Rabindranath Tagore on new creations: a fundamental human need

Rabindranath Tagore sketched by Dutch artist Martin Monnickendam during a lecture tour in September 1920 © Stadsarchief Amsterdam

“It is not the distinctive quality of man to be a mere repetition of his ancestors. Animals cling to the nests of their effete habits; man expresses himself age after age in new creations.”– Rabindranath Tagore in 1931 1

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Listen to Tagore: Unlocking Cages: Sunil Khilnani tells the story of the Bengali writer and thinker Rabindranath Tagore: https://bbc.in/1KVh4Cf >>
The acclaimed BBC 4 podcast series titled Incarnations: India in 50 Lives has also been published in book form (Allen Lane).

“I was moved by how many of these lives pose challenges to the Indian present,” he writes, “and remind us of future possibilities that are in danger of being closed off.”2

  1. Tagore on Gandhi, New Delhi 2008, p. 31[]
  2. Sunil Khilnani quoted in a review by William Dalrymple in The Guardian, 14 March 2016[]

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Glück ist seine Freude in der Freude anderer zu finden – Bernanos
(zitiert von Frédéric Lenoir in La Puissance de la joie, Le Livre de Poche)

Die englische Bezeichnung AIUME steht für “Adapting Indian Universals in Music Education”: respektvollen Zugang zu einer Kultur, in der Musik als Schlüssel zum interkulturellen Dialog wie auch zur Entdeckung der eigenen Kreativität gilt.

Mit berührenden Melodien und mitreißenden Rhythmen helfen wir Kindern, Jugendlichen und Erwachsenen, sich auf freudige und selbstbewusste Weise auf das gemeinsame Musizieren einzulassen. Dafür sind keinerlei Vorkenntnisse erforderlich.

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The ability of finding joy in the joy of others – voilà: the secret of happiness – Bernanos
(quoted by Frédéric Lenoir in La Puissance de la joie, Le Livre de Poche)

AIUME encapsulates our way of building bridges in an atmosphere of mutual respect: Adapting Indian Universals in Music Education. This is about providing access to a culture wherein music has long fostered intercultural collaboration and creativity.

We enrich the lives of children, young people and adults by immersing ourselves in melodious music and captivating rhythms – joyfully and spontaneously, with self-confidence yet always together.