Hearing Myanmar: teaching artistry in Yangon
Community music center Gitameit’s brand new three-story building has just been finished. It sits with fresh concrete and sparkling glass right beside the center’s old, slightly ramshackle building in a small plot on a quiet road of Yangon’s Yankin Township. Gitameit’s music library—a collection of records, tapes, CDs, scores, encyclopedias, and English language resources—will be moving from the cobwebbed eaves of the old building to a larger, purpose-built space on the top floor of the new structure. Below, a number of soundproofed practice rooms have been built. Traditional slide guitar, Myanmarese harp, and piano compete with one other as they escape through the teak floorboards and turquoise walls.
