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CWM
PAST CONCERT ARCHIVE Presentations in 2004 |
Saturday, April 24, 2004
Evening Ragas,
featuring sitar virtuoso Kartik Seshadri, sitar, accompanied
by Subhankar Banerjee, tabla. Kartik
Seshadri is internationally acclaimed as one of India's
outstanding musicians and foremost disciple of Pandit Ravi Shankar.
The 2004 world tour of Mr. Seshadri coincides with the worldwide
release of his latest two CD set titled "Raga:Rasa - That
which Colors the Mind" on the prestigious audiophile label
Traditional Crossroads slated for a May release in seventeen
countries.
8 p.m., Mandeville Auditorium, UCSD. General admission
$10, students $6.
Presented in collaboration with the UCSD Music Department.
Click for flyer.
Saturday, May 8, 2004
Padma Bhushan Dr. L. Subramaniam, violin virtuoso, will perform with master percussionists Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri, tabla, and Shri Mahesh Krishnamurthy, mridangam.
L. Subramaniam, greatest of classical Indian violinists, was both Paganini and Poet -- San Francisco Chronicle The God of Indian Violin --Times of India, Mumbai L. Subramaniam is the best this listener has heard… New York Times |
7 p.m., Don Powell Theater, San Diego State University. VIP
admission $40, general admission $25, CWM members
$20, students/seniors
$15.
Cosponsored with Raag and Taal.
Saturday, June 19, 2004
Hossein Omoumi, master of the Persian ney (flute) is the most gifted musician of his generation. Highly knowledgeable about radif (the repertoire of classical Persian music) and the secrets of the reed flute, his imagination gives his improvisations a depth approaching the most beautiful texts of the Persian poets. A gifted vocalist as well as flautist, Master Omoumi will be accompanied by Mehrdad Arabi, on tombak and daf, and Kourosh Taghavi, setar.
8:00 p.m., The
Neurosciences Institute,
10640 John Jay Hopkins Dr, San
Diego 92121. General admission $25 (in advance), $30 (at the
door);
$10 students with I.D. CWM members/students/seniors $12.
Info and tickets: (858) 653-0336 or (619) 688-0688.
Cosponsored by the Persian Cultural Center and Zaman Productions.
Saturday, October 16, 2004
Partho Sarathy is one of India's most respected sarod players. As a disciple of Pandit Ravi Shankar, Partho has developed a meditative approach that gives his music a rare depth and charm.
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Padma Bhusan Girija Devi is perhaps the greatest living female vocalist in the North Indian classical tradition. The Chicago Tribune has compared the finesse and emotional intensity of her performances to that of Ella Fitzgerald. One of the few surviving performers in Purab Ang Gayaki of the Banaras Gharana (lineage), Girija Devi has been the recipient of all of India's significant music awards, including the Padma Shree awarded by the President of India in 1972, the Padma Bhushan in 1989, and the Sangeet Natak Academy Awards of Uttar Pradesh and Delhi. She remains indelibly etched in the hearts of all who have come in contact with her music. 
Abijit Banerjee is a world-renown tabla player. A student of Pandit Gyan Prakash Ghosh, Abhijit is trained in both the North and South Indian traditions. In addition to his touring, he serves as director of Dhwani Academy of Percussion in San Diego.
Mondays, 7:30, J. Dayton Smith Recital Hall, San Diego State University. General Admission $10.
September 27, 2004
Early European Court Music of Spain: Alfonso X Medieval Ensemble; Curt Bouterse, director
October 4, 2004
Music of China: Pui-Yuen Lui, Chu-Yao Liu, and Qi-Chao Liu
October 11, 2004
Music and Dance of South India: Arpana Dance Company. Ramya Harishankar, director
November 1, 2004
Music and Dance of Ghana: Ho-Asogli, with Ewe musician Kwame Degbor
November 22, 2004
Music of Andean South America: Sariri. Francisco Duchicela, director
December 6, 2004
Music and Dance of Java: SDSU Javanese Gamelan. Djoko Walujo, director
Concerts last 45-50 minutes. For directions, parking, and maps, see the SDSU School of Music and Dance website.
Friday Nov 19, 2004 - 8:00PM
The Undisputed Diva of Persian Folk Music, Sima Bina, in concert with Dastan Ensemble
Place: San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, 700 Prospect Street, La Jolla, CA 92037-4291
Sponsored by the Persian Cultural Center
and the Center for World Music
Contact: (619) 374-7335
Tickets: $50, $35, $20, $10 (students)
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
John Thompson is the best known performer of early music for the Chinese silk string zither, the music instrument most favored by Chinese philosophers and aesthetes (in Chinese: qin ["chin"] or guqin ["goo-chin"]). After a college degree in early Western music and graduate studies in ethnomusicology, he began in 1974 to study China's silk-string guqin zither as played at present. Since 1976 he has focused on early repertoire, personally reconstructing over 120 melodies published in 15th and 16th cent. handbooks. In 1992 the National Union of Chinese Musicians invited him to Beijing as the focus of a seminar on reconstructing music from the earliest surviving qin handbook, Shen Qi Mi Pu (1425 CE). While based in Hong Kong as artistic consultant to the Festival of Asian Arts he performed throughout East Asia, and published seven CDs of his musical reconstructions as well as four books of music transcription. Since moving to New York in 2001 he has continued to perform, research and lecture on the qin. His website, www.silkqin.com, is the most comprehensive source of information on the qin.
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Modified: January 10, 2006