http://www.couscousglobal.com/id/23012009-04-15T15:29:35+02:00Does Azerbaijan have global music?<p>Azer...... WHAT???? <br/>
Yes, we did not know either where and what this country was...check out these cool people in Baku, main city in Azerbaijan.<br/>
Meet Vazeh:" We want to show the world what we have. Young people are not victims of the Soviet-unioncrush, but they are in this situation. Music and culture change our life. We want to be part of the global musicscene."</p>
<p>Filmed by Neil van der Linden, who was in Azerbaijan last Christmas.</p><hr />
<h2>Baku doesn't only back Bach and Baklava</h2>
<p>Our reporter Neil van der Linden visits young students in instruments and composition of the Baku conservatory. They discuss their interests and their lives. Partly in Russian, mostly in English.</p>
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<h2>Back to Baku once more</h2>
<p>This is part two of the students of the Baku conservatory.</p>
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<h2>Another great country: Azerbaijan</h2>
<p>"We need to show the world, there's an other great country: Azerbaijan"<br/>
Neil has a great conversation with Vazeh.</p>
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<h2>Near the former statue of Kirov in Baku</h2>
<p>A visit to the site where once the statue of Kirov stood, Stalin's right hand man, and where the tombs of those who fell in 1990 in the independence revolution (against Gorbachov!) are; featuring theatre director jenat and playwright gurban.</p>
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<h2>With Jenat and Gurban near the former Kirov statue in Baku 2</h2>
<p>Well, with Jenat and Gurban near the former Kirov statue in Baku continued....<br/>
with a view from the top over downtown Baku and the port, and the tombs of those who fell under Gorbachov(!)'s hands at the beginning of the nineties.</p>
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<h2>Wine and poetry from Azerbaijan</h2>
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<h2>Jazz from Azerbaijan</h2>
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<h2>Rehearsal of antonius and cleoptra in Baku</h2>
<p>The Baku Chamber Theater rehearses George Bernard Shaw's Anthony and Cleopotra in a former aristocratic mansion in a rundown section of the town with director Irina Perlova.</p>
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<h2>Baku Chamber Theatre Anthony and Cleopatra 2</h2>
<p>The Baku Chamber Theatre rehearses G.B. Shaw's adapation of Anthony and Cleopatra, a highly politicised version of the story - director Irina Perlova, translator Gurban, in a fantastic but faded villa on top of the former posh residency area of Baku, now a rundown part of town</p>
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<h2>A walk through Baku 2</h2>
<p>From run down to uptown</p>
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<h2>A walk through Baku 3</h2>
<p>Baku uptown downtown</p>
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<h2>A walk through Baku 4</h2>
<p>Passing a travel agency.. where do Bakunians go for holiday? (if they can afford it, well apparently there are enough who can)</p>
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<h2>A walk through Baku 5</h2>
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<h2>Jenat and gurban in baku</h2>
<p>Jenat explains the content of her play on religions Sheikh Senan through Gurban.</p>
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<hr />-ARTICLEfilm