"Pandit Pran Nath 90th Birthday Memorial Tribute Concert" Performance

MELA Foundation

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Concert of Pre-recorded Tapes of Pandit Pran Nath performing Evening Ragas with live commentary by La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela

In honor of Pandit Pran Nath's 90th Birthday and in celebration of his extraordinary life and work, MELA Foundation is presenting a concert of tapes of Pandit Pran Nath performing Evening Ragas. The concert is curated by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela, who will present commentary on the music during the event. The concert will continue for several hours.

Pandit Pran Nath, who passed away on June 13, 1996, virtually introduced the vocal tradition of North Indian classical music to the West in 1970. He Studied for twenty years as a disciple of Ustad Abdul Wahid Khan, the foremost master of the Kirana gharana. Pran Nath's 1971 morning performance at Town Hall, New York City, was the first concert of morning ragas to be presented in the U.S. Subsequently, he introduced and elaborated to Western audiences the concept of performing ragas at the proper time of day by scheduling entire series of concerts at special hours. Many students and professional musicians came to him in America to learn about the vast system of raga and to improve their musicianship. In 1972, Pran Nath established his own school in New York City under the direction of his disciples La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela, the Kirana Center for Indian Classical Music, now a project of MELA Foundation. Over the years he performed hundreds of concerts in the West, scores of them in New York City, and in Fall 1993, he inaugurated the MELA Foundation Dream House with three Raga Cycle concerts. He continued to perform here annually during his remaining years and on May 12 and 17, 1996, his two concerts of Afternoon and Evening Ragas in the Dream House were his last public performances.

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November 01, 2008 from 19:00

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