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World Music Institute Presents Zakir Hussain |
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Created On: Wednesday, 02 April 2008
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 Zakir Hussain Hussain, the premier tabla player of his generation, directs these drumming virtuosos from India’s classical and folk traditions. The program will feature tabla solos and duets, sitar and sarangi, ensemble collaborations and a segment with Meitei Pung Cholom, the dancing drummers of Manipur. Ustad Saltan Khan, legendary sarangi (lute) player, will make a special appearance. See below for ticket information.
Zakir Hussain’s Masters include his brother Fazal Qureshi (tabla, kanjira - tambourine), who has performed in India and abroad both as a soloist and accompanist to classical instrumentalists, vocalists and dancers his youngest brother Taufiq Qureshi, a percussionist and composer Niladri Kumar, one of India's young sitar virtuosos Abbos Kosimov (doyra - frame drum), “Honored Artist of Uzbekistan” who has recently worked with Stevie Wonder and Giovanni Hidalgo Ram Kishan (nagada - kettledrums), who received the prestigious Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for his contribution to the folk music of Rajasthan Dilshad Khan (sarangi), nephew of Ustad Sultan Khan Vijay Chauhan (folk drums), one of the foremost exponents of the dholki, the premier folk percussion instrument of Maharashtra Meitei Pung Cholom , the troupe renowned for its acrobatic choreography and special guest Ustad Sultan Khan, India's famed sarangi player who has been acclaimed for his extraordinary technical and melodic control over this difficult stringed instrument.
Zakir Hussain honors include the title of Padma Bhushan (2002) the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (1991) the National Heritage Fellowship (1999) the Kalidas Samman Award (2006) the Bay Area Isadora Duncan Award (1998-99) and a Grammy (1991) for Best World Music Album for Planet Drum. In the past two years he was a visiting professor at Princeton University and Stanford University.
Tickets range from $25, $35 to $45 students with a college ID get in for $15. Box office (212) 840-2824 Information/tickets (212) 545-7536 worldmusicinstitute.org.
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