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SUNDAY 16 AUGUST 2009
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Prom 41: Indian Voices Day – Khyal and Kerala
- Date Sunday 16 August 2009
- Time 10.30am - c1.30pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £8 - £17.50 price band E or Prom for £5
- Broadcast Live on BBC Radio 3. Available as audio on demand for the following week.
- This programme is no longer available.
Our Proms Indian Voices day begins with a concert of north Indian classical khyal singing, featuring Pandit Ram Narayan, the greatest living sarangi (short-necked fiddle) player; Manjiri Asnare Kelkar, the rising star of the Jaipur–Gwalior khyal school; the two Mishra brothers, the foremost exponents of the virtuoso Varanasi vocal style; and Asima, an iconoclastic, boundary-breaking young ensemble from Kerala.
There will be one interval
Read programme notes about this Prom- Asima (first set)
- Processional chant - Ganesh Vandana, from Sama Veda
- Pandit Ram Narayan
- Morning Raaga
- 1) Raag Bhatiyou - a teental (a medium fast rhythmic composition in 16 beats)
- 2) Raag Mishra Bhairavi a composition in 16 beats.
- Manjiri Asnare Kelkar
- 1) 2 traditional compositions in Raga Lalita Gauri - first a medium tempo teental [16 beats cycle] and then a fast tempo teental
- 2) A song composed by one of India's late great Maestros - Master Krishnarao
- interval
- Pandits Rajan and Sajan Mishra
- 1) Raag Lalit: Vilambit Ektal (text about Lord Krishna)
- 2) Fast composition in Ektal about Lord Krishna's flute playing
- 3) Composition in Raaga Bhairvi about the Goddess Durga (the Goddess of Power)
- Asima (second set)
- 1) Lullaby for a royal birth
- 2) Layam
- 3) Thillana
- Pandit Ram Narayan sarangi
- Manjiri Asnare Kelkar khyal singer
- Pandits Rajan and Sajan Mishra khyal singers
- Asima
- with
- Aruna Narayan sarangi
- Akbar Latif tabla
- Babar Latif tabla
- Sudhir Nayak harmonium
Like this Prom? Try these:
2.00pm Indian Voices in the Park Free performances
of folk music and dance from Rajasthan (including ghoomer dance)
and Gujarat (including ras and garba dances). Also featuring the
vocal fusion ensemble Asima, and incorporating:
2.00pm Proms Family Orchestra and Chorus Participate in the Proms Bollywood Family Orchestra and Chorus and learn how to dance Bollywood style!
5.45pm Proms Literary Festival
Prize-winning author Jamila Gavin and 'Binglish' theatre director Jatinder Verma join Rana Mitter to explore great Bollywood stories.
Edited version broadcast on Radio 3 during tonight's interval.
Prom 42: Indian Voices Day – Bollywood
- Date Sunday 16 August 2009
- Time 7.30pm - c10.00pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £7 - £35 price band A or Prom for £5
- Broadcast Live on BBC Radio 3. Available as audio on demand for the following week.
- This programme is no longer available.
Following the afternoon of free music-making and dance at Indian Voices in the Park, Kensington Gardens, our Proms Indian Voices celebration culminates in an all-singing, all-dancing Bollywood extravaganza fronted by the popular Indian TV talent show host and award-winning singer Shaan and his band, plus the Bollywood moves of Honey's Dance Academy.
- There will be one interval
- Shaan vocalist
- The Groove
- Honey's Dance Academy
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