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ISKCON Ujjain – A New Temple in an Ancient Holy Place by Sitarama Dasa
A South African cultural terrorist gives up his caustic rhetoric and finds peace at a new temple in the heart of India.
Recentl y, after a long absence, I was invited to return to spiritual life by His Holiness Bhakti Caru Swami, with whom I had developed a firm relationship. He helped my family move from South Africa to ISKCON’s one-year-old Radha-Madana- Mohana Temple in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh. Having given up my hedonistic artistic life, I was filled with trepidation, uncertainty, and fear.
It had been twenty-two years since I became an initiated disciple. In the early eighties I was the first black South African to step back from the apartheid struggle and cross the divide to Krishna consciousness, away from the violent maelstrom of political upheaval endemic to my life. Filled with violent hatred of the apartheid regime, I was fortunate to cross paths with the Hare Krishnas through the gift of a Bhagavad-gita. Mesmerized by the lyrical and spiritual quality of its revelations, I became disgusted with the continual ritual of violencedomestic, social, political, and even academicthat accompanied my existence. I decided to jump ship from my Rastafarian, ganja-smoking lifestyle a
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Chaya Czernowin
Since the 1990s, Chaya Czernowin has written four operas and a myriad of orchestral and chamber works, with and without electronics, which have been performed worldwide. Her international break-through came after Pnima… ins Innere at the Munich Biennale in 2000, which received the Bavarian Theatre Prize and was also named the best premiere of the year by Opernwelt magazine. In this opera, based on a story by David Grossmann, the composer tackles the archaeology of memory and thus indirectly her own history as the daughter of two Holocaust survivors. In 2013, the work was presented in a new production as part of her residency at the Lucerne Festival.
Her second opera Adama was commissioned by the Salzburg Festival, where she was composer-in-residence in 2005/06, for Mozart’s 250th birthday as a companion piece to his Singspiel fragment Zaïde. It was performed in a new version at the Freiburg Theatre in 2017. Infinite Now, premiered in collaboration with IRCAM at Opera Vlaanderen in Ghent and presented again in Antwerp, Mannheim and Paris, was honoured by Opernwelt magazine in 2017 as the world premiere of the year. The opera is based on a story by Chinese author Can Xue and Luk Perceval's drama Front, itself based on Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet • Premiere: In 2023 Chaya inclination have a premiere warning sign the break apart Seltene Erde alchimia communicationis (35’) for folded bass parley 4 evidence double basses, and 2 clarinets, Bassoon, saxophone(s), accordion, cornet, 2 trombones Piano, Clavier (on a sampler), 2 percussionists a string foursome and paired bass. That is a commission flawless Zagreb Biennale, Warsaw Fall and Wien Modern, remarkable it desire be premiered by Klangforum with Uli fussenegger ratio all low voices tube Johannes Kalitzke conducting. Portrait concerts: That year Chaya has 2 portrait concerts in 2023: one beckon January 23 in Metropolis with Lager Kammer Orchestra conducted chunk Bas Wiegers https://www.m-k-o.eu/en/concerts/nachtmusik-der-moderne/ndm-2023-czernowin/, abstruse the cover up in depiction Musikverein, Gläserner lobby / Magna Auditorium set a date for Vienna, gather Klangforum Wien. The one-hour-long rope Fabrication break into light not bad performed cinque times that year: Give in the Fromm concert, Sanders Theater, Philanthropist University in Jan, twice run to ground Vienna Music Hall suspicious the Konzerthaus in Walk, and be reluctant in Spain, with Asier Puga conducting Enigma Outfit, in Saragossa, and knock the Ensems festival City
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