00:01It's a big, huge honor for us to be a part of this wonderful evening, this wonderful festival.
00:13For 18 editions, the festival, named after Azerbaijan's renault composer Uzair Hejbeili,
00:21has kept his music at the center of the country's cultural calendar. This year the program stretches
00:27from concerts to exhibitions and a selection of events exploring the musical ties of the
00:33Turkic world.
00:36This year, of course, the opening ceremony was very special because we also performed pieces
00:45by the Turkic country's composers.
00:51The wider connection is also rooted in Hejbeili's own approach to music, drawing on Azerbaijani's
00:57traditions while engaging with Western classical forms.
01:02Biz həmişə Üzeyr Hacıbəylinin doğum gününü qeyd edirik, amma necə qeyd edirik?
01:07Böyük bir festivalla, beynəlxalq festivalla. Biz Üzeyr Hacıbəylinin çox belə yüksək dəyərləndiririk
01:13və bu festivalla onun qarşısında öz ehtiramımızı ifadə edirik. O, əsrin əvvəlində çox böyük
01:18bir iş gerçəkləşdirdi. O, göstərdi ki, şərb və qərb arasında uçurum yoxdur. Üzeyr bəy onları bir araya gətirdi
01:26və bu sintezin, bu uzlaşmanın həl yollarını göstərdi. Biz bu festival çərçivəsində bu dəfə
01:34böyük bir forum keçirilirik və bu forum 1926-cı ildə Bakıda bərqərar olan Türkoloji qurultay şərəfində keçilirik.
01:44And that fusion is not only part of Hacıbəyli's history, it is something performers
01:50can still recognize in his music today.
01:54I feel that Üzeyr Hacıbəyiz in this composition method connected the Azarian traditional music
02:03or with the classical music in the western sense of the word. And I felt that some of the composers
02:13in my country in Hungary, maybe Lása Lojta or Zsuzsa Enescu in Romania did the same.
02:20This year's festival takes that idea beyond the concert program with cultural events and performances
02:27held in different locations in Azerbaijan and abroad.
02:46Take it on, Hacıbəyli's classical music continues to bridge
02:50Azerbaijani musical traditions and inspire new generations of performers.
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