Pipers from far and wide play for peace & unity

NEW DELHI: Flute enthusiasts in the capital all gathered at the Lotus Temple on Friday evening as the fifth edition of the Raasrang World Flute Festival kicked off. The involved and informed audience, many among them expats, turned up to watch stellar performances by Indian, Korean and Bhutanese flautists.

"The flute is one of the first musical instruments that children are introduced to and it remains with them for the rest of their lives. It is such a simple instrument, yet so beautiful," says Jigme Drukpa, flautist, songwriter and music ethnologist from Thimpu in Bhutan. The 45-year-old taught himself how to play the flute when he was 9 years old.

"I used to help my parents with cowherding as a child. That's when I picked up how to play the flute as I would use it to control the cows," says Drukpa, who studied music in Norway. Drukpa brought with him a variety of flutes—from the tiny reed flute that is no no bigger than a ballpoint pen, to a large Norwegian flute that came without finger holes. He was accompanied on the two-stringed fiddle by Yeshi.

The festival, which was organized by the Krishna Prerna Charitable Trust, in association with The Times of India and the Indian Council of Cultural Relations (ICCR), opened with Indian flautist Samir Seth's rendition of raag Yaman Kalyan, accompanied by Ravi Shankar on the tabla.

Concluding on Sunday, the festival has artists from Belgium, China, Afghanistan and Bangladesh performing as well. "For people who want to know more about other kinds of musical traditions, these festivals are a boon," says Seth, who has trained under Dulal Kaiborty, J K Misr, Jayanta Pande and Chetan Joshi.

Members of the audience were handed out little decorated flutes at the entrance of the auditorium, which they were encouraged to play, instead of clapping, at the end of every performance. The audience participated enthusiastically.

Flautist from South Korea, Sungpil Yang, performed with the daegeum, a traditional Korean transverse flute, made from a single piece of bamboo, which is found in the mountains of South Korea.

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