Cempaka Culture and Tourism: School of traditional Chinese music: An oasis in the desert

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Thursday, February 7, 2008

School of traditional Chinese music: An oasis in the desert

The Jakarta Post, Soeryo Winoto

Motorists passing crowded Jl. Tentara Pelajar may not be aware that a school of oriental music is operating in one of the shops lining the Permata Senayan complex in Central Jakarta.

The Jakarta International Oriental Music School (JIOMS), which teaches traditional Chinese music, exists there like an oasis in a desert.

Very few Indonesians are familiar with traditional Chinese music, which is very rarely performed in the country.

The political turmoil of Sept. 1965 contributed to the absence of traditional Chinese music for several decades in Indonesia, where Chinese-related art and cultural performances were prohibited for political reasons.

Discriminatory regulations against ethnic Chinese were lifted gradually following the fall of the New Order regime in 1998, which led to the acknowledgement of the Chinese New Year as a national holiday.

Many Chinese-Indonesians expressed joy over their new freedoms by forming groups that played traditional Chinese music, which had been a secret activity for decades.

Li Sen is one such traditional Chinese music group, which is based in the Glodok area in downtown Jakarta. The group's members enjoy playing traditional Chinese music together once or twice a week.

Mother-of-three Lia Lau's love for traditional Chinese music inspired her to open JIOMS in Nov. 2005.

Her passion for keeping traditional Chinese music alive is apparent through her initiative to establish the school, which currently has almost 100 students.

"My vision and mission is to preserve traditional Chinese music, which is becoming rare and almost forgotten among the younger generation in Indonesia," said Lia, who masters several musical instruments, in particular the ga zheng or Chinese harp.

"Contributing to Indonesian culture with this kind of music is another goal," she said.

The school offers private classes and several study packages, with monthly tuition fees ranging from between Rp 300,000 to Rp 600,000, with each lesson lasting 45 to 75 minutes.

Students learn basic playing techniques for the traditional musical instruments of their choice and are taught how to play classical Chinese songs.

"I don't know if there are similar schools open in Jakarta. But, this school is the first of its kind and we hire professional teachers from China."

The school, she added, hires three teachers from China, thanks to cooperation with the School of Art in China's Fu Jian province.

"We apply an international curriculum based on the methods used in China and graduating students get an international certificate issued by China's School of Art," Lia said.

Lia expressed hope her students would become professional musicians in the future and help preserve the art of traditional Chinese music.