Following sold-out performances two years ago, Asia Society is delighted to welcome back the critically acclaimed and popular Kinsmen/Svajanam for a much-anticipated US tour. Two masters of the alto saxophone (above left)—Kadri Gopalnath, a living legend of South Indian Carnatic music, and Rudresh Mahanthappa, a fiercely innovative Indian American jazz musician—present a cross-cultural, intergenerational collaborative suite commissioned by the Asia Society. Together, they fuse a myriad of traditional and contemporary influences to create a ground-breaking artistic vision. The two are joined by their co-led Dakshina Ensemble (above right) with A. Kanyakumari (violin), Rez Abbasi (guitar/sitar-guitar), Carlo de Rosa (bass), Poovalur Srinivasan (mridangam-barrel drum), and Royal Hartigan (drum-set).
Performance excerpts and interview with Rudresh Mahanthappa
2007 TOUR DATES
Saturday, November 10, 7:30 pm
Freer and Sackler Galleries
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian MRC 707
P.O. Box 37012
Washington, DC 20013-7012 www.asia.si.edu
202-633-4880
Sunday, November 11, 7:00 pm
Wexner Center for the Arts
Ohio State University
1871 North High Street
Columbus, OH 43210-1393 www.wexarts.org
614-292-3535
Thursday, November 15, 7:00 pm
Charles B. Wang Center
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794 www.sunysb.edu/sb/wang/
631-632-4400
Friday, November 16, 8:00 pm
Walker Art Center
1750 Hennepin
Minneapolis, MN 55403 www.walkerart.org
612-375-7600
Saturday, November 17, 8:00 pm
India Community Center
2171 Monroe-Wayne County Line Road
Macedon, NY 14502 (Rochester) www.icor.org/
585-425-3891
Sunday, November 18, 4:00 pm
Fine Arts Center
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Room 16 Curry Hicks
Amherst, MA 01003 www.umass.edu/fac/
413-545-2511
The U.S. tour of Kinsmen/Svajanam is produced by Asia Society. This program is funded in part by the New York State Music Fund, established by the New York Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. Recording of Kinsmen/Svajanam is funded in part by Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust and Aaron Copland Fund. Kinsmen/Svajanam is commissioned by Asia Society, with support from Multi-Arts Production Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the Rockefeller Foundation. Major support for performances at Asia Society is provided by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Helen and Will Little Endowment for Performing Arts. Additional support provided by New York State Council for the Arts.
