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Notes from Austria
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The Alpine Music Quartet entertained at the AAFT
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DIFFERENT NOTES The Alpine Music Quartet in Noida
The Asian Academy of Film and Television (AAFT) played host to the Austrian Cultural team represented by the renowned Alpine Music Quartet band comprisingUlrich Gabriel, Philip Lingg, Evelyn Fink Mennel and Hans Rinner. The team also included leading filmmakers like Wolfgang Morth, Robert Polak, Luica Mennel, Kamalakanta Mohanty and Markus Bande who are currently making a documentary. Bollywood actor Sanjay Kapoor was also present to promote international relations through films and television.
Kapoor gave extempore answers in the wittiest manner possible. The show stealer was, of course, the Austrian musicians who proved that music overcomes the barriers of language.
They presented four compositions "Loba", "An Alta Vienna", "Forget Remember", "Gigomichelers Schlichar'."Loba", is the prayer call, which originated in Switzerland. It sounds like a Christmas carol at the start but it slowly turns pious. "An Alta Vienna" is an old Viennese song with yodelling.It is the traditional form of contact in the mountains, because it can be a daunting task to search the hills physically.
"Forget Remember" shows the conflict of minds when we are supposed to remember some things but forget others, but sometimes the exact opposite happens. The last song "Gigomichelers Schlichar", was the best. The song used only monosyllables; music was produced only through clapping and the accordion. The focus was only on the voice just like in old Bengali songs.
The Austrian group was presented with a lifetime membership to the prestigious International Film and Television Club. Kapoor appreciated the cutting edge technology provided to the exchange students, by AAFT. Recently 25 students visited from Bhutan and next month a group from UK will be visiting for a musical conference.
The Austrian team also visited Hardwar, Rishikesh, Agra, Varanasi, Kolkata and Puri. They were also gifted a Harmonium. They said that a lot of misconceptions about India were cleared as they explored the country .
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