Here’s a sound way to spend the hot days. The India Habitat Centre, along with the organisation Sakshi and SIET hosts a workshop on recognition, cognition and appreciation of instrumental music. Named “Sound of Music”, the workshop will be conducted by eminent musicians and aims at giving lay listeners and introduction to musical instruments of India.
Included in the workshops, which will be conducted from this Monday through Thursday, as well as on June 30, are the following categories: wind instruments (flute, shehnai, nagaswaram, clarionet, saxopohne), plucked string instruments (sitar, santoor, sarangi, sarod), bowed instruments (violin, dilruba, esraj, cello) and percussion instruments (drums, tabla, manjira, etc.).
Schedule
June 23: Sudeep Rai (sitar), Shakeel Ahmed (vocal)
June 24: Ajay Prasanna (flute); Ghulam Ali (sarangi)
June 25: Rafiuddin Sabri (tabla); Anees Ahmed (vocal)
June 26: Aleem Khan (violin); Chandrima Majumdar (sarod)
June 30: Abhay Rustum Sopori (santoor)
Venue : India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi
June 23 - 26 June: Amaltas Hall
June 30: Stein Auditorium
Time : 6.30 - 8.30 p.m.
Contact numbers : 011-43663090, 9811233595 (SIET)
