It is impossible to speak about music. Music is speaking about itself. Everything speaks in our world, and everyone speaks. And it is not necessary to discuss the sounds of speaking but its content – the subject. Any subject except the main subject is the chatting. All the genuine must be only about the main subject.
But what is the main subject? It is the subject of the human creation and culture to point to the truth. The culture is not the end in itself – it is only witness of the fact, that we are sick, lost our way and don’t know the truth. The culture is our healer. If we really knew this main subject, we wouldn’t have to speak about it using images and symbols. The symbol points to something which is absent there now. One matter is to have the photo of your darling in your pocket, but another is to look at it when your darling is near you.
The stones know Who they are singing praises to, but the man must understand it and open it up for himself. We don’t have much time for it. The first step is to understand what thing is the main one. That helps us to choose the method of comprehending. Everything has its own method. It is impossible to understand poetry with the help of math, and with the help of poetry one cannot open math guesses.
One can have heard and read the world around us. But to be able to do it he has to understand the signs and images, which show us substance of life. And one has to learn this understanding and can learn it. All the culture is the world of mirrors. Mirrors double the world. The music multiplies the world too. It builds its own images to tell us about the beauty, which is possible only in ideal world, about the impossibility of the opening the completeness of the life for the rest there and right now, about pain, suffering, death and love.
The music speaks with us without words. Its language applies to our hearts to our feelings. It draws imagines invisible for eyes, but visible for our feelings. There are many things in the world which can never be touched and seen. It is like electricity, it is invisible but tangible.
In this sense music is very powerful instrument. The beauty of music is able to captivate the man, to catch him and made him its slave for ever. And this slavery is sweet, because being slave of beauty, love, Lord, - is delightful. The musician is the servant, the slave fallen into the nets of beauty. Overwhelmed with that feelings, he wants to share his happiness and beauty with everybody.
He wants everyone to feel what is opened only for him. Tsvetayeva wrote:
“Oh, world, understand!
The law of the star and the formula of the flower have been opened by the singer in his sleep”.
Alizbar’s music draws his inspiration from the depth of the human culture.
These are pearls selected for the highest handwork. Many generations worked hard, selecting the best substances for feeding soil, to make it suitable for giving birth to the better fruit.
Pure sounds of the strings wave the ether. The string waves the air, and we suddenly hear one of the elements speaking with us, but the element ennobled by human heart and mastership. There it is silence, and the air is quiet. But as soon as the finger touches the string, vibration is seizing us. The air that always knows what it is blowing about suddenly lets us into its secret, which is hidden from wise ones but opened to babies.
What we hear is on the one side the sum of Alizbar’s emotional efforts and mastership, submitting to our judgment. But it is much more because the sprit interferes into our life and makes us feel. The music is able to make us laugh and sob, that’s the kind of its power. And if the poet is the instrument of language, as Brodskiy exactly pointed, the musician is the instrument of music.
Our world is polluted very much with everything including sounds. Musician is responsible of his acts. Serving to music one must have something to say people. If he has built distorting mirrors, they will reflect falsehood, blasphemy to life. A lie will penetrate into the world, and its conductor will be the musician. The truth will be disfigured and distorted. And the worse is the one can infect many people with that contagion.
If the child listens to bad music since its early childhood and thinks it is the last achievement in that sphere, it is the big risk of non-acceptance the masterpiece when this wretch heard it, because his heart will be full of muck, and he will react only on this muck. But the musician can make the miracle!
His gift can ennoble the world, bring the beauty into it, open the way to the truth, satisfy spiritual hunger, and slake spiritual thirst. But the main thing the musician can make is burning hot the spiritual thirst in the human being. Remember Pushkin’s Prophet: parched with spiritual thirst…
I think Alizbar acts as a real master in his music. He perfects his skill and looks for the highest beauty of things he is possessed by and things he is serving to. His music refines the heart and makes it accessible for touching with the real substance of human being. It doesn’t make the heart like that but it gives the heart the possibility. Musician invites us to go on pilgrimage into the world of beauty to share his dearest things with us. He shares his treasures with us and gives us them as an emotional experience and feeling.
archpriest Vitaliy Shinkari