1. Sessione autunnale: 15 ottobre 2009
2. Sessione invernale: 13 marzo 2010
3. Sessione estiva: 8-10 luglio 2010
Esami di ammissione
1. 8-10 luglio 2010
domenica 6 settembre 2009
LA CANNA E IL VENTO
Non era mai accadutonel boschetto
gli alberi erano tutti innamorati
di una canna
una cannuccia sottile
che amava invece il vento
il vento che porta la pioggia
Così il boschetto l' aveva ripudiata
La canna innamorata
rispose: per me va bene.
Voi state pure tutti da una parte
che dall' altra c' è il vento della pioggia,
così vuole il mio cuore.
Il boschetto, offeso
sentenziò la morte
per quella innamorata dagli occhi di rugiada,
chiamò il picchio dal becco forte,
e le picchiò, colpì nel cuore
tre, quattro, cinque volte
nel cuore della piccola canna.
Da quel giorno
la canna innamorata divenne flauto
e da quel giorno
le ferite degli amanti
parlano con le ferite del vento,
e cantano,
ovunque nel mondo,
da quel giorno...
(Sherko Bekas, canti d' amore e di libertà del popolo kurdo)
venerdì 4 settembre 2009
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giovedì 3 settembre 2009
Cari Amici,gli incontri 'milanesi' con Lorenzo Squillari sono iniziati felicemente e al primo incontro, dieci giorni fà, abbiamo accolto diversi nuovi flautisti. Continueremo a organizzare gli incontri con cadenza quindicinale, ma vi darò comunque conferma di volta in volta tramite email.
Il prossimo appuntamento, come già anticipato a chi era presente sarà DOMENICA PROSSIMA 13 SETTEMBRE ALLE 14.30 (attenzione abbiamo anticipato leggermente l'orario per non incorrere in troppo traffico alla sera).
Prima lezione gratuita, dopodichè 20 euro di donazione, nessuno sarà rifiutato per mancanza di fondi.
Vi aspetto ancora, presso lo studio di Lucio che ci ospita.
Per informazioni chiamatemi pure,
buona musica a tutti
una volta al mese la prossima sarà.
Domenica 13 settembre ore 14,30
studio: Lucio Ongaro,
Via g. Silva 39
Milano
(mm LOTTO, uscita v.le Monte Rosa, prima strada a sinistra).
domenica 12 luglio 2009
ALI AKBAR KHAN DIES AT 87
Ali Akbar Khan, Indian music master, dies at 87
Paul Liberatore
Posted: 06/19/2009 01:45:25 PM PDT
Ali Akbar Khan seen in this April 13, 2002 file photo, walks through the crowd of adoring well-wishers during the a day-long gala tribute celebrating the 80th birthday of the ledgendary musician at the Veterans Memorial Auditorium in San Rafael. (IJ photo/Jeff Vendsel)
Ali Akbar Khan, founder of the Ali Akbar College of Music in San Rafael and one of the greatest Indian classical musicians of all time, died Thursday night at his home in San Anselmo. He was 87.
Mr. Khan, a master of the sarod, a multistringed, lutelike instrument, died of complications from kidney disease, his family said. He had been on dialysis the past five years and in declining health in recent months.
Called Khansahib by his students, Mr. Khan founded the Ali Akbar College in Fairfax in 1968, later moving the school to San Rafael.
"He led an amazing life," said David Yovino, operations manager at the college, sitting in his office under a framed photograph of Mr. Khan in concert. "And he left this legacy that will go on."
Ali Akbar Khan seen in this August 25, 1975 photo in Fairfax, Calif. (Photo by John O'Hara)
Along with his former brother-in-law, sitar great Ravi Shankar, Mr. Khan is credited with pioneering and popularizing North Indian classical music in the West.
Tabla master Zakir Hussain of San Anselmo played more than 200 concerts with Mr. Khan in his career. Speaking by phone after a concert Friday night in London, he said that Indian musicians owe a huge debt to Mr. Khan.
"Every instrumentalist who picks up an instrument to play Indian classical music has been influenced by him," he said. "He had an incredibly expressive style of playing that people didn't know was possible. Nobody looked at ragas the way he has. His musical sense was so unique and so spontaneously fresh.
"One hundred years down the road, there might be a musicologist convention and people will ask, 'What was the most important thing that elevated the status of instrumental music in India? And they will answer: 'Ali Akbar Khan's arrival.' He was amazing."
Mr. Khan first visited the United States in 1955 to play at the Museum of Modern Art in New York at the invitation of violinist Yehudi Menuhin. He gave the first television performance of Indian music on Alistair Cooke's "Omnibus" show.
The Los Angeles Times called him "a virtuoso of breathtaking skill."
While he recorded many albums and performed widely, he was proudest of being one of the first teachers of Indian classical music in the U.S., devoting most of his life to teaching. More than 10,000 students have passed through his school in Marin over the past 40 years.
The day before he died, he invited his students to a last class at his home.
"He could barely lift his head, but he told us to bring him his harmonium (a small organ)," his 27-year-old son, Alam, said Friday at the family home. "He started singing and teaching us. Some of us were singing and some of us were weeping because we knew he was saying good-bye. He said he wanted to teach until the end, and he did."
Mr. Khan met Mary, his wife of 30 years, when she was a student of dance and tabla at the school.
"We were married in this house, the same house where he died," she said Friday, surrounded by their three children: sons Alam and Manik, 23, both sarod players, and daughter Medina, 18. An older son by a previous marriage, Aashish Khan, himself a master of the sarod, was also present. In all, Mr. Khan had 11 children.
The evening before he died, he asked his sons to bring their instruments to his bedside for a final lesson.
"He gave so much through his teaching," Alam said. "The amount of love he embodied came through in his music. One note played by him went straight to your heart."
When he was just 3 years old, Mr. Khan began studying music with his father, Allauddin Khan, a national hero in India considered the greatest figure in Indian classical music of the 20th century. His father gave him the title of "swara samrat," meaning "emperor of melody."
"My father told me when he was very old, 'You must take this music and teach for as long as you can see the sun and the moon,'" Khan said in a 1974 Independent Journal interview.
When he founded his college in Marin, he said, "This kind of school, after my father's, is the only one of its kind in the world. Someday, if an Indian wants to learn Indian music, he will have to come to America."
Mr. Khan received international recognition for his contributions to the arts when he was awarded a $375,000 MacArthur "genius" grant in 1991.
In a 1993 Independent Journal interview, he said, "When I first came here, there was no interest in this music at all. People had never heard it before. But now I've found that every day in the United States something is going on in this music."
A memorial service and burial will be at noon Sunday at Mt. Tamalpais Cemetery, 2500 Fifth Ave., San Rafael, followed by a gathering at the Ali Akbar College, 215 West End Ave., San Rafael.
The family requests condolences be sent via e-mail to inmemoryofaak@gmail.com. Memorial donations may be made to the Ali Akbar Khan Library at www.aacm.org.
Paul Liberatore
Posted: 06/19/2009 01:45:25 PM PDT
Ali Akbar Khan seen in this April 13, 2002 file photo, walks through the crowd of adoring well-wishers during the a day-long gala tribute celebrating the 80th birthday of the ledgendary musician at the Veterans Memorial Auditorium in San Rafael. (IJ photo/Jeff Vendsel)
Ali Akbar Khan, founder of the Ali Akbar College of Music in San Rafael and one of the greatest Indian classical musicians of all time, died Thursday night at his home in San Anselmo. He was 87.
Mr. Khan, a master of the sarod, a multistringed, lutelike instrument, died of complications from kidney disease, his family said. He had been on dialysis the past five years and in declining health in recent months.
Called Khansahib by his students, Mr. Khan founded the Ali Akbar College in Fairfax in 1968, later moving the school to San Rafael.
"He led an amazing life," said David Yovino, operations manager at the college, sitting in his office under a framed photograph of Mr. Khan in concert. "And he left this legacy that will go on."
Ali Akbar Khan seen in this August 25, 1975 photo in Fairfax, Calif. (Photo by John O'Hara)
Along with his former brother-in-law, sitar great Ravi Shankar, Mr. Khan is credited with pioneering and popularizing North Indian classical music in the West.
Tabla master Zakir Hussain of San Anselmo played more than 200 concerts with Mr. Khan in his career. Speaking by phone after a concert Friday night in London, he said that Indian musicians owe a huge debt to Mr. Khan.
"Every instrumentalist who picks up an instrument to play Indian classical music has been influenced by him," he said. "He had an incredibly expressive style of playing that people didn't know was possible. Nobody looked at ragas the way he has. His musical sense was so unique and so spontaneously fresh.
"One hundred years down the road, there might be a musicologist convention and people will ask, 'What was the most important thing that elevated the status of instrumental music in India? And they will answer: 'Ali Akbar Khan's arrival.' He was amazing."
Mr. Khan first visited the United States in 1955 to play at the Museum of Modern Art in New York at the invitation of violinist Yehudi Menuhin. He gave the first television performance of Indian music on Alistair Cooke's "Omnibus" show.
The Los Angeles Times called him "a virtuoso of breathtaking skill."
While he recorded many albums and performed widely, he was proudest of being one of the first teachers of Indian classical music in the U.S., devoting most of his life to teaching. More than 10,000 students have passed through his school in Marin over the past 40 years.
The day before he died, he invited his students to a last class at his home.
"He could barely lift his head, but he told us to bring him his harmonium (a small organ)," his 27-year-old son, Alam, said Friday at the family home. "He started singing and teaching us. Some of us were singing and some of us were weeping because we knew he was saying good-bye. He said he wanted to teach until the end, and he did."
Mr. Khan met Mary, his wife of 30 years, when she was a student of dance and tabla at the school.
"We were married in this house, the same house where he died," she said Friday, surrounded by their three children: sons Alam and Manik, 23, both sarod players, and daughter Medina, 18. An older son by a previous marriage, Aashish Khan, himself a master of the sarod, was also present. In all, Mr. Khan had 11 children.
The evening before he died, he asked his sons to bring their instruments to his bedside for a final lesson.
"He gave so much through his teaching," Alam said. "The amount of love he embodied came through in his music. One note played by him went straight to your heart."
When he was just 3 years old, Mr. Khan began studying music with his father, Allauddin Khan, a national hero in India considered the greatest figure in Indian classical music of the 20th century. His father gave him the title of "swara samrat," meaning "emperor of melody."
"My father told me when he was very old, 'You must take this music and teach for as long as you can see the sun and the moon,'" Khan said in a 1974 Independent Journal interview.
When he founded his college in Marin, he said, "This kind of school, after my father's, is the only one of its kind in the world. Someday, if an Indian wants to learn Indian music, he will have to come to America."
Mr. Khan received international recognition for his contributions to the arts when he was awarded a $375,000 MacArthur "genius" grant in 1991.
In a 1993 Independent Journal interview, he said, "When I first came here, there was no interest in this music at all. People had never heard it before. But now I've found that every day in the United States something is going on in this music."
A memorial service and burial will be at noon Sunday at Mt. Tamalpais Cemetery, 2500 Fifth Ave., San Rafael, followed by a gathering at the Ali Akbar College, 215 West End Ave., San Rafael.
The family requests condolences be sent via e-mail to inmemoryofaak@gmail.com. Memorial donations may be made to the Ali Akbar Khan Library at www.aacm.org.
sabato 20 giugno 2009
Lezioni estive di Bansuri
Cari amici ,
Vi informo che per l'ultimo fiine settimana di Agosto, sto provando ad organizzare un incontro di 3-4 giorni di lezioni di Bansuri. Si terra vicino a casa mia in un agriturismo, o nel salone comunale. Dipendera' dal numero dei partecipanti.Vorrei sapere quanti di voi potrebbero essere interessati per potermi meglio preparare. Siamo a 25 km da Alba nel basso Piemonte in una zona collinare molto bella e tranquilla che ispira la musica. Nel raggio di pochi Km, vi sono pensioni per tutti i gusti e relative tasche. Cerchero' il modo di fare qualche convenzione piu economicapossibile per chi si trova con la voglia di venire a studiare ma in difficolta monetariaSe siete interessati contattatemi per ulteriori dettagli.
Vi auguro una serena estate
Lorenzo
martedì 24 febbraio 2009
Luci dal sito di Ali Akbar Khan
"This Music is for everyone. Like fresh air, or clean water.In old times, when the old maestros sang or playedinstruments in the temple, all the animals, birds, tigers,lions, everything, anyone came to hear the Music."
"Music is a universal language. The sound of the melodytouches everyones heart and mind. Those people who havenever heard this music take a few minutes to feel it, thenthey enjoy it in their own way."
"I love music. Whatever I can give to my students is mypleasure. Whatever I know, I will give. If you can learn inone day, I'll teach you everything. If you can play betterthan me, it's more pleasure. The better you can play andsing, the more beautifully you can express yourself and this Music."
"My father taught me Music the way most parents teach theirchildren to speak. He was 110 years old when he died, anduntil that time he played constantly, sometimes 23 hours aday."
"Indian Music is like a river or stream that has come downto us through time, bringing nurture to man's soul. From thepast masters, this Music flowed to my father and through himto me. I want to keep this stream flowing, I don't want itto die. It must spread all over the world."
"In the old times, musicians would only learn or teach amongtheir blood relations and only be heard among the royalfamily in court. After independence, the music came toeveryone through the festivals and All India Radio, and themany colleges. Slowly, slowly the music has gone from thecourt to each and everyone"
"My father used to criticize me for 24 years. One note Icouldn't do the proper way and he'd say, 'It's not correct.'I used to think he was getting old and couldn't hear meproperly. Then after 20 years he told me I was there. Irealized he was 100 percent correct and I was wrong."
"Music is the only thing that you can share with a millionmillion people and you don't lose, you gain. It helps you toget energy and to live long, because when your soul is veryhappy then you don't want to die."
"For us, as a family, music is like food. When you need ityou don't have to explain why, because it is basic to life."
"If you practice for 10 years, you may begin to pleaseyourself, after 20 years you may become a performer andplease the audience, after 30 years you may please even yourguru, but you must practice for many more years before youfinally become a true artist-- then you may please evenGod."
"I play for myself. If I like my music, you will like it. IfI do not, you will not.""After eating healthy food you can have a sweet, but if youdon't have the real food and only have the sweets it's notgood for you. Still, if you eat healthy a little chocolateis very nice. You can mix up the music a little bitlike that for fun."
ALI AKBAR KHAN
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