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DePauw Performing Arts Series presents classical Indian music
The DePauw Performing Arts Series will present a concert of classical Indian music at 7:30 p.m. Monday in Thompson Recital Hall in the Green Center for the Performing Arts.
Performed by Ustad Shahadat Hossain Khan, Tanim Hayat Khan and Ustad Yousuf Ali Khan on sarod and table, this event brings world music to Greencastle.
Each member of the ensemble hails from a long lineage rich in family musicianship and has studied with masters on their respective instruments. Ustad Shahadat Hossain Khan, currently the most prominent sarod player from Bangladesh, tours worldwide and performs regularly with the London-based Grand Union Orchestra. He is the son of Ustad Abed Hossain Khan, and his uncle and grandfather are also famous musicians in the Bangladesh sarod tradition. The sarod is a melodic string instrument used in classical Indian music whose name is derived from a Persian word meaning “beautiful sound.”
Joining Khan on tabla, the expressive “talking” dual hand drums, is Ustad Yousuf Ali Khan, who is also a longtime member of the Grand Union Orchestra and faculty member at the Leicestershire School of Music in England.
Rounding out the musical trio is Tanim Hayat Khan, a sarod player and student of Ustad Shahadat Hossain Khan, and one of the finest musicians of a younger generation.
The Monday concert is free and open to the public. Doors open at 7 p.m. For more information visit the DePauw website or contact Ron Dye at rdye@depauw.edu.