SHARQ TARONALARI INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL - 2017

Дата публикации: Aug 03, 2017 4:25:21 PM

World Melodies

This year, Samarkand hosts the 11th Sharq Taronalari International Festival.

Organized in 1997 at the initiative of the First President and held once in two years the festival of art grows in popularity across the globe. It serves the careful preservation and the development of traditions of national music, uniting through the art the peoples and minorities with diverse languages and traditions, and introducing the people to the beauty and humanism.

If the first Sharq Taronalari Festival got involved the representatives of 31 countries, while the tenth Festival in 2015 was participated by the representatives of 67 countries. This year, the participants grow in number for sure.

Preparations for the Festival are in full swing now in Samarkand. 18 groups are created for to organize the event in high level by rendering quality service in the process of preparation for the festivity, decorating the streets, meeting, accompanying and seeing-off the guests.

The main scene is installed in Registan Square and now the organizing committee is getting ready for the opening ceremony. The actions are being undertaken to venues for photo exhibitions on the history of the Sharq Taronalari International Music Festival, display of the national musical instruments, historical costumes, pieces of visual and applied art and others in the Mirzo Ulughbek Madrassah, the Samarkand Center of Crafts, and city museums.

Culture and recreation parks, children’s music and art schools in Samarkand, Oqdaryo, Urgut, Toyloq, Samarkand, Jomboy, Pastdargom and Payariq districts are getting prepared to host out-of-competition programs of the Festival.

“The Festival participants will be accommodated in several hotels, including Registan Plaza, Regal Palace, Registan, Nodir Samarkand and others,” Mr. Berdiqulov, deputy head of the Samarkand Regional Managing Office for Tourism Development, said. “The best restaurants and cafes of the city meeting high international standards will be at the disposal of the guests. They will serve the Uzbek national meals and those by order of the guests.”

Based on the experience of the previous years, teachers and students of the Samarkand State Institute of Foreign languages will be involved as guides-interpreters.

“We have chosen 100 guides-interpreters in ten languages and 50 more as a reserve,” Mr. Tukhtasinov, rector of the Samarkand State Institute of Foreign Languages, emphasized. “Master classes and trainings are conducted for them to upgrade their skills in the history and culture of Uzbekistan, the history and significance of the Sharq Taronalari Festival. Tours to Samarkand landmarks are also organized.”

Very soon, the Registan Square will be filled with the melodies of the peoples of the world favoring the closing-up of the nations.

(Source: «Uzbekistan Today» newspaper)

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