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Marion von Tilzer posted an update
Hi Steve, thank you so much for getting in touch! Wow, would love to hear your podcast about classical music. Are you a musician? Where are you situated? No, I didn’t know about the Goebbels piece ‘Songs of Wars…’ I will definitely check it out – thank you so much for pointing it out to me! Wonderful!
About Malala, it would be fabulous to get in touch with her. (I am in touch faintly with her Fund (through a lady at the UN, who is involved with this project). If I may, I can send you the idea written out in a PDF. It is to have 6 children’s choirs to sing the song written on an excerpt of her Nobel Lecture. So far, I have children’s choirs from Cape Town, India (Mumbai from the Melhi Mehta Foundation, Amsterdam, and the Chicago Children’s choir to participate. … And I have permission to use Malala’s speech by her Fund & the United Nations. The muisc (song) has been published, but I am really waiting to find a TV (like ARTE in Germany/France) or other to get interested to film the project. I would love to present this film to Malala on her Birthday! … .. I think having her there would be fabulous, even if it is just a short message to the children.
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This all sounds great! My ex-colleague works at the WOW/ Women of the world foundation – I’ve reached out to her via LinkedIn and will come back to you, but I’ve not seen her in 6+ years, so we’ll see if it works. Malala Speaks sounds like it might be of interest to WOW too (They run a festival at London’s Southbank Centre each March.)
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OMG, Steve – this sounds amazing – truly WOW! I checked the organization – looks wonderful…. Thank you so much! You won’t believe it, but have been in touch with a producer in London, she had the brilliant idea to present the song as a superimposed recording of all the six Children choirs singing (there are improv parts where this can work) at a Festival in London at the River Thames. The song would be played at a certain time (i.e. 6.30h) every night for a week… It would be amazing to create a Sound installation, so it will be audible over the water. It would be amazing if your friend replies – so we could maybe make this a reality. Thank you again for your fabulous input!
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Hi, this is weird, I can only see one of your replies on the cafe site, but got an email about the other one! My – friend is too strong a word – DOES work for WOW. WOW began as a festival at the Southbank Centre where I worked as one of the classical music team. Then it took on a life of its own…
Who’s the London producer? I’m just being nosey and wonder if I know them (though there are of course many in London). I am in Sri Lanka at the moment and a bit out of the loop (a big bonus for me since performing arts got so badly hit in the last 2 years). The river festival idea sounds fab. Southbank Centre also run a big kids festival every Feb called Imagine; it could sit well there too I suspect-
Hi Steve – wow, lucky you, that you live in Sri Lanka – sounds like a dream – And I understand you have children – how wonderful for them to grow up there… and for horns the humidity is ok – (piano’s in the tropics are hopeless…. haha – used to spend quite some time in India… ).
Is the podcast your main activity at the moment? Curious about your Impossible project!
Thank you so much for your input. The producer from London is called Myriam Blundell-Phillips. She was on the project and unfortunately stepped out, as she was too busy (and I have no money so far) – But she offered that I can always run things by her (she used to work with Michael Nyman. I met her through my friend, who you might know if you are in the classical music world: Jocelyn Pook). Myriam has amazing ideas and is lovely.
In any case, it would be brilliant, if your acquaintance/friend (yes – she DOES work – did read it correctly at first) got interested and we could start to work towards some form of performance/project, maybe at the IMAGINE festival for kids that you mentioned … – I think if we have some kind of performance place, it would be easier to get some film people interested to create a ‘making of – story or so (the reason I want it filmed, is to be able to share it on a larger scale – also for UN platforms, etc) … and then one can think about finding funding…
I just love the idea of children for all continents singing these inspiring words of Malala – we need to look in the direction of hope for sure.
I think Myriam’s idea is the most feasible, also within the idea of Co2 footprint (getting all choirs together, it would have to be an entire evening filling program and a lot of flight tickets, hotels… incredibly expensive). This could just include a children’s choir from London and then all the other choirs would be recorded – maybe the London choir could perform it live …
Thank you again for offering a possibility – let’s see what will happen!
Have a great day!
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