Tekst: Ludwig Pesch | Art: Arun V.C. Mythes, afbeeldingen en een uit de Indiase oudheid overgeleverde verhandeling over het muziektheater geven een indruk hoe geliefd de fluit was. Zo weten we dat ze al lang als een volwaardig muziekinstrument werd ingezet. Naar gelang de streek wordt ze anders aangeduid, bijvoorbeeld als kuzhal in het Tamil (spreek …
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Workshop given on Monday 16 July 2012 Impressions | Song lyrics and video introduction >> This workshop celebrates the capacity of all educators to bring beauty into the lives of children, young people and adults – not only music specialists. This includes those for whom such an experience may so far have seemed a distant dream. Here we explore the …
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Maria Montessori Writes to Her Grandchildren In October 1939, while the “storm of war was gathering in Europe”, Maria and Mario Montessori set off to India to deliver a training course and lecture tour. When Italy became involved in the war, the British rule of India did not give the Montessoris permission to leave; they …
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“Gandhi is a universal figure. […] He is affirmed and avowed in many parts of the world while Indians might of course forget him or scorn him or defile him as they are doing now.” – Historian Ramachandra Guha in conversation with sociologist Nandini Sundar (The Wire, 21 March 2022) >> I would go so far …
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Ludwig Pesch spezialisierte sich auf die südindische Bambusquerflöte, als er im Rahmen des Deutsch-Indischen Kulturabkommens Stipendien zum Studium im heutigen Chennai erhielt. Das Kalakshetra College of Fine Arts (Chennai) verlieh ihm das Diploma First Class und Post-Diploma. Gemeinsam mit seinem Lehrer Ramachandra Shastry (1906-92), einem Vertreter der persönlich geprägten Gurukula-Lehrmethode, hat er bei zahlreichen Anlässen konzertiert – …
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