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Why Carnatic Music Matters More Than Ever

by Ludwig Pesch

Published by Shankar Ramchandran on behalf of Dhvani Ohio | Read or download the full article (PDF, 800 KB, updated 19 June 2021):

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Sruti Magazine (October 2018)
Learn more on carnaticstudent.org:
A brief introduction to Carnatic music >>

For this musicologist and author, there are good reasons to believe that Carnatic music matters, perhaps more than ever and almost anywhere in the world. So why not perform and teach it in the service of better education for all, for ecological awareness or in order to promote mutual respect in spite of all our differences? And in the process, get “invigorated and better equipped to tackle the larger issues at hand”.

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Die Musik ist der einzige Bereich, in dem der Mensch die Gegenwart realisiert

Igor Strawinsky in seinen Erinnerungen aus dem Jahre 1936, zitiert von Jean-Pierre Wils in Essay und Diskurs Deutschlandfunk 02.04.2021

Trost und Musik Geschwister im Geiste
Die Musik schaffe es, „die Zeit stillstehen zu lassen“. Scheinbar sind die beiden – die Musik und der Trost – Geschwister im Geiste. Sollte, wer Trost finden will, ihn bei der Musik suchen? Ein passionierter Essay, dessen Motto heißen müsste: von der Musik lernen heißt trösten lernen.


Mir bedeutet unendlich viel, an der Musik Indiens aktiv teilzunehmen: in immer neuen Sequenzen jede Note und jede Geste auszukosten; mit den flexiblen Spannungen von Ton und Rhythmus das Gehör zu schulen; die allgemeine Aufnahmefähigkeit zu steigern.

Yehudi Menuhin in Unvollendete Reise Lebenserinnerungen (1976, S. 305-6)
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Video | Everyone deserves to play music – BBC & #IAmMySong

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-northern-ireland-56734767

A Cookstown teenager has teamed up with the Afghan Women’s Orchestra to star in a music video aimed at peace-building and supporting women’s rights.
Cara Monaghan will perform on the song Gham Be Haya with Afghanistan’s first women’s orchestra – also known as Ensemble Zohra – as part of a partnership with local charity Beyond Skin, funded by the Community Relations Council.
Since recording the song, the Ministry of Education in Afghanistan has banned girls older than 12 from singing in public arenas.
The campaign #IAmMySong has been launched to reverse this decision.

Source: BBC News 13 April 2021
URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-northern-ireland-56734767
Date visited: 29 April 2021

In true music there is no place for communal differences and hostility. True music is created only when life is attuned to a single tune and a single time beat. Music is born only where the strings of the heart are not out of tune.

Mahatma Gandhi – A unique musician” by Namrata Mishra >>
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A Theatre for All: Sittrarangam (The small theatre Madras) – Free Download

A Theatre for All Sittrarangam—the small theatre Madras by Ludwig Pesch with a Foreword by Himanshu Burte

Download the epub-version for offline reading, printing or getting read out on the Archive.org website >>

eka.grata publications © Amsterdam 2002 (print version), 2016 (ebook versions)

Digital edition © Ludwig Pesch 2016 based on the 2nd revised edition 2002This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/.

Beautifully and very imaginatively conceived. India needs theatres of this kind in every village.

Goverdhan Panchal, Emeritus Instructor of Scene Design at the National School of Drama and author of books and articles on traditional Indian theatre

Project website
https://www.natyasala.mimemo.net/Natyasala/Small_theatre.html

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Sittrarangam is discussed in the chapter on Indian theatre architecture together with Kalakshetra and Kerala Kalamandalam in:
The Oxford Companion to Indian Theatre edited by Ananda Lal (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 18-19
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/470139309

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New CD – Classical instrumental and vocal music from North and South India

The CD consist of two live concerts, one is vichitra veena from Dr Mustafa RASA, and my live concert in Carnatic music at the Vilnius University Theatre performed 2018 featuring Raga Abohi. The CD is also available in digital form in this link.

INDIA IN MUSIC. Dr. Mustafa Raza + / Manickam Yogeswaran +
KUKŪ Records SMF 6-005, 2020
Unique CD recorded and realized in Lithuania with mega stars of India – Dr. Mustafa Raza + from North India playing vichitra veena and owner of golden voice of South carnatic – Manickam Yogeswaran +
12 pages comprehensive booklet in English included.