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SANAA, July 26-- The sound of music is still heard in war-torn Yemen, as a Yemeni musician seeks to achieve his dream of creating a national music group and dozens of young people insist on learning music to get rid of the pain caused by the war. The Yemeni musician Abdullah Al-Diubai carries on the task of teaching dozens of youngsters to play musical instruments, including oud, guitar, violin and others at the Cultural Center in Sanaa. He teaches students in the center from Saturday to Wednesday every week for free. "I am a musician and my dream is to form a band to spread the awareness of music in Yemen," he said. Al-Diubai was a member of a national band founded in 1975, which was composed of forty members playing various musical instruments, but the band ended because of the war. He has two Music Degrees, one of which is about oriental music and the other is western music. Now he teaches young people to play musical instruments according to musical theories that rely on music notes. "We give them a study of the musical rules of the western music, and also the rules of Arabic music and rhythmic. We offer them printed papers of Arabic and foreign songs," he added. Dozens of students learned to play different instruments at the center, which suffers from a lack of musical instruments, while some trainees bring their own musical instruments to learn how to play. | 
