CONTENTS

No.249 July/August 2008

FRONTLINE

6 ON YER BIKE 6 REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL 7 SONGS FOR ACTION 8 ARTISTS’ PROJECT EARTH

MUSIC FOR TRANSFORMATION

10 WHAT IS MUSIC? ANNIE LENNOX Music is a wonderful gift to humanity.

12 CONVERSATIONS AND CROSSROADS MARK KIDEL Musical traditions need both openness and protection to evolve.

15 LETTING GO HOWARD MILNER Singing connects us to our feelings.

16 A LIVING FORCE GAVIN HENDERSON Dartington Summer School nurtures the alchemy of music.

18 BEAUTY SPEAKS IAN SKELLY Music, like Nature, is made up of harmonic patterns.

22 INSPIRATION AND CONTEMPLATION SARA MOHR-PIETSCH Music inspired by the sounds and forces of Nature.

24 COLOURFUL LEARNING MICHAEL MAXWELL STEER A new approach to teaching music.

27 FREESTYLING BRIAN ENO Acapella: the joy of making a beautiful sound.

28 SONGS OF CONSCIENCE

Homage to Claude Debussy by Raoul Dufy © ADAGP, PARIS AND DACS, LONDON 2008/BRIDGEMAN ART LIBRARY

UNDERCURRENTS

30 SUBLIME EXPRESSION PHILIP MARSDEN Nature is being re-examined by modern writers.

32 BACK TO OUR ROOTS LORNA HOWARTH Nurturing the soil for future generations.

Photographs on pages 2 and 3: Bob Marley COURTESY: GOOGLE; Yehudi Menuhin PHOTO

GRAPH: AP PHOTO/ECKEHARD SCHULZ; Bob Geldof PHOTOGRAPH: AP PHOTO/LEFTERIS PITARAKIS; Satyagraha PHOTOGRAPH: CLIVE BARDA/ArenaPAL; Joan Baez and Bob Dylan PHOTOGRAPH: AP

PHOTO/RAY STUBBLEBINE

CLIMATE CHANGE

34 BURNING ICE DAVID BUCKLAND An introduction to the Cape Farewell Project.

37 FROZEN LIGHT ANGUS McDONALD The sublime wonder of sea ice.

38 MELTING GODS NICK HUNT Climate change even affects our religious beliefs.

40 COLD CONTINENT MARTIN REDFERN The changing nature of Antarctica.

at the heart of earth, art and spirit

July/August 2008 No. 249 £4.95 US$9.75

MUSIC FOR TRANSFORMATION Guest Editor: Annie Lennox

Miniture steel drums in a craft market, Tobago

PHOTOGRAPH: ANNA WATSON/AXIOM

REGULARS

2 WELCOME SATISH KUMAR

42 VOICE FROM THE SOUTH VANDANA SHIVA

44 SLOW TRAVEL MERLIN SHELDRAKE

46 LETTER FROM AMERICA DANIEL BELLOW

47 RECIPES DAPHNE LAMBERT

48 GARDENING BRIGITTE NORLAND

50 LETTERS TO THE EDITORS

ILLUSTRATORS SANDY BROWN is a ceramicist and Art Advisor to Resurgence. BRIAN HANSCOMB is a painter and engraver living in Cornwall. MATT KENYON illustrates for The Guardian.

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