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Festival Opening Friday
Evening September 15
7:30 PM Monterey Conference Center (Serra Ballroom) |
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| Born in Bihar in northern India and raised in Canada, Kiran Ahluwalia has devoted much of her life to the art of Indian vocal music. After receiving her training in classical music in Bombay, Kiran traveled to Hyderabad in the Deccan. There she found Vithal Rao, one of the last living court musicians of the Nizam (King) of Hyderabad. | |
| Rao took on Kiran as his student. Ghazals come from the Islamic tradition, arriving on the sub-continent from Persia in the 14th century. Unlike the physical love depicted in Indian erotic art, ghazals operate on the plane of poetic imagery and metaphor. For over six hundred years the finest poets of what is now India and Pakistan turned their talents to this form and the finest singers and musicians used all their skill and training to interpret the ghazal. Besides the ghazal, Kiran interprets the lively Punjabi folk music from the region of her ancestors. | |
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Koi
tanhai
(7:25 Lo-Fi mp3 format- 1090 kilobytes) Vada (6:56 Lo-Fi mp3 format- 1018 kilobytes) |
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On the Web:
http://www.kiranmusic.com/ |
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