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The “Baalbek International Festivals” committee chose the mediator for the concerts of its five-year program, a lyrical and danceable musical combination under the title: “Roots in our hands from Spain and Lebanon”, which combined the ancient “Andalusian” art, from which we draw in his own and enjoyable style, playing the guitar and singing, the Spanish artist Nasho Arimani, in a spectacle emblazoned with the performances of the “flamenco” dancer Karen Lugo, and adorned with the turquoise of the Rahbana that the festival longs for, and its echo still soars in the atmosphere of “Jupiter” and “Bacchus” and what is between them, performed with perfection and merit by the singer Fabian Daher, who has proven her equal to the great artists, In the background, the sixty-year-old “Jesuit University” choir, led by Yasmina Sabah, left a distinctive imprint in the accuracy of its organization, and its voices that imitate every color in its language and layers, and even in the hymns of its hymns.
The attendees were presented by the Governor of Baalbek Hermel Bashir Khader, Head of the Festivals Committee Nayla de Freij, Mayor of Baalbek by designation Mustafa Al-Shell, and ambassadors: Spain Jesus Santos Aguado, Belgium Quinn Vervac, Denmark Christopher Vivek, Colombia Lina Vanessa Varela Fitzgerald, and Director of the “Cervantes” Institute in Beirut Yolanda Soler Onís.
The evening mixed in 11 consecutive paintings without a break, over a period of more than two hours, between Spanish art and our Lebanese heritage infused with the artistic nobility rooted in the country of the Nile.
It begins with the composition “Roots in Our Hands” and its master is unchallenged by Arimani gracefully playing the “guitar”, assisted by five main players on “violin”, “viola”, “contrabass” and “drums”.
Arimani performed the song “Waiting for You”, in which he immersed himself in his feelings and feelings, before moving with the choir to his masterpiece “Comola Marea”, and followed it with his charming lyrical painting “Solea Del Vieto”, in which he revealed the contents of his heart and his feelings, with the participation of “Flamenco” dancer Karen Lugo, who He followed her with his lens, Wael Hamza, to paint the picture with his artistic touches, which added elegance, beauty, and splendor to the choreography. In her performance, Lugo expressed feelings of sadness and anger, and glimpses of the outpouring of emotion were not absent from her, and the audience bid her farewell with shouts of “Ole” and clapping of hands. The curtain closes this section with “KANEKO” and a dreamy beat.
In the second chapter, the duo Nosho Arimani and Fabian Daher presented the masterpieces, with the charming touches of the choir’s voices, the audience, and the beginning with a mawwal who presented the song of our ambassador to the stars, Mrs. Fairouz, “The Sweet De,” which was written by Badi’ Khairy and composed by Sayed Darwish, and its beginning: “This sweet one kneaded in Badriya Your parents owe Kokokomo the dawn. Let us go to the door of God, O industrialist. Make your morning. Good morning, Si Attia.
And then “The Shalabya Girl, almond eyes, I love you from my heart, oh my heart, you are my eyes,” so she brought us back with memory to Al-Rahbanah and “Days on the mind that are tired and gone.”
Daher moved us to the atmosphere of Christmas, so she chose from the words and melodies of the artist Ziad Rahbani a hymn from the icons of the hymns, “Oh, the Virgin Mary, the sun and the moon have risen, and every star in the heavens secretly, O Mother of Jesus, my mother, and my hope, do not neglect me when I am wrong, O morning star, shine.” in our temples, and enlighten our mind, hearing and sight.”
It was followed by the turquoise angelic voice that connects with its monologues between the earth and the sky with the “Karielison” hymn, with the “Jesuit” choir, which begs God to listen to our supplications and respond to us, have mercy and forgiveness, and pray for us from the mother of divine grace, the honorable and pure virgin without the defilement of the Virgin Mary.
And in a quick and elegant combination of our national heritage, crowned by our capital, the bride of the beaches, to whom inspirations bow in homage to her cultural role throughout history.
For a rock as if it were the face of an old sailor, it is from the spirit of the people is wine, it is from its sweat bread and jasmine, so how did it taste
A taste of fire and smoke”, and then “I love you, O Lebanon, O my country, I love you” in the hope that it will be resurrected from its ashes like a phoenix, and this is hoped for by “Lebanon of dignity and stubborn people.”
The spectacle concluded with the Spanish anthem “Unity and Freedom” that unites hearts, a joint duet between Arimani and Daher, and a dance performance that combined flamenco and Lebanese folklore, performed by Karen Lugo and Carlos Mitrobien.
