Скачать или смотреть Tracing Remnants of the Musical Heritage from the Ruins of 'Punjab' — their Conservation

Our honorable Guest Bhai Baldeep Singh is often described as the Renaissance Man of Punjab. There are two distinct senses in which this is appropriate. The more familiar sense will recall the many talents of the polymath Leonardo da Vinci, for Bhai Baldeep Singh is a formidable percussionist and singer, filmmaker and politician, luthier and poet. The less familiar but more fundamental sense in which this epithet is apposite evokes the exquisite historical sensibility and cultural interventions of the poet Francesco Petrarca, who perceived Rome’s decline and envisioned her rebirth. In the later 80s, Bhai Baldeep Singh embarked upon a spectacularly ambitious project to usher in a cultural renaissance in South Asia. Born in the thirteenth generation of a family blessed to serve the Sikh legacy from the time of Gurū Nānak, he renounced a career as a fighter pilot to conserve the endangered tradition of Sikh sacred music.