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Ludwig Tuman
composer, pianist, choir director, author, Venezuela / U.S.A.
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As a teacher I have always enjoyed working with children and adults, coaching aspiring pianists, song-writers and composers, helping produce their CD's, and forming a choir which I directed for several years. As a pianist I have given concerts and recitals. I aspire to express through music the spiritual oneness of humankind, and am attracted to musical cultures of the world's various regions and periods. This has led to a blending of selected musical elements from a wide variety of origins in my compositions.
After studies in music composition and the arts at Harvard and San Francisco State University, I designed and taught courses in both composition and non-Western music at the Chicago Conservatory College in 1977-79. While serving as a Bahá'í pioneer in Venezuela, 1979-95, one of my activities was to create and produce music for television. It has been my privilege to have a book and several pieces published concerning the arts, including Mirror of the Divine: Art in the Bahá'í World Community (326 pp., George Ronald, Publisher, Oxford, 1993); "The Spiritual Role of Art" in The Bahá'í World, Vol XX, 1986-1992; Nine Steps for Raising and Nurturing a Bahá'í Community Choir, a booklet co-authored with Kathy Tahiri (pub.by Celestial Navigation, Wilmette, Illinois, 2001); "Kunst im Dienste der Bahá'í-Religion", translation into German of "Can Art for the Bahá'í Faith Become Distinctive?" produced by the Association for Bahá'í Studies for German-Speaking Europe, in Kunst: Dienerin der Einheit? (Bahá'í-Verlag, Hoffheim, Germany, 2001); and "Toward Critical Foundations for a World Culture of the Arts," in World Order magazine (Wilmette, Illinois, Summer 1975). Mirror of the Divine was written to offer the Bahá'í community a perspective on the spiritual nature of the arts at a time when it has been called upon to make increasing use of them in community life. It has been translated to Spanish as Espejo de lo Divino (Arca Editorial, Barcelona, Spain, 2001). It is concerned with all kinds of art, including those which are traditionally called "fine arts" such as film, music, dance, painting and theater, "crafts" such as pottery and rug-weaving, and "design arts" such as architecture and urban planning. Its subtitle, "Art in the Bahá'í World Community," reflects an attempt to take a fresh, world-embracing, Bahá'í perspective rather than one rooted in a current or traditional cultural philosophy. It also reflects the book's concern with art as an integrated part of community life. These concerns are reflected, for example, in the 110 visual illustrations and numerous verbal examples it draws from cultures in all continents of the world, as well as an examination of over 200 quotations from the Bahá'í Writings. |
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