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Calendar of Events
A special world music event
sponsored by Caffe Vivaldi
Saturday April 28,2007 8PM
Featuring, India's foremost sitar master:
Ustad Shahid Parvez
Recipient of the prestigious
"Sangeet
Natak Akademi Award" of
2006.
India's highest national recognition given to practicing artistes.
$25/
Buy Tickets Now
(Front row $35/-
seats sold out)
The Philip
Coltoff Center
219,
Sullivan Street, NYC
(Between Bleecker & W3rd Sts)
“Vilayat Khan's principle disciples include his brother Imrat Khan and son Shujaat Khan, Kashinath Mukherjee
(he is the late film-maker Hrishikesh Mukherjee's brother), Kalyani Roy from Kolkata, and Arvind Parekh from Mumbai.
But the liquid grace and beauty of his style is best represented today by Shahid Parvez,
not a direct disciple but from the same lineage of musicians."
- Partho Datta
( Prof Datta is a musicologist and a Reader in History, Delhi University)
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Crossing borders of perception: Reflections on listening to Shahid Parvez
- Dr. Salman Ansari
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Saturday May 19, 2007
Ustad Khansahib Rais Khan
with Farhan Khan
New York
Concert: Saturday May 19, 2007
Concert
Tickets for Ustad Rais Khan
will be available online from May 1, 2007
For advance reservation write to:
ishrat@virsaonline.com
(New York & Washington venues to be announced)
After his sold out concert at The Kennedy Center,
Washington D.C, -
produced by Virsa, in March 2001,
Ustad Rais Khan returns to North America in Spring 2007
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June 2007
Tina Sani
Virsa has presented Tina Sani twice in New York in the past
two years.
Her fans have complained that the venue for the events was too small
for all the lovers of Ghazals who wanted to attend the Mehfils.
This year, we are pleased to announce that the venues being selected
would be able to accommodate all her fans.
Details to follow.
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Farid Ayaz Qawwal & Brothers
4th US National Tour
March/April 2008
Sample Videos
produced by Ishrat
Ansari fro Virsa Pakistan
Qawwali
WNYC RADIO STUDIO 360
Qawwali - It's a bridge between the human and the divine.
Ishrat
Ansari, of the Pakistani cultural organization Virsa,
and Robert Browning of the
World Music Institute
talk about the transporting sound of the devotional folk
music of the Sufi Muslims.
(Producer by Jocelyn Gonzales.)
WNYC - New
Sounds: Program #2297 (June 17, 2004)
... On this
edition of New Sounds, hear the Qawwali music of Farid Ayaz Qawwal.
One of the leading performers of the ..
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Recent Events:
Saturday March 17, 2007,
8PM
World Music Institute
in association with
Virsa Pakistan & NYU
Skirball Center
Present
Sufi Songs and
Ghazals of Pakistan
Featuring
Shafqat Ali Khan
(Son of Ustad
Salamat Ali Khan)
December 2005
Special Event
Soi International Group Presentation
in association with Virsa Pakistan
Yash Paul Soi
Proudly Presents
Ustad Zakir Hussain in Concert
with Anup Jalota
A Benefit Concert for
The Earthquake Victims of
Pakistan and India