Music and spirituality - VIDEO
Interview with Jean During, orientalist, musicologist and research director at The National Centre for Scientific Research (Centre national de la recherche scientifique or CNRS).
This specialist in Central Asia and author of numerous books here describes the particular characteristics of Ostad Elahiâs music, putting it in relation with his spiritual teachings. The questions examined are the following: Why is Ostad Elahi recognized as the âmasterâ of tanbur? To what extent and how did he reinvent its musical tradition? What place did music have for Ostad Elahi? Can his music be qualified as âmeditativeâ? Is Ostad Elahiâs spiritual teaching as singular as his music? The views presented in this brief interview, are more extensively developed by Jean During in The Spirit of Sounds: The Unique Art of Ostad Elahi (LâÃme des sons : lâart unique dâOstad Elahi), 2003 by Rosemont Publishing and Printing Corporation.
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