Darwish Al Bahar

Immortal male maestro and people s artist Mr. Darwish Al Bahar


By: Fatin Khater
Part 1.
One day a small, burgundy-colored young man stood up, waving his hair with the magic of the sea, the Great Sea of Alexandria, The Secret, which he left and came to Cairo to tweet to the audience a chant that did not appeal to them very much then, the young man returned to the scenes sad not knowing what to do, return from where he came when Sheikh Salama Hegazi stood to say the most speech:
"Watch out for this young man, and remember that I am proud of him, and know his announcement in the next."
This young man was Mr. Darwish Al-Bahar, known as Sheikh Sayed Darwish, the artist who was first voiced by the audience on stage, he was the only artist who rose with this audience, represented by the people of all categories, the worker, the peasant, the Arab, to the highest musical ranks, from which The Legend of the people was made, which was immortalized in the consciousness of the creative art committed over generations and will remain for a long time, the artist in which Professor Marcel Khalifah said the greatest musical phrase and the strongest characterization honoring his professor: "we learned from Sheikh Sayed Darwish to commit to just causes."
Darwish is the most important musician who shone at the beginning of the twentieth century, im-print-ed on the memory with melodies and musical pieces that formed an original corner of the consciousness of peoples, and established a very special and unique auditory memory.


musical revolution
Darwish exploded a musical revolution, he is the undisputed pioneer of musical and creative change that established the entire Arab musical entity, he developed a philosophical creative form that represents a miracle in art and continued to build on it a number of composers after him.
The creative vocabulary of Sheikh Sayed Darwish.
The melodies of the Darwish are around for almost a hundred years and is still still the pleasure of the audience, as well as most artists, so the melody "visit me every year once" has a duration of no more than 60 seconds, it is said once with the ability of the listener to memorize it from the first time.
Mr. Ziad Rahbani confirmed in one of the dialogues that when making a new record of contributing to this particular melody in one of the studios in Germany, because Mrs. Fairuz would repeat singing it again. some listeners thought that this melody the original track for the world s melody.
Darwish Al-Bahar moved from one musical model to another, not only in his life´-or-Arabic music, but in the entire history of music, in his melody "I am Hoyt", the professor cut at one minute 7:33 seconds, moving to another musical place without any cacophony, which has not happened until recently in the history of Arabic music, and even if it happened, he is considered the Pioneer dervish who did it almost a hundred years ago.

The birth Mr. Darwish was born in 1892 to a family that is not much different from all ordinary Egyptian families, common to toil and striving for the demands of life, and in his hometown in the Kom el-Dekka neighborhood in Alexandria, Darwish drank the popular vocal vocabulary that blended with the sound of the sea, forming his early musical memory, which was then manifested in all his works in a brilliant attempt the same melodies that are now playing in the Egyptian Opera House and may be sung by the Masters of Arabic singing in Remember Hijazi saying, " watch out for this young man .."

The stage of origin and creative formation
At the age of five, his father enrolled him in one of the manuals to memorize the Holy Quran and learn the principles of Reading, after the death of his father, the master attended one of the schools, and there his musical talent appeared, but he left school after a short time heading to work to help the family, the Sheikh worked in several different professions-;- including a construction worker،
But he did not give up his passion for music and singing at that time, he sang at the workplace and echoed with his colleagues, he expressed his musical ambition, which he drank, so he became a part of his day, his life, his existence, his companion and work assistant.
One day the employer noticed that this singing excited the workers, and raised their energies even more on work, so he asked Sheikh Sayed to stop working, and sing only to the workers for his full pay.
This melody, despite its simplicity, is considered one of the greatest melodies of Syed Darwish, in which he used for the first time in Arabic music at that time, the expressive School of composition, he used the theatrical style, used the theme´-or-popular form, and the possibility of melody for harmonic distribution.
establish the musical theater Fate proved the most important stages of his short career when he met with "Amin and Salem Atallah", the most famous art workers at the time, and they admired his talent and invited him to travel with them in 1908 on a trip to the Levant, there he met the poet"Othman al-Musali", who was enthusiastic about his talent, adopted and taught him what he knows, helped him memorize the artistic friction, it was the beginning that helped him a few years later to establish the musical theater.

Part two
The prophecy of Sheikh Salama was fulfilled many times, he testified to the Dervish near and far, the beloved and stranger.
The dervish who blew up a lyrical Revolution, who stood with his slender strings urging the entire people to revolt against tyranny, oppression and exploitation of peoples, is the same artist who created the most wonderful romantic melodies that were distinguished by the majesty of love even in moments of personal individual´-or-homeland breakage.
Alexandria and the meeting of the great
After a while, Darwish returned to Alexandria to sing his first tune, "o fouadi,why he adore", he remained divided between work and music until the voice reached Sheikh Salameh Hegazi and listened to him, and accompanied him to Cairo.

He was the first to create the dramatic structure in the melody, the first to choose lyrics with folk roots, and one of the first artists who linked art with politics and social life, so we hear in the chant " o she rises up, what a Sweet light " lyrics that reflected the day of Egyptian agriculture, and the hard work of workers in a lyrical musical template inseparable from the idea.
The Dervish and the revolution
With the outbreak of the 19 revolution, he devoted all his artistic production to national jihad and urging the people against the colonialist, and after meeting the Tunisian poet Bayram, the word united with the melody, they formed together a duet of the most famous, the most important inimitable artistic duets, and one of the most important melodies of Sheikh Sayed for the Tunisian Bayram "the national anthem, today is your day, soldiers, the best armies in the nations are our armies, and I am the Egyptian", which is an amazing orchestral melodic ascent scheduled in the Arabic word and Pharaonic origin of the creation of Sheikh Sayed.
Darwish is also the first to free the song from the Turkish template, and one of his most famous melodies immortalized by the revolutionary and patriotic conscience is "O belh Zaghloul, Haliwa, belh- Salma ya Salama- Egyptian stand Egypt has always called you" Badi e Khair lyrics.
Art is a commitment
In 1920, he created his own troupe, and produced several lyrical operettas at his own expense, because he believed that art was an issue and an obligation and not a reason for profit, including "the good ten, by the poet Muhammad Timur, Scheherazade, Bayram Tunisian".
Darwish is considered the first to use the orchestra, the first to establish the local melody and put new melodic sentences in his masterpiece tighten the belt on your waist, the researchers believe that the analysis of the poetic House and its relationship to the melody, and its transition between the melody in this work is an amazing innovation.
The Holy Quran is the secret of the genius of Darwish
Sheikh Sayed added to the musical Maqamat "zangran", a new musical Maqam of his own creation, and such a work is considered one of the most difficult formulations in the musical entity.
"Darwish is a genius that has not yet been discovered,"said the philosopher of melody, Riad al-sinbati.
Indeed, Darwish is a genius by all standards, this great artist who changed the entire musical heritage, and the latest breakthrough in the world of music composition in six years is the entirety of his artistic age, he did not receive a formal education, so the Quranic aspect and composition had an outstanding impact on his music, which is his secret, which is his advantage, and added to all Arab composers whose memorization´-or-study of the Holy Quran had a prominent impact on their career, their formulations, melodic hymns and their voices.
The genius of Darwish did not discover the sea, his immortal melodies still did not analyze the musical analysis that elevates its splendor, the anthem "my country my country" is comparable to the world composer Beethoven, as confirmed by researchers.
A mysterious death and an immortal history
"Darwish Al-Bahr" is the first artist in Arab history, the owner of the original and complete intellectual artistic project.
The people s artist left us in 1923 in an ambiguous death, after he wrote several studies about the musician, and included all his musical notes in a book, including the national anthem quoted from the words of the leader Mustafa Kamel, " my country, my country- visit me every year once- o people, I died in love - God is worthy, my heart- tighten the belt on your waist, O shady melodies"
Truly, Darwish is going to stay timeless which he was the idea of the era that emerged at exactly the moment, a creative musical revolution accompanied the revolution of the Egyptian people, thanks to which the composers melody in this modern style imbued with heritage, and also with his art, the people realized that art can accompany, and even take root in the heart of change and social mobility.
If only the story had come out of Gogol s cloak.
The music came out of the mantle of Syed Darwish.
In peace with the spirit of The Legend of Arab music, the grand master, the sheikh of the music sheikhs, who came out of his immaculate cloak the entire Modern Art, the people s artist, and the immortal male.
Sheikh Sayed Darwish Al-Bahr

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