Musa’s Journey
A unique musical project for our generation’s most pressing challenges: water scarcity and climate change.
"QWAQWA, South Africa - Girl's drowning sparks water riot in thirsty South African township."
Reuters, February 10, 2020.
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A classical music project to raise funds for those suffering from water scarcity and climate change.
Musa's Journey project was inspired on a heart-wrenching news piece published in February 2020. Thomas was deeply touched by this reporting of a young girl's drowning as she had to fetch for water in well, caused by severe drought and unprecedented water shortages in a South African city. In our current climate crisis, droughts are becoming more and more frequent and intense in the continent, increasing the adversities and the risk faced by society's most vulnerable. This project puts contemporary classical music at the service of a philanthropic organisation, helping raise funds for those suffering from water scarcity and other effects of climate change.
We invite you to be a patron, in the name of a Philanthropic Organization such as Medair, to this project that allies contemporary classical music and social action .
The Music
A multi-movement solo classical guitar work by Dušan Bogdanović that captures the changing landscapes two sisters have to traverse to find drinking water—the story of an intensifying plight under climate change.
Composed by the world-renowned Dušan Bogdanović, one of today's greatest living guitar composers, this piece will be inspired on the technique and musical traditions of West Africa. In particular, the nomadic ‘griots’ - traveling musicians, poets and story tellers. The music and poetic nature of griot culture will run parallel with the theme of Musas' journey.
Through this set of griot story telling we hope to bring light and awareness to the situation that so many children will increasingly be facing in our current climate crisis. The piece will be composed for the 10 string guitar in order to incorporate some of the techniques of the Kora — a traditional west African instrument with 21 strings that shares many similarities to the classical guitar. Each movement will represent a landscape that is changing, echoing both Musa's journey and the changes in our current climate.
