news ache from a piece called kismat especially commissioned by d.w. for the beethoven festival in vaughan it s an annual event and the composer s home town one of the many highlights of the festival is this campus concert where young musicians from different parts of the world come together to make music. and robin merrill from our culture desk is here for more on this now day to robin east meets west in bonn tell us about the i mean very much so every year the german youth orchestra gets with musicians of another country. and this year it s india there are other musicians involved as well and indeed five german percussionists went to india from a group called splash went to india to sort of learn indian musical styles from some of the great for caution is there and i must say this campus project it s all about the rehearsing really the end concert is
a regular feature of the festival every year it brings young musicians from all over the world together for projects and this time they went really far afield. bar is a vibrant and sprawling city on the coast india s gateway to the world this year it s where the campus project kicks off. far beyond charlotte pascoe you and tilmann study classical caution in germany the beethoven first ascent and to mumbai for a week of intensive rehearsals. the indian participants in the campus workshop have arrived and the international team is now complete at twenty young and suge it are seasoned musicians even though they have never attended a conservatory indian music has traditionally been passed down directly from teacher to student garvey and shabana cutter dances rhythmic dance is an
a great role model in terms of triumph of the human spirit over adversity because he went on of course to compose some of his best works after that so this is quite this quote the judge makes me want to go after this to something. it s just an ugly it s regrettable to think that he made all that while he was losing his hearing so whose destiny was we stick with the theme whose destiny is it to play that ok so a couple of really fantastic orchestras the academy of st martin s in the field from london also the orchestra of the age of enlightenment which is the period instrument. orchestra also from london just to name a couple many smaller also mills a lot of soloists a lot of piano duos will be doing some interesting things there will be even quite a number of dance performances so it s very it s very. interdisciplinary the idea is of course to bring the music out to the people but it s also to explore the universality of music as a language and on that note the campus project is someth
cast politics and spirituality. is india s most celebrated contemporary artist his retrospective is on it the more need to party through august twenty sixth. a musical encounter between india and germany the beethoven fest bon brings young musicians together in one by. moment by is a vibrant and sprawling city on the coast of india s gateway to the world and where the twenty eight thousand campus project. study classical percussion in germany the beethoven fast has sent them to moon by for a week their task is to immerse themselves in indian music and find a shared language with indian musicians in september a german indian music event will be held in bonn. and it s very inspiring even
so the musicians unpack their instruments and apply tuning paste indian classical music is a tradition all its own unlike western classical music it doesn t follow britain notes instead it is based on improvise ation but according to very strict rules. can these two soundscapes be brought into harmony ben-hur believe so. yes. with indian music years ago ever since he s been moving and mediating between two musical worlds but the campus project is a challenge for him to the berkshires know who he is where it s over of course the workshop is part of the project so we want the result to be more than just the presentation of workshop results we wanted to be a work of art music and art the second that we will have a lot to explore in various phases right now we re in the experimental phase he