Category: Art

Listen to the kids who play in landfill

The kids are so good at playing they now travel with the orchestra they made, playing Beethoven!
Each instrument played, is made from rubbish found in the slums of Paraguay by the young person playing it. It is where these kids live and it is music from their hearts. They talk about it here in the two following short clips.
What a change from all the other rubbish going on in the world!

If you can stay here on this post for a bit longer play these two extra clips from the Ted lectures with Favio Chavez Orchestra Director who tells how it all started  (film October 2013)

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Lily’s Song

2014 02 18 Doors brick door called Lily jpg sig

‘You thought I did n’t hear
Your words today
But I did hear you
Through this wooden door
I tried to answer you
But you did n’t hear
The words I said
The day I had to go away
And so you shut the door
Through the mists of time
Now things have come quite clear
It’s too late to say
The words you should have heard me say
Through this wooden door
The words I said to you today
The day I had to go away’

Gill McGrath ©  Lily’s song©  originally A Brick door called Lily 21 February 2014  Neigbourhood Door collection
street flowers https://gillmcgrath.com/violet/

So where did she go, why did she go and why has she never really gone away?  And who is ‘you’? See Lily’s carved white name in the bricked up door. Press to enlarge.

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mash-wonderful happy life-up

For the original 7 minutes before during and after this 13 second sequence -Press the following link- https://gillmcgrath.com/happy/

Wonderful
Aspects of Happy continued

Pharrell Williams Happy song.’It’s a wonderful life’,James Stewart, Donna Reed.full information see top right on screen.

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honeycomb sky. all over. this morning

2014 08 31 Morning 7.30am jpg sig
7 30 am. Looking up at the sky from the bedroom window; honeycomb stretched all over the sky. Felt like being wrapped up inside from here to there.[There must be a name for this sort of cloud]. The day turned out hot and it felt like summer again. Nice, after it being so cold for days on end. End of summer. September tomorrow.
Diary. Gill McGrath©. Last day of August

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