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Today it has full-fledged music and academic departments (you can do regular schooling alongside learning music), 185 students and 43 full-time staff. Additionally,lunettes chanel, there are overseas volunteers working on campus. For the students the education is free.
Music as education for the disadvantaged is not new in these parts. There is the much older Veereshwar Punyashram in Gadag. It produced great singers and musicians but appears to have gravitated towards a mix of religion, spirituality and music rather than music alone. KSV is different, although graduates from the ashram have found work as teachers here.
The school gets around 300 applications annually. After careful scrutiny, this list is whittled down to about 50-60. Interviews with the academic, music and health departments follow. The school inquires into both child and parental commitment. Among the challenging aspects in this regard is education for the girl child. In a region that is not only socially conservative but has problems like early marriage, it takes much convincing before parents accept that schooling that too one with music in the curriculum is relevant.
KSV currently has 14 college-going students, pursuing subjects ranging from science to music,Raining saptaswaras. All costs for their education are met by the school. The senior-most student is engaged in postgraduate studies. is an accomplished young musician, Woodward said.
KSV is the beginning of what may be a series of music schools. Mathieu Fortier and his brother, Blaise, have founded an overseas organisation called Young Musicians of the World (YMW).
Every year YMW holds two concerts to raise funds for KSV. YMW is attempting to initiate similar schools in different parts of the world. Thus, it is in talks in France to start a music school for the Romany Gypsies, nomads who have a tradition of music but face hostility from settled communities. YMW also wants to start a school in Mali, the African country known for its wealth of music.
Currently KSV has an annual budget of close to Rs 50 lakh. In an attempt to wean off support from YMW and become independently funded, it has partnered the Deshpande Foundation whose founders Gururaj and Jayashree Deshpande hail from north Karnataka. The foundation has helped KSV set up its own fund-raising department.
The rain abated. The sound of roof being pummelled was replaced by the pleasant sounds of individual droplets and escaping trickles of water. Visually it was life come alive in the forest soaked red earth, freshly washed green leaves and moist ambience. A group of students put together a music performance.
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