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2014-10-30 12:31:00
Listening with the ear of the heart
Mysticism is older than religion; in fact it is as old as mankind. Listening to music can provide a range of experiences from the entertaining to the ineffable, and at the highest level listening to music can be a mystical - which is very different to religious - experience. There are many great traditions of mystical music, and the music performed at Sufi rituals is one of those great traditions. In recent years there has been a revival of interest in mystical art music, possibly as a reaction against the attempted annexation of Western classical music by the entertainment industry. Sufi music ranging from the chants of brotherhoods from al-Ándalus, through electro-Rumi in Istanbul and esoterically inspired jazz in Aleppo, to Qawwali at the shrine of Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia in Delhi has featured On An Overgrown Path over the years. I was therefore delighted to be commissioned to write […]
2014-09-02 09:28:00
Classical music needs wider as well as younger audiences
Arguments continue to rage as to whether classical music is elitist. If the commonly accepted definition of elitist as an offensive air of superiority is applied, classical music has little to answer for. However, if the alternative definition of control by a select and powerful group is used, the defence is much weaker. Classical music remains a predominantly white, Judaeo-Christian, Euro-centric, corporate-controlled, male dominated art form, and, even in the 21st century, attitudes such as ’I don't believe in Negro symphony conductors’ still persist. This ethnocultural hegemony extends to the repertoire, which remains rooted in the white, Judaeo-Christian tradition. This means that the term 'classical music' is automatically assumed to refer to Western classical music, despite there being an equally strong tradition of classical music in non-Western countries. Western society is now ethnically and culturally diverse; yet, despite this, virtually every attempt to expand the market for classical […]
2014-07-23 09:13:00
Ramadan nights
Qawwali music at the shrine of the Sufi saint Nizamuddin Auliya in Delhi after sunset last Saturday. My Ramadan nights are being spent at a Buddhist puja in Ladakh, a Sufi ritual in India, the Freiburg Opera Parsifal in Norwich, and, finally, at William Byrd's Mass for Five Voices in the beautiful church of St Peter and St Paul in Salle, Norfolk. At the Salzburg Summer Festival during Ramadan there are performances of Sufi chants by an Egyptian brotherhood, the premiere of a work celebrating the Sufi martyr Mansur al-Hallağ by the Palestinan-Israeli composer Samir Odeh-Tamimi coupled with sacred music by Anton Bruckner and Hildegard von Bingen, and a presentation of Jordi Savall's inter-faith Bal·Kan: Honey and Blood project; it has been my privilege to write the programme essays for those three Salzburg concerts. The controversial Muslim cleric Abdalqadir as-Sufi (aka Ian Dallas) found in Parsifal "pure religion itself". […]
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