Over the last two weeks, twenty second hand pianos were installed around the streets of Geneva with a simple label on them:
''Jouez, je suis à vous'', in other words, "Play me, I'm yours".
''Jouez, je suis à vous'', in other words, "Play me, I'm yours".
Based on the original concept by Luke Jerram to enhance communication between people, this event took place simultaneously in twenty cities around the world.
Back in 1887, Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof, a polish doctor, published an ambitious project: "Lingvo Interacia", which was to be known as the most important attempt to create an international language. He named it Esperanto (Hope). Zamenhof's language and Jerram's project share a common goal: make people use an easy to learn, politically neutral language. Ĉu vi parolas Esperanton?
In the meanwhile, we still have music.
In the meanwhile, we still have music.
"Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words."
Robert G. Ingersoll
Robert G. Ingersoll
