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Posted by on April 20, 19101 at 14:16:52:
Kalakendra presents a unique concert of South Indian classical music, “Ragas on the Saxophone” by Kadri Gopalnath. Ms. Kanyakumari will accompany him on the violin, D.V. Mani on tavil, and Vaikkom Gopalakrishan on ghatam.
When: Saturday, May 5, 2001 7.30PM
Where: First Congregational Church, 1126 SW Park, Portland, Oregon
Tickets: $12 advance, $15 door (Plus service charge). Tickets are available at all FASTIXX outlets. Note that FASTIXX outlets are no longer located in Fred Meyer. As always, they are located at Music Millennium and are now also located in selected Safeway supermarkets. For telephone ticket sales, call (503) 224-8499. Children 3-12 are half price. Children under 3 are not admitted. This concert is free to all 2000-01 Kalakendra members.
About the artists:
Born in a small town in Karnataka, India, Kadri Gopalnath was introduced to classical Indian music by his father (a nadaswaram vidwan). But it was the vibrant tone of the saxophone that he heard in the Mysore Palace that captured Gopalnath’s attention. He spent the next 20 years mastering the nuances of Indian classical music on the foreign sax. He is today widely recognized as one of the very few Indian musicians accomplished at playing the Classical Indian ragas on the saxophone. Gopalnath has participated in the jazz festivals in Prague, Berlin, Paris, and Mexico and has performed at the BBC Promenade Concert in London. For his second Portland performance, Ms. Kanyakumari will again accompany him on the violin. Kanyakumari is an outstanding violinist and much sought after accompanist for many master musicians of the Carnatic style. In 1988, she set a record by playing the violin nonstop for 29 hours. Kanyakumari recently conducted an orchestra in Chennai, India, with 25 violinists playing in unison.