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Kabir Cultural Centre collection ➔ [Poster for a performance of North Meets South at Grande Bibliotheque, Montreal, Canada]

Item
Identifier:
2023_01_04_006
Repository
Repository Web Site
https://www.centrekabir.com/en/
Repository Identifier
North Meets South 2007
Date
November 24 2007;Date(s) of creation
Creator
Extent
1 poster
Format
ephemera
Description
Poster advertising a performance of North Meets South at Grande Bibliotheque, Montreal, Canada. Features Hindustani vocals by Dr. Vinay Bhide, carnatic vocals by Dr. K.S. Narasiah, Vineet Vyas on the tabla, Dr. Satish Salgar on the harmonium, Anjana Srinivasan on the violin, and Saravanan Sundararajan on the mridangam. Dr. Vinay Bhide is a Hindustani classical vocalist. He was a student of Ustad Bade Ghulamali Khan of the Patiala Gharana (school). He holds a PhD in physics and is an Adjunct Research Professor in the Music Department at Carleton University in Ottawa.. Dr. K.S. Narasiah is Carnatic vocalist. Vineet Vyas is a tabla player. He was born in Nova Scotia, Canada and was introduced to Hindustani classical music at the age of 5. He is the grandson of the classical vocalist Pandit Brahmanand Vyas and the disciple of tabla maestro Pandit Kishan Maharaj. He holds an MFA in World Percussion from the California Institute of the Arts. Dr. Satish Salgar is a harmonium player. Anjana Srinivasan is a violinist from Montreal. As a teenager, she studied Carnatic violin in India. She is also a faculty lecturer in the Family Medicine department of McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Saravanan Sundararajan is a mridangam player and bharatanatyam dancer. He is a member of the Kala Bharati dance school.
Location
Canada;Quebec;Montreal
Language
English
Notes
"For the first time in Montreal, Kabir Cultural Centre brings to all music lovers a combination of the North Indian and South Indian traditions of classical vocal music. Dr. Bhide and Dr. Narasiah, accompanied by highly talented support musicians, will enthral [sic] the audience by their individual and combined performances in Hindustani and Carnatic style." -Kabir Cultural Centre "Dr. Vinay Bhide studied vocal classical singing for fifteen years with Pandit Eknath Kulkarni, a disciple of late Ustad Bade Ghulamali Khan, the doyen of Patiala Gharana. He went to France in 1972, where he lived for ten years as a researcher and earned a PhD in Physics. While there, he gave recitals and taught Indian music at the Conservatory of Paris. He also travelled to perform in Belgium, Holland, and Switzerland. Since moving to Canada in 1996, Vinayji has continued to perform and teach music in Canada and US. He is an Adjunct Research Professor at the Music Department, Carleton University in Ottawa." -https://smallworldmusic.com/shows/pandit-partho-sarothy-vidushi-shruti-sadolikar/. "Vineet Vyas is one of Canada’s most dynamic musical talents. He is a disciple of the legendary Tabla maestro, Pandit Kishan Maharaj. Born and raised in Nova Scotia Vineet comes from a family of traditional musicians from India: his grandfather Pandit Brahmanand Vyas, was a renowned vocalist and initiated him into Hindustani classical music at the age of five." -https://www.vineetvyas.com/about/. "Srinivasan's upbringing is much like my own. Both of us were born in Montreal, with our parents hailing from India. Neither of us grew up watching Bollywood movies or performing Bollywood dances. As popular as the genre is, that was not part of our South Indian heritage. Both of us had direct ties to the classical art forms of the region through our mothers, who are teachers in our community. That's how Srinivasan learned South Indian classical, or Carnatic, music — a style that is centuries old, with a variety of scales or melodies known as ragas and beats or talas." -https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/classical-indian-arts-dance-music-community-1.6444012. "Since his Ranga Pravesh in 1992, Saravanan has been involved in various activities at Kala Bharati. As a male member of La Troupe, he has given several performances in Canada as well as in India including segments for dance films produced in Montreal. He has taken part in Window on the World project. As a teacher of Bharata Natya in the dance school, his initiative in seeing the Kala Bharati tradition continue and flourish, has enabled him to contribute to the various areas of work related to pedagogy and training. His music training as a Mridangam player has been a great asset in this task." -http://kalabharati.ca/legacy/pages/school/rangapravesh.html. The tabla is a pair of single-headed hand drums from the Indian subcontinent. The small, conical righthand drum is called the dayan and is used to created treble or tonal sounds. The larger, kettledrum-like lefthand drum is called the baya and is used for producing bass. The tabla owes its unique sound to the coat of syahi "tuning paste" applied to specific areas on the skin of each drum. The harmonium is a type of pump organ. This instrument generates sound by passing air over a vibrating metal reed inside of a frame. The air pressure in a harmonium is supplied by a hand pump and the intonation is controlled via a keyboard. The harmonium is an important instrument in many genres of Indian, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi music. The mridangam is a long, barrel-shapped drum. It is the primary rhythmic accompaniment in a Carnatic music ensemble and is widely believed to be the precursor of the tabla. Jugalbandhi is a term used to in South Asian classical arts to describe a duet of two solo musicians. *Date listed refers to date of performance.
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Subject Headings - Library of Congress
Hindustani music [http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85088852];Carnatic music [http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85088861];Tabla players [http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87006038];Reed organists [http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90004282];Violinists [http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143635];Mridanga players [http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94007650];Posters [http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001723]