Author: child2015
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(Video) A peek into our Christmas Concert
Our Christmas concert was our biggest one yet, with over 130 performers including 100 children in choir and orchestra. Our Facebook page has lots of photos. Do watch this short video put together for us by noted documentary maker Jayesh Akhargekar. Merry Christmas from all of us at Child’s Play and best wishes for 2016!…
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Start every day with a song: A post by our volunteer choral director Nicky Manlove
“Start every day with a song; add a smile and it won’t be long ’til people around you are singing and smiling along, smiling along.” (Elizabeth Gilpatrick, “Start Every Day with a Song”) This is the text to the first song I have been teaching all my children – it is simple but important, and…
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Adopt-a-Musician!
For just Rs.500 a month (6000 a year) you can support the music education of one of our children. Help us give India’s disadvantaged children the joy of playing an instrument, playing together with other children in an ensemble and gain self-confidence, self-esteem and a potential skill for employment when they grow up. We now…
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Thanks to our donors!
We have been very lucky with instrument donations. Whenever we have needed something, our generous band of supporters come through for us and somehow ensure that we get what we need. This is what happened to us recently. Some of our flutes needed repairs and it is more expensive to repair them properly here than…
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Our cello kids perform at Sunaparanta – Goa Centre for the Arts
On March 7, two of our cello kids – Vinayak and Zaheer – along with our volunteer teacher Lukas, performed at Sunaparanta – Goa Centre for the Arts. They provided the music for a play called ‘The King and Queen Want Sweat’, an English play translated from the original Marathi play by Vijay Tendulkar. We…
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World Busk!
David Juritz is a remarkable individual on so many levels. Born in Cape Town South Africa, he won a scholarship to study at London’s Royal College of Music, where he won all the major prizes for violin, including the college’s highest award, the Tagore Medal. On leaving the RCM, he joined the English Chamber Orchestra.…
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Video : Our kids at Auxilium school, Aldona make music!
This lively and enthusiastic bunch of young kids from Auxilium school, Aldona, are learning the violin with our teacher Stefi Cruz. Watch this short video taken recently – they’e made good progress in the last few months! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ3x841fPBE