Photo: Coriolan, courtesy Mia Studio
We are the world and the
nothingness as well. Close your eyes: we are spirit. Open your eyes:
we are the body, we are the light of the Sun, the evening darkness.
Lyrics from ‘Com un
arbre nu’
“The lyrics are
untranslatable but the song is so beautiful,” says Nuria
passionately. She is talking about Com un arbre nu, a Catalan song by
composer Lluís Llach. Accompanied by Matt, she sung it to a rapt
audience in Bharat Nivas during a concert in March. “Singing,
especially in my native tongue, is one of my ways to recharge my
battery,” she explains, “But I also vibrate with these lyrics.”
Recharging is a must as she
has a very heavy workload. That started early, shortly after she
joined Auroville in 1991, when she became conductor of Auroville’s
choir. Not that she had much experience to speak of. “My father was
a choir conductor, so naturally all his children were part of his
choir. But as a child I found the conducting business boring.
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congratualtions for carrying forward the legacy of your ancestor, the greatest Catalan musician that ever lived , and conducted the last concert as the city of Barcelona was being shelled during the Spanish Civil war 1930's, the one and only Pablo Casals, who also headed the govt. then...! and played his cello like no other and bach's complete 48 ''welll tempered clavier'' on piano for warming up every morning till he was more than hundred....one of the gretest legends of our times...!