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Thanks for rekindling Guyana Music festival

Apr 21, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
Being part of an appreciative audience at the opening session of the Guyana Musical Festival, it was a source of great joy to see this activity being rekindled.
The fact that it was not a sellout audience, I hope in no way discourages the Chairman, David Dewar and the festival committee. They deserve public commendation – glory be to these patriots, who have reviewed what was once a popular and significant national event.
Caryle puts it nicely “music is a kind of inarticulate unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite and let us for a moment gaze into that”.

Let us hope and pray that society, with support from the Ministry responsible, put in place a programme where music – not noise, is taught or practised in every educational institution across the state.
Without this we run the risk of producing a generation who are no more than cultural barbarian, already evident in certain areas. After the need for food, shelter and to clothe ourselves, music is that great material necessity. Additionally, it is very spiritually uplifting.

As a prelude to another Music Festival, the Festival Committee, Ministry of Education and Culture need to set out booklets or videos to let our youngsters know more of those past great Guyanese musical icons; the likes of Francis Percival, Ivy Loncke, Lynette and Celeste Dolphin, PM De Weever, WAR (Billy Pilgrim), Cecile E. Burgon-Nobrega, Ms. Edith Peters, George Noel, L. R. Kerry, R.C. G. Potter, Valerie Rodway, M.A. Cossou, Peter Koulen, Shirley Garraway, Rev. W. Hawley Bryant and Horace Taitt among others. If we fail to immortalize these patriots we do ourselves and posterity an enormous injustice.

To the Guyana Music Festival Association and Guyana Music teachers Association, Woodside Choir International, M.S., Pastor Errol Insanally, President of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Guyana, the Patron, the Hon. Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Dr. Frank Anthony – Good Luck and keep this good work to help make Guyana a wholesome place we can all be proud of.
We must not forget them.
Hamilton Green, JP.

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