Music of the Silk Roads

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  • french frank
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    • Feb 2007
    • 30451

    Music of the Silk Roads

    If you happen to be in London on 29th November, 17.30 - 20.00, the British Museum has free concerts 'on a casual drop-in basis' in connection with the museum's Silk Roads exhibition.
    It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
  • eighthobstruction
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    • Nov 2010
    • 6447

    #2
    ....that's a marvellous experience in all likelyhood....
    bong ching

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    • oddoneout
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      • Nov 2015
      • 9271

      #3
      An interesting article that puts a slightly different slant on the Silk Roads
      Two dazzling new exhibitions at the British Library and British Museum show the riches of the supposed east-west link but also highlight problems with the whole idea

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      • vinteuil
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        • Nov 2010
        • 12932

        #4
        Originally posted by oddoneout View Post
        An interesting article that puts a slightly different slant on the Silk Roads
        https://www.theguardian.com/artandde...tern-invention
        ... but Dalrymple is not disinterested here : very much an 'India hand', he has just recently published a book showing how much the west owed to India and is a bit nose-out-of-joint at this rival emphasis...

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        • french frank
          Administrator/Moderator
          • Feb 2007
          • 30451

          #5
          Originally posted by vinteuil View Post

          ... but Dalrymple is not disinterested here : very much an 'India hand', he has just recently published a book showing how much the west owed to India and is a bit nose-out-of-joint at this rival emphasis...
          I wondered about that. But an informative article nevertheless.
          It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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