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Issue No: 299-300, June-July 2014

Conducting for harmony

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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Benimadhav Mohanty, India, 04th Dec 2019, 05.56 AM

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...!

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  • Auroville Organization in decline
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