Led by acclaimed Brooklyn-based alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa, the Indo-Pak Coalition feat. Rez Abbasi and Dan Weiss fuses jazz with improvised musical forms of South Asia.
Concert entry included with Museum admission; suggested donation $10 for adults, $6 for seniors and students. Space is limited, and advance ticket purchase for general admission is recommended viawww.museumtix.com.
Free admission and entrance to the concert available to BM and WBGO members on a first-come, first-served basis. WBGO is the Exclusive Radio Partner for this series.
When: Thursday, August 18, 2011
Time: 7 p.m.
Where: Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Pavilion, 1st Floor, Brooklyn, New York.
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Globe-trotting percussion ensemble Talavya (formerly Tabla Ecstasy) bring the Indian hand-drums tabla to the center stage in new avatar, distilling its age-old spirit and practice into a high-energy, highly accessible evening that reveals the instrument’s true joys.
Composed by Indian music maestro Pandit Divyang Vakil, the quartet moves between rousing peaks and smooth meditative passages, expressing the various emotions of tabla. Played with the passion and power of a rock drum solo along with the sophistication and subtlety of a classical performance, Talavya is contemporary in feel, while full of the richness of classical tabla. It’s not uncommon to catch audience members—from teenage hipsters to cosmopolitan professionals—bopping along to the pulse, or in tears or in awe after a perfo ... 
Vishwas Shirgaonkar received his initial musical training from Pandit Anant Kogaje and Pandit Yeshwantbua Joshi, both stalwarts of the Gwalior Gharana. Subsequently, Vishwas was initiated into the Gayaki of the Jaipur Gharana by late Pandit Anandrao Limaye. He also trained under the late Pandit Ratnakar Pai.Vishwas maintains the specialty and the purity of the Jaipur Gharana Gayaki in its bandish, vistar, laya-play, and its complex taan patterns.
When: Sep 17 2011, 2011
Time: 7:30PM to 9:30PM
Where: Chhandayan Center for Indian Music ,
4 West 43rd Street , Suite 618 , New York , 10036
Admission :$16,$20
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On October 4th, the Talea Ensemble will present their first big concert of the season featuring Pierre Boulez’s classic Le marteau sans maître and Georges Aperghis’ wild, Triangle Carré.
Pierre Boulez’s Le marteau sans maître (The Hammer Without a Master, 1955) is the work that established the composer’s reputation as a leading figure of the European postwar avant-garde.
René Char’s surrealist poetry, like that of Mallarmé’s that Boulez went on to set in future years, serves as the bridge between the worlds of Boulez’s arcane, severe harmonic vocabulary and the cool sensuality of his instrumental writing.
Georges Aperghis’ Triangle Carré (1989), written three decades later, takes an entirely different approach to exoticism. The friction of culture and timbre are primary areas of explorati ... 
Come and join Camerata Virtuosi New Jersey (CVNJ) in celebrating pianist Choong-Mo Kang’s ground-breaking appointment as a professor of piano at the Juilliard School. He will be the first Asian pianist to hold the position.
Pianist Choong-Mo Kang has captured audiences throughout the world with his poetic intensity and confident simplicity of talent in his performances. Born in South Korea, Mr. Kang was the prizewinner of numerous international competitions including Dong-A Competition in Korea, Frinna Awerbuch International Piano Competition, Louise D. McMahan Competition, and Washington International Competition. Kang has won plaudits from critics around the world for his acclaimed performances with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, and he has recei ... 
On classics like Paul Simon’s Graceland and his own Grammy-winning Grazing in the Grass, South African singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Hugh Masekela has remained a consistently innovative leader in world music fusion, renowned for a vibrant sound that touches on everything from jazz and pop to R&B, disco and Afro-pop.Rolling Stone calls Masekela “one of the most thrilling live performers around.”
When: Saturday, February 25, 2012
Time: 7:30 pm
Where: Victoria Theater, NJPAC, NJ
Ticket: $44, $48, $53, $58
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