Orchestra to perform Gulf folk music concerts during Football World Cup Football admirers and the public have rather more to look forward to throughout this Football World Cup as the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra (QPO) showed it will hold performances featuring Gulf folk music. Nasser Sahim, Deputy Executive Director said to The Peninsula that a similar concert which was performed in August entitled Gulf folk meets Philharmonic will be played during the mega football World Cup tournament. Football fans from all over the world can book Football World Cup tickets from our online platform WorldWideTicketsandHospitality.com. Football fans can book Qatar Football World Cup Tickets on our website at exclusively discounted prices.
The August show was the first of its kind in Qatar. Sahim emphasized that they used the polyphony type of music to combine Gulf folk music and the orchestra. The Deputy Executive Director is the focal person after the concert where he made the musical plans for five to six months. The sold-out August 27 concert wowed the meeting corresponding to Sahim. They liked the music and the performing, and the vital thing that they saw is the folk Qatari music placed within the orchestra, he stated. He said that regardless of if the audience was local or expatriate, they liked the concert and had opened doors to learn more about the Qatari culture. “What I did in the show 'Gulf folk meets Philharmonic' is I’m utilizing the same music the sea songs and conventional music and re-arrange it to polyphonic music from the monotone form to the polyphony form, that involves from one voice to harmonization. We used the same theme and rhythm, creating the art with more harmony to make it fit as a polyphony composition,” Sahim described.