July 30, 2022
Chennai, India
Performance of Shirish Korde's Svara Yantra - Violin Concerto
Featuring Priyanka Ventakesh, Solo violinist
Conductor: Alvin Arumugam
With musicians from India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Thailand, Japan, Kazakhstan, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States.
April 20-23 and 27-30, 2023
Luth Concert Hall, Prior Performing Arts Center, College of the Holy Cross
Featuring Lito Messini, soprano
Suggested by the novel Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee, with poems by Robert Bly
Music by Shirish Korde
Libretto and direction by Lynn Kremer
A remounting of Lynn Kremer and Shirish Korde’s extraordinary music-theatre piece, previously produced at Holy Cross in 1991 and 1998. Rasa is a large-scale multi-media production yet, as The American Record Guide has written, it is “remarkable in its beauty and subtlety . . . of considerable musical richness.” A young woman escapes her native India for America after her fiancé is killed, relocating first in Manhattan, then in the heartland, and each time reinventing her identity. This is a story of startling metamorphoses and unexpected resurrections.
The Individual and the Collective
Thursday, March 30, 2023
Boroughs Theatre
An evening of stimulating discussion and performance
Jan Müller-Szeraws, cello
Amit Kavthekar, tabla
Urmila Mallick, Odissi dance
Anusvara (cello)
Lalit (cello, tabla & vibraphone)
Ka (Odissi dancer)
