held in Kazan
About 20 countries took part in the festival - Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria,
Turkey, Iran, Kazakhstan, Libya, Malaysia, Qatar, Uzbekistan, Kirghizia and
Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Bashkortostan (not only Muslim countries, but also
Great Britain, Canada, Lithuania and USA) and others. As a result, more than
150 films were introduced to the contest. Until now there were no permanent
cinematographic forums to such subjects.
The name Golden Minbar is symbolic of what organizers hope their festival will
be: a platform from which the good and true word about Muslims, their culture
and achievements will be conveyed "They in Tatarstan are good at making
festivals," claimed at a press conference Zaudi Mamirgov, the General
Director of the Muslim film festival Golden Minbar to be held in Kazan on 10-17
September.
The 2nd festival's motto is "religious tolerance and political correctness" which
is quite relevant these days. The festival's venue has several times been changed
from Kazan to Moscow and vice versa.
The festival was designed as "travelling" and was to be held in different
cities but due to several reasons the decision was finally made to make Kazan
the venue. The Golden Minbar is to be the Kazan's annual film festival as "Kazan
is the most northern capital of Islam where people of various religions peacefully
coexist," according to Zaudi Mamirgov.
A total of over 100 pictures from 25 countries have been sent in. The committee, chaired by the playwright, professor with the VGIK cinema institute Odelsha Agishev, has selected 57 films from 17 countries including India, Iran, Tunisia, the UK, France, Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan.
Like the first Muslim film festival, the second will not feature horror and
action films as well as pictures capable of insulting feelings of believers.
The main criteria for selection were proficiency and propaganda of human spiritual
and moral values. Filmmakers from the UK, Germany, Iran and Russia have consented
to participate as jury members.
The first Muslim film festival Golden Minbar was held in Kazan in September
2005. The Grand Prix was awarded to the "The Sorcerer" drama by Oktai
Mir-Kasym (Azerbaijan). The Russian director Vladimir Khotinenko received one
of the festival's special prizes for his "The Muslim". Russia's renowned
filmmakers and actors Vadim Abdrasheetov, Sergey Shakurov, Yelena Tsyplakova,
Anatoly Kuznetsov, Natalia Varley, Vladimir Ilyin and others attended the event
last year.
(www.mfmk.ru)
International cartoon competition - Tatarstan
october 15, 2006
The organizers of the International cartoon contest are Mass media Agency "Tatmedia" of
Tatarstan Republic, the magazine of satire and humour "CHAYAN" (Scorpion)
and the creative Association of Cartoonists "Sabantuy". The contest
is opened for everyone regardless of nationality, age, sex, or profession.
17 minutes’ long animated cartoon film “Mother’s holiday” is based on Musa Jalil’s poems“Mother’s holiday”, “Nightingale and spring”, and “Red camomile”. Students of Kazan State Technical University named after A. Tupolev made computer graphics drawings; the texts are read by Tatar State Academy Theatre artists.
It is known that “Ramay” studio headed by Tatarstan People’s Artist R. Tokhfatullin produced film “Zolaykha”, which is based on Tatar classic Gayaz Iskhakiy’s drama. Actors of Tatar and Russian Kazan theatres took part in 1 hour 35 minutes’ long film. Ilsoya Tokhfatullina, Shaukat Biktimerov, Gafur Kayumov, Azat Zaripov, Vera Minkina starred in this film. The director of the film is Ramil Tokhfatullin.
(www.cartoonblues.com/Contest_october2006_Kazan.html)