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Show India's leading sitar player to give U concert Debu Chaudhuri, one of India's leading sitar players, will present a concert Nov. 29 at 8 p.m. in the Union Ballroom. Chaudhuri has played concerts of classical Indian music in major cities throughout the world. The concert at the University is sponsored by the Challenge Committee and the Union Programming Committee. Admission Ad-mission is $1 for students and faculty, and $2 for the general public. Since 1948, Chaudhuri has been a disciple of one of India's traditional masters, Ustad Mushtaq Ali Khan. Debu is also a Reader in the Faculty of Music and Fine Arts at Delhi University, and a member of the teaching staff of the Bharatiya Kala Kendra (the Indian Institute of Performing Arts) in New Delhi. Also appearing with Chaudhuri at the University will be Shyamal Bose, considered one of the finest tabla (drums) players in India. Bose performs with noted vocalists and instrumentalists in public concerts, on radio and on recordings. There are two main traditional styles of Indian music, which have developed separately since the sixteenth century. Today, the style of the Carnatic tradition of southern India differs widely from the more familiar Hindustani style of the North. Debu is a disciple of the Hindustani tradition. A typical Hindustani ensemble consists of a sitar, the tabla and the tambura, an instrument which provides a droning sound to complement the sitar. This arrangement is designed to give the sitarist a maximum of musical freedom, with the tabla providing a rhythmic base, and the tambura lending a steady tone or interval from which the soloist is able to relate his complex improvisation to i the raga (melodic stn,M , ' which he is playing. 'rUCture' h The Hindustani raga k H; , into three main parts in L V'ded fully exploring CT framework and interpret 10 mood. The first part.cST''! is mainly comprised of SiJ P ' provisation, accompanied n, T the tambura. Gradua lly the L V enters the raga, finally!'3 la into the main body 0f th ,5 called the "jor," in whi h h tabla and tambura accSpb2:e tabla and tambura accompa ' sitarist The "jor" builds in in tens,ty until it forms the raga'sfin" climactic movement, called "ihala -in which the notes of the , L become so rapid and high-pitched that they often blend with the mhe instruments in intricate eve changing tone patterns, until th raga's end. K v'V v ''A .sVv , a ' x X .' l Debu Chaudhuri plays sitar in concert. |
