Paganini Caprice Challenge
Since September, the Paganini Caprice Challenge has raised $11,000 for Cultures in Harmony's projects in 2010. While playing through Paganini's devilishly difficult masterworks, I've provided the soundtrack for an extraordinary film about a lost dog, failed to impress a New York woman, advertised Nutella, stood in the Caribbean, gotten decorated like a Christmas tree, and played for strangers on a speeding train. You, in turn, have opened your hearts and your wallets to the cause of promoting peace through music. Thank you for what you have done so far, and check out the videos here.
For the last two videos, we're raising the stakes. Caprices 23 and 24 will each cost $1,000. That means that donations must total $1,000 before we post #23 and another $1,000 before we post #24. I know that you will respond, and I thank you in advance for heeding the advice of the Pakistani music student who told me in Karachi last August: "Don't just make a link. Build a relationship. You are feeding an entire nation."
A couple other things: belated congratulations are in order for Ming Tanigawa-lau, who won the Hawaii Youth Symphony Essay Contest with this essay about Cultures in Harmony and other initiatives to use music to change society. Congratulations to Ming, whose future seems bright, especially since her high school (Punahou) can boast at least one alumnus who has done rather well.
This BBC article movingly discusses what is lost when a language dies. Want to help preserve the world's linguistic heritage? Then donate to Cultures in Harmony, so we can complete this project in Papua New Guinea.
For the last two videos, we're raising the stakes. Caprices 23 and 24 will each cost $1,000. That means that donations must total $1,000 before we post #23 and another $1,000 before we post #24. I know that you will respond, and I thank you in advance for heeding the advice of the Pakistani music student who told me in Karachi last August: "Don't just make a link. Build a relationship. You are feeding an entire nation."
A couple other things: belated congratulations are in order for Ming Tanigawa-lau, who won the Hawaii Youth Symphony Essay Contest with this essay about Cultures in Harmony and other initiatives to use music to change society. Congratulations to Ming, whose future seems bright, especially since her high school (Punahou) can boast at least one alumnus who has done rather well.
This BBC article movingly discusses what is lost when a language dies. Want to help preserve the world's linguistic heritage? Then donate to Cultures in Harmony, so we can complete this project in Papua New Guinea.
posted by William Harvey | 6:31 PM
1 Comments:
Frontline on PBS recently did a piece on schools and education in Pakistan. It was quite revealing. It will be so interesting to hear what you discover about teaching and living in Afghanistan.
I have also been reading the blogs of the first Abreu Fellows to go to Venezuela and see how they are working with children in the favelas. They are a most ethnically diverse group of musicians and music educators. I think they would also be fascinated with what you have been doing both with the Harmony project and teaching in Afghanistan.
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