Saturday, January 24, 2009

SPIC-MACAY at IIM B: dusk-do-dawn program of classical music and dance on jan 25th

jan 23rd, 2009

i just heard about this yamini program -- apparently it is an annual feature at iim bangalore just before republic day every year. sounds wonderful. and it is free! go, enjoy. what a way to spend the 3-day weekend.

note: you need to print the free passes from the website iimb-yamini.com or get them from hdfc bank branches.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Spic Macay - IIMB <spicmacay@iimb.ernet.in>
Date: Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:29 AM
Subject: YFS-III: Pandit Ronu Mazumdar in Concert!
To:


 Welcome once again to Yamini Fact Series! Today's YFS is about the bansuri and an extraordinary exponent of the instrument, Pandit Ronu Majumdar.

      Etymology: A flute is called a 'bansuri', where bans means bamboo, and sur means melody.

 

      The bansuri is intimately linked to the story of Krishna, an incarnation of God, which he     

                 used to enchant the gopikas of Gokula

 

      From its folk origins, Pt. Pannalal Ghosh introduced it to mainstream classical music.

 

      A contemporary noted player of this instrument is Pandit Ranendranath Majumdar.

 

Ronuji was fascinated by the flute since the age of 6, trained under his father, Dr. Bhanu Majumdar, and later from Pt. Vijaya Raghava Rao, a music scholar. He has  created and specialized his improvised version of the traditional bansuri, called the Shank Bansuri, a 3-ft long flute, used at lower scales. He likes playing earthy tunes such as Kashmiri folk, but has a very wide repertoire including classical, fusion and light music.  

 

He has composed music for Hollywood movie Primary colours and an international film titled Mystic India. Ronuji  received a Grammy nomination for his work on the album Tabula Rasa with Bela Fleck, the American banjo virtuoso. We are honoured to have Panditji perform at Yamini 2009.

 

Videos:                                       With Ustad Zakir Hussain: http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=-V-daAoN33I

Live in concert at Auckland: http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=aTGtxY24F3M

Jugalbandi with Kadri Gopalnath: http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZHs0L9OzM

 

Listen to this Flautist Extraordinaire Live in Concert at Yamini 2009!!!

 

5:30 PM, 25th January | OAT, IIM Bangalore | www.iimb-yamini.com

 

2 comments:

Ghost Writer said...

Also you forgot to mention - please SWITCH OFF your cell phones when you go to this concernt.

I am never one for putting Indians down - but it never ceases to amaze and irritate this the very Indian habit of never turning off your phones at public events. Incidentally, it is never the uneducated or poor who do this. I was at a walk-in yoga class in India at one of SSRS's center's and I can say with confidence the more educated the Indian, the more brazen the attitude. All the poor folk were courteous enough to turn the beeper off

Ganesh Jeyaraman said...

hi.. so did u attend it ..?.. any comments about the event?