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last updated February 15, 2006 9:45 PM
Stanford students are bombarded on all sides with events to attend, but this week's Pan-Asian Music Festival presents a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to have some of the best musicians in the world on campus performing and explaining what's behind their music," says junior Vivek Agrawal, who volunteered to help organize the festival.
Tonight students can enjoy a lecture and performance of Hindustani Classical Music featuring Kartik Seshadri at 7:30 p.m. in Cambell Recital Hall for free. Friday's sitar concert — with a pre-concert talk at 6:45 p.m. and the performance at 8:00 p.m. — takes place in Dinkelspiel Auditorium for $38 to $42 for general admission and $19 to $21 for students.
On Saturday, Sanjay Subrahmanyam will present "Morning Ragas," a performance of his carnatic classical vocal music at 9:00 a.m. in Dinkelspiel, followed by a reception. General admission is $15 and student admission will be $5. Finally, Saturday night brings the North American premiere of composer Naresh Sohal's "Songs of the Five Rivers." The Music Department and the Center for Buddhist Studies and Asian Religions & Cultures are co-sponsoring this week of music.
Agrawal calls this festival a way to "make the Stanford campus more aware of South Asian music," which he describes as "very much an eye-opening experience."
Junior Deepa Alagesan, who attended Tuesday's tribute to renowned Bollywood composer A.R. Rahman, agrees.
"It's really great to explore this music on campus in ways that we might otherwise not be able to," she says. "After going to one event, it made me want to go to others in the series."
"It was amazing that so many people from the outside community were here to see him speak," Alagesan said on the audience at the Rahman tribute. "It's really a testament to globalization and how music that was once part of only Indian culture is spreading. People all over the world are interested in hearing this music, and someone from India is having this impact on the world. And he's working on the 'Lord of the Rings' musical, which is pretty cool."
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