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 Uzeir Hejbeili,
00:21has kept his music at the center of the country's cultural calendar.
00:25This year, the program stretches from concerts to exhibitions and a selection of events
00:30exploring the musical ties of the Turkic world.
00:36This year, of course, the opening ceremony was very special because we also performed pieces
00:45by the Turkic country's composers.
00:50The wider connection is also rooted in Hejbeili's own approach to music,
00:56drawing on Azerbaijanis traditions while engaging with Western classical forms.
01:01Biz həmişə Üzeyr Hacıbəylinin doğum gününü qeyd edirik, amma necə qeyd edirik?
01:07Böyük bir festivalla, beynəlxalq festivalla.
01:09Biz Üzeyr Hacıbəylinin çox belə yüksək dəyərləndiririk və bu festivalla onun qarşısında öz ehtiramımızı ifadə edirik.
01:16O, əsrin əvvəlində çox böyük bir iş gerçəkləşdirdi.
01:20O, göstərdi ki, çərb və qərb arasında o uçurum yoxdur.
01:24Üzeyr Bəy onları bir araya gətirdi və bu sintezin, bu uzlaşmanın həl yollarını göstərdi.
01:31Biz bu festival çərçivəsində bu dəfə böyük bir forum keçirilirik.
01:36Və bu forum 1926-cı ildə Bakıda bərqərar olan Türkoloji qurultay şərəfində keçirilirik.
01:44And that fusion is not only part of Hacıbəyli's history, it is something performans can still recognize in his music
01:52today.
01:54I feel that Üzeyr Hacıbəyiz, in this composition method, connected the Azarian traditional music with the classical music in the
02:07western sense of the word.
02:09And I found that some of the composers in my country in Hungary, maybe Laszloyta or Georges Enescu in Romania,
02:19did the same.
02:20This year's festival takes that idea beyond the concert program with cultural events and performances held in different locations in
02:29Azerbaijan and abroad.
02:46Take it on, Hacıbəyli's classical music continues to bridge Azerbaijani musical traditions and inspire new generations of performers.
02:55Hacıbəyli's classical music continues to bridge
