Albert Elias from Israel reminiscing Sulaymaniyeh city - Kur
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Albert Elias is originally an Iraqi jew from Baghdad. He is now a citizen of Israel. He is musician and back in the 40-ies of last century was a flute player and played both arabic and kurdish music. He was working at Baghdad Radio Station-music team and he was a close friend to Nathem Al-Ghazali, kurdish singers Hasan Jazrawi and Ali Mardan. Mr Albert Elias lives now in Ramat Gan-Israel. I visited him at his home (27-2-2009)./nThe interview translation:/nBashir: A minute ago you mentioned about being in Sulaymaniyeh, when was that?/nAlbert: I was in Sulaymanyeh in 1946. At the time I was a student at the Fine Arts Institute in Baghdad studying the flute. By that time a musical group was established by the government and asked us to go to sulaymanyeh to teach music to the youths. Why? Because there was an active communist movement then and the government thought probably by teaching them music they might abandon communism. The group was lead by Jamil Bashir. I was member of this group. We went to Sulaymaniyeh in 1946. It was ramadan month and the streets were all closed. We used to play music in the evenings and by day time we were teaching the youths music. I stayed there one month. There was a local radio station that played music every day./nBashir: Uncle Albert, do you remember the old Sulaymaniyeh?/nAlbert: Yes I do, its mountains and vallys. It was most beautiful. But we did not see any women whatsoever! Why? Because it was Ramadan and the women kept them selves home./nBashir: Uncle Albert, do you remember Ghanim Haddad?/nAlbert: Yes, he was my friend. I worked with him. He is still alive and lives in Jordan. I even have contact with him. He is very close friend of mine. We worked together for a long time at the radio station in Baghdad./nBashir: He compossed a kurdish musical piece called (Sûlav)./nAlbert: I don\'t recall it./nBashir: It is still played often in the radio and TV. It goes like this.../nAlbert: Yes, Ghanim Haddad had compossed alot of music./nBashir: Thank you.
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