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The "Panjim Plus" has done a great job of profiling
Ta To Te. It is indeed a great music school...and it produces quality
musicians.
San Antonio D'Mello also has his hands in promoting
computer literacy among......ragpickers and abandoned kids. El Shaddai is
perhaps the only organisation that runs a school for the street kids that is
superior to any regular school for fee-paying students. I have been happy to be
briefly associated with their school kids based in Saligao and their home in
Assagao while Editing the now defunct Mapusa Plus. I wonder if Tina is one
of these students. The lamani kids at the Assagao home could do the Corredinho
better than the bootleg version that we see on the river cruises. With San
Antonio with them, one never had to worry about the quality of the music or the
singing. It had to be good.
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Goanet
Reader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
CREATIVE PURSUITS: WHERE STUDENTS ARE TAUGHT TO TEACH By Tina Hissaria Starting off with home-to-home music classes, Taught To Teach, Ta To Te in short, is today a name to reckon with in the field of music. Five years after opening the music school in Mapusa, in 1995, the overwhelming response prompted them to extend their services to Margao and three months ago to Porvorim. Having meticulously built a reputation for providing quality musical training, they expanded their scope of activity to cover sales and repairs of musical instruments. In the words of the Ta To Te's founder and president San Antonio D'Mello, "It was a plan of God to choose me to reach out to students and adults wanting to learn music. All I had was a language called faith." Covering
both Indian and Western music, the musical instruments
taught include piano, guitar, drums, violin, tabla, vocals, bass guitar, lead guitar, recorder and harmonica. Ta To Te also holds the distinction for having the most number of students appear for the Trinity College exams. As for his future plans for the school, D'Mello is looking at reaching out to locals, especially in villages, who cannot afford their fees. He hopes the government will support him with this. The school also has plans to introduce wind instruments, Indian instruments like dolki, dholakh, sitar and Indian classical dance. .........................................................
The Goa
Department of Art & Culture has given free musical instuments to village
schools and associations during the erstwhile BJP regime.It paid an honorarium
to the music teacher, too. Perhaps the present government can improve on
it. San antonio please tell CM Rane "Ta To Te"...and see if he will be there.
Royalty was known to patronise music and the arts. The genes will be lurking
somewhere...like some dormat Al Quaida cell!
Viva Goa.
Miguel
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