ABOUT KAMRAN’s Blog and GUEST BLOG
I- KAMRAN’s Blog: Dedicated to the Common Good- aiming to be a source of hope and inspiration; enabling us all to move from despair to hope; darkness to light and competition to cooperation. “Let the beauty we love be what we do.”-Rumi
II- KAMRAN MOFID’s GUEST’s BLOG: Here on The Guest Blog you’ll find commentary, analysis, insight and at times provocation from some of the world’s influential and spiritual thought leaders as they weigh in on critical questions about the state of the world, the emerging societal issues, the dominant socio-economic logic, globalisation, money, markets, sustainability, dialogue, cooperation, environment, media, spirituality, faith, culture, the youth, the purpose of business and economic life, the crucial role of leadership, and the challenges facing economic, business, management, education, and more.
“When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming together it is the beginning of reality.”—Helder Camara
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Acker Bilk, born January 28 1929, died November 2 2014
Acker Bilk was a bowler-hatted titan of Trad jazz who conjured a warm, sentimental sound from his clarinet
Acker Bilk: The "Great Master of the Clarinet"
His beautiful music has been a source of inspiration to me ever since I first heard his music in 1973. It was the first time that I had met my future father-in-law, the late Tery Clifford in Coventry. I had gone there from Oxford, where I had met Annie, to meet her family.
It was late one evening that I heard a most beautiful sound coming from the sitting room. Terry was listening to his favourite album, and Acker Bilk was playing the Stranger On The Shore. It was truly a beautiful sound. It was inspiring. It made me to dream and think about good things in life. It was soothing and healing, what many years later I would call ‘Music for the Common Good’, touching everybody’s heart.
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