Friday, February 18, 2011

Do you wanna feel happy?

 
If yes, read, look and listen to Teemu Kupiainen.
His diary Viulunsoittaja kadulla (Fiddler on the Street), illustrated with lovely photographs by Stefan Bremer, tells about his travels in disguise of a street musician playing Bach in China, India, Maroc and France.
No, not in disguise – he, the viola and chamber music teacher at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, WAS a street musician, trying to live with money he got from the audience who could be a garbage collector in Hongkong or the music professor in Paris. Or a lonely cow in India.
This well written book is more than a story of everyday happenings: it is a journey to your inner self. It is sensitive, emotional, funny, painful, comforting.
When you read it, time stops.
There is only music.
Light.
Eternity.
 
Find out more about Teemu on his www-page
And listen to the birds and him playing Bach´s Chaconne in Delhi´s Red Fort


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