The month of February is culture month par excellence.
Auroville Today selected three performances and one exhibition for a brief
review - acknowledging that many other events deserved to be reviewed as well. The PeacemakersOn 17th and 18th February, the Auroville
Choir Youth Choir and Instrumental Ensemble combined their formidable forces to
present extracts from Karl Jenkins’ The Peacemakers. The Peacemakers is a
choral work which, in Jenkins’ words, “is dedicated to the memory of all those
who lost their lives during armed conflict”. The seventeen movements set to
music texts from ‘messengers of peace’ that extol and evoke the essence of
peace. The ‘messengers’ include figures like Gandhi, Martin Luther King, the
Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela and Rumi as well as extracts from the Bible and the
Qur’an. This is the second time that the Auroville
choirs have performed extracts from the piece, the intention being to perform
the full work next year to celebrate Aurov...
>> More
>> More