WEBVTT 00:01:01.890 --> 00:01:02.206 - show. 00:13:01.250 --> 00:13:10.327 - Thanks for coming here and seeing us. This is the first time I'm performing here, and it's a great pleasure 00:13:10.327 --> 00:13:19.404 - playing here. My name is Prasanna, and that is Srinivas Krishnan on tabla and Satish Pathakotta on kanjira. 00:13:19.404 --> 00:13:28.061 - Thank you. The first piece was a composition of Muttaswami Dikshitar called Gajanana Yutam in the raga 00:13:28.061 --> 00:13:30.078 - Chakravakam and was set 00:13:30.178 --> 00:13:38.530 - to Adi Thala, or the eight-beat cycle. Second piece was one of probably the three most funkiest compositions 00:13:38.530 --> 00:13:46.192 - in Indian music. And it's in the raga called Swararanjani, a very rare raga. And it's a composition 00:13:46.192 --> 00:13:48.414 - of Ramnathapuram, Srinivasa. 00:26:58.306 --> 00:27:07.650 - a sober piece in the raga Jaganmohini. I don't know why it got funked up but that's okay. We all get 00:27:07.650 --> 00:27:17.087 - excited. Anyway, the next piece I'm playing is a composition of Saint Thyagaraja in the raga Hindolam 00:27:17.087 --> 00:27:20.510 - which is a pentatonic raga which has 00:27:29.954 --> 00:27:38.915 - up and coming down and I would play an alapna of the raga a little bit before we play the composition 00:27:38.915 --> 00:27:41.726 - and continue the improvisation. 00:41:50.946 --> 00:42:18.846 - We will now start the second half of the concert immediately. The first part that you just heard featured music 00:42:20.034 --> 00:42:29.156 - from South India, South Indian classical music. What you will be hearing now in the second half of the 00:42:29.156 --> 00:42:38.100 - recital would feature a combination of instruments, true global music. We have taken music primarily 00:42:38.100 --> 00:42:47.222 - from India, but used a lot of instrumentation from various parts of the world, the Caribbean, European 00:42:47.222 --> 00:42:49.790 - tradition, Indian tradition. 00:42:50.242 --> 00:42:58.776 - Members of a string quartet, we have a marimba. So we hope you like the second half of this concert. 00:42:58.776 --> 00:43:07.394 - As people come in, I will introduce each member of the ensemble. So I'd like to call upon the members 00:43:07.394 --> 00:43:15.844 - of the Global Rhythms Ensemble. Carlos Rubio Alberto Davila on the violin. He's a member of Quartet 00:43:15.844 --> 00:43:19.646 - of America, a string quartet from Venezuela. 00:43:29.218 --> 00:43:39.643 - On the violin also is Marion Peraza from Cuarteto America, Venezuela. Thank you. Both of them are currently 00:43:39.643 --> 00:43:49.584 - in residence at Miami University in Ohio and they've been part of Global Rhythms for this entire year. 00:43:49.584 --> 00:43:57.982 - On the viola, the viola, sorry of my Indian accent, on the viola we have Julia Hammond 00:44:04.898 --> 00:44:23.437 - On the cello, we have Ezra Wimberley. On the marimba, we have Janava Conaway-Benison. On the steel pan, 00:44:23.437 --> 00:44:33.598 - we have Pat Hearnley. On the flute, we have Tony Barnes. 00:44:45.026 --> 00:44:51.483 - Before I call upon the three other senior artists, I want to mention something about the first artist 00:44:51.483 --> 00:44:58.192 - whom I will call upon. You just heard a wonderful Kanjira player over here, Satish Pathakota from Austin, 00:44:58.192 --> 00:45:04.902 - and he's absolutely fabulous. He's been one of the key performers for all our shows all over the country. 00:45:04.902 --> 00:45:11.359 - I'd like to welcome him and thank him sincerely from the bottom of my heart for all his good work for 00:45:11.359 --> 00:45:14.334 - the ensemble. Satish Pathakota on the Kanjira. 00:45:27.586 --> 00:45:35.132 - The second guest artist, many of you may have seen him here in the Bloomington area years ago, is a 00:45:35.132 --> 00:45:42.905 - superb trombone player from Puerto Rico. And now he's, in fact he did his education even over here and 00:45:42.905 --> 00:45:48.414 - he's a faculty at Miami University. Jaime Morales Matos on the trombone. 00:45:57.250 --> 00:46:03.908 - Jaime has done all the big gigs. His name is not on the program, but he's performed with the best. 00:46:03.908 --> 00:46:10.701 - I mean, Tira Ponte, everybody. He's amazing. And before we call our star tonight, he would be coming 00:46:10.701 --> 00:46:17.897 - in the second piece. But we have the first piece, which we would start immediately, which is a composition 00:46:17.897 --> 00:46:23.614 - of Tiagaraja. It's a composition called Sadamathim. It's a very popular composition. 00:49:48.034 --> 00:49:56.713 - In India, when musicians get together in a gig, imagine this entire room of musicians, and all of us 00:49:56.713 --> 00:50:05.307 - are singing, performing, and doing something or the other. There would be pin drop silence when one 00:50:05.307 --> 00:50:14.244 - individual enters. That individual, we have been very fortunate to bring him here today to Bloomington. 00:50:14.244 --> 00:50:16.478 - He has been gifted with a 00:50:16.674 --> 00:50:26.821 - with a very, very unique sense of sound, melody, rhythm. And above all, I think here is a musician whom 00:50:26.821 --> 00:50:36.870 - I always felt who played first with his heart, and then with his mind, and then with his fingers. Very 00:50:36.870 --> 00:50:46.334 - rarely do you come across musicians like this. I'm honored, very honored that we could celebrate 00:50:47.586 --> 00:50:54.250 - the coming of the millennium. I've been performing at Lotus from the year it began. But this year is 00:50:54.250 --> 00:51:00.980 - very, very, very special to me. I want to thank Lee for working out my details because I was in India 00:51:00.980 --> 00:51:07.578 - all along. He was so nice, he and Luan. And we have made it possible for the entire Lotus committee 00:51:07.578 --> 00:51:14.176 - to have India's best percussionist. Let's give a standing ovation to Sri Umayalapuram Shivaraman on 00:51:14.176 --> 00:51:15.166 - the Mridangam.