[Reader-list] [Announcements] This is Not Fusion: Music by Amit Chaudhuri

[Shuddhabrata Sengupta]

Dear All,

People who enjoy music and literaturem, or both, might find this of 
interest. Today (Thursday, 15th March) at 8:00 pm, India Habitat Centre, 
Auditorium

regards

Shuddha
------------------------------





This Is Not Fusion: Amit Chaudhuri
Experimental Vocal Music
Thursday, 15th March, 8:00 pm,
Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre
Lodhi Road


A concert of this internationally acclaimed musical experiment will take 
place at the Stein Theatre, India Habitat Centre, at 8 pm on 15th March, 
when Amit Chaudhuri will also be in conversation with Shuddhabrata 
Sengupta. The occasion also marks the release the Times Music CD.

"Chaudhuri's 'non-fusion' music creates a striking metaphor for the 
urban sensibility."
Ivan Hewett, Daily Telegraph, London

"Chaudhuri is a wonderful singer-- without any qualification such as 
'considering his distinction as a writer.' There is a sense of calm, a 
simplicity, an inwardness to his singing which deeply appeals to me."
Vikram Seth

"Sublime music...'
Wall Street Journal, Asia

"Universally appealing... both the melodies and the lyrics are slyly 
parodic."
Time Out Bombay

This Is Not Fusion is a project in experimental music conceptualised by 
Amit Chaudhuri, bringing together the raga with jazz, rock, and the 
blues. Besides open, experimental structures, it also has an increasing 
number of songs composed by Chaudhuri in its repertoire. After its huge 
and acclaimed opening at the Gyan Manch, Calcutta on 15 January 2005, 
when both the audience and critics applauded its conceptual and musical 
originality, it travelled to Delhi for the 'Building Bridges: 60 Years 
of the UN' concerts. Then, to great acclaim, it went to Berlin, the 
theatreschauspiele at Frankfurt, the Lille 3000 Festival in France, the 
School of Music, Norwich, the British Museum, London, and to the Palais 
de Bozar in Brussels. Ivan Hewett, one of Britain's foremost music 
critics, said in the Daily Telegraph, London, 'Chaudhuri's 'non-fusion' 
music creates a striking metaphor for the urban sensibility, which today 
is increasingly the condition of everybody, even those who stay at 
home.'

Amit Chaudhuri is one of India's leading writers and novelists. He has 
won major awards in Britain, the US, and India for his fiction, 
including the Commonwealth Writers Prize, the Betty Trask award, the 
Encore Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, and the 
Sahitya Akademi Award. His work is translated into several languages. 
He's been Creative Arts Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford, Leverhulme 
Fellow at Cambridge, Visiting Professor at Columbia University, Samuel 
Fischer Guest Professor at Freie University, Berlin, and now spends part 
of the year at the University of East Anglia as Professor of 
Contemporary Literature. He is also an acclaimed vocalist in the 
Hindustani classical tradition who has performed all over the world, 
with two HMV recordings to his credit, one of which has just been 
released on CD by HMV.


_______________________________________________
announcements mailing list
announcements at sarai.net
https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements