Home
Contact me
Sign my Guest book
View my Guest book
Old Guest book
Musical
Principles
Sa :
Voice
Culture
Music Education
Sound
Characteristics �Importance of Yoga in Music Education�
Report of paper presentation
Re : Music Therapy
Noise Pollution
Ga :
Musical
Instruments of India Music
Dictionary Western-Indian
Dictionary Reference Books
Ma :
My
Introduction Programmes /
Workshops Regular Activities
(pics)
Pa :
Raaga Songs from Films
Raagas
Raaga
Concept and Rules
Dha :
World Music
World Music
Day International
Council Letter Worldwide Links
Fusion
Music
Ni :
Music and Yoga :
English Music and Yoga :
Marathi Yoga for
Musicians Yoga
Workshop
Click to join yogamitramandal
Click to join sanskarbharati
|
World Music Day - Council Letter
Letter to all IMC members dated November 30, 1974 and signed by Yehudi
Menuhin and Boris Yarustowski:
"Dear Sir,
The first International Music Day, organised by the International Music
Council, will be held on the 1st of October, 1975, in accordance with the
resolution taken at the 15th General Assembly in Lausanne in 1973.
The intention of this day is to encourage:
� the promotion of our musical art among all sections of society;
� the application of the UNESCO ideals of peace and friendship between
peoples, of the evolution of their cultures, of the exchange of experience
and of the mutual appreciation of their aesthetic values;
� the promotion of the activities of the International Music Council, its
international member organizations end national committees, as well as its
programme policy in general.
In order to put these intentions into practice, our international
organizations and national committees are invited to consider the following
plan of action:
Music Events:
� invite leading composers, interpreters and musicologists to give lectures,
and to speak of the importance of music, of its place in modern life, of the
ideals of UNESCO and of the activities of the IMC
� organize meetings of artists, competitions and musical quizzes;
� organize exhibitions of musical instruments, records, posters, paintings,
sculptures, caricatures, or photographs on musical themes;
� invite delegations of musicians of other national committees to
participate in thiS International Music Day, as well as prize winners of the
IMO Rostrums, arid composers arid interpreters from different continents;
� ask major interpreters in your country to give concerts on International
Music Day for which they would agree to contribute either all, or part of
the proceeds to the Musicians' International Mutual Aid Fund.
Radio and television programmes
� broadcast concerts, as well as talks and debates with the participation of
major personalities who are also music lovers a painters, writers, and even
politicians On this International Music Day, leading members of the IMC will
broadcast special messages.
Press and Recordings
� publish articles in the press to draw the public's attention to
International Music Day;
� organize the exchange of tapes arid records1 using them for demonstration
purposes
The struggle against the pollution of the sound environment
� propose to local authorities that, on this Day, they should order a few
minutes of silence in towns; this period of silence would be used for
listening to music to be played in public places such as parks arid main
squares.
In order to realize these activities, it is essential that we niobium all
the means at our disposal: radio and television, concert societies, opera
companies, amateur societies; a great many different types of localities
should be used to their best advantage: concert halls theatres, cultural
centres, universities, churches, schools, factories, as well as in the open
air: in parks, gardens, and stadiums.
We hope that this first International Music Day will constitute a major
achievement among our' activities, and that it will become an annual event
for the propagation of greater knowledge of our art, arid for the
strengthening of the bonds of peace and friendship between peoples through
music.
Yours faithfully,
Yehudi Menuhin/President
Boris Yarustowski/Vice-President"
|