ÉDITO

Two of the events announced in our previous letter have come to pass : firstly, the major exhibition on Tagore and Daniélou at Casa Asia in Barcelona, which was opened in July and closes on October 20th, and secondly, the exhibition of photographs “Lumières de l’Inde” at the bookstore Itinéraires, opened at the end of June by H.E. Dilip LAHIRI, the Ambassador of India in Paris, which stays open until the end of September, when it moves to the bookstore la Mandragore at Châlon-en-Champagne. A double of this exhibition is continuing its peregrinations around the Alliances Françaises in India.

With neither photos nor documents on show, the virtual nature of the Barcelona exhibition makes it especially interesting, since it requires the visitors’ active participation. Using an ordinary PC mouse, the visitor can view a number of CD Roms on large screens, select and listen to recorded music through earphones, zap through the controls to see works projected on screen.

Besides these two events, the autumn proposes other new activities. The first is a seminar at the Cini Foundation in Venice to present the digitising of a set of 350,000 data cards prepared by Alain Daniélou and a team of pandits at Benares University in the ‘forties and ‘fifties. This will be followed by the publication of the book containing the musical scores of eighteen songs by Rabindranath Tagore, translated into English and French by Alain Daniélou, who also wrote the accompaniment for piano, the publication of a catalogue of all Alain Daniélou’s works, a brochure commemorating the tenth anniversary of his death and, lastly, the fourth of the Mleccha’s Exercise Books, this one devoted to Hinduism (French edition).

Happy reading and best wishes for the Equinox !

ACTUALITÉS

 OMAGGIO A ALAIN DANIELOU
25 Ottobre, Venezia, Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore.
A dieci anni dalla scomparsa di Alain Daniélou, l’Istituto « Venezia e l’Oriente » e l’Istituto Interculturale di Studi Musicali Comparati rendono omaggio al grande musicologo e indologo che nel 1970 fondo l’Istituto Interculturale di Studi Musicali Comparati e che nel 1971 dono la sua ricca biblioteca all’Istituto « Venezia e l’Oriente ».