Fri 8/25 @ 7:30-9PM
Hasu Patel lives in Cleveland but she’s known around the world for her mastery of her instrument, the sitar, one of its few female superstars. Born in India, she got her musical education in traditional Indian classical music there and won prizes for her accomplishments. Her distinctive style, called gayaki ang, uses the sitar to approximately the intonations of the human voice.
Patel will be performing at the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Gartner Auditorium in a performance that complements its current exhibit A Splendid Land: Paintings from Royal Udaipur.
“In India, it is currently monsoon season, and the annual rains bring new life and a dramatic transformation of the landscape from arid to lush,” the museum tells us. “For centuries, poets have reveled in describing the feelings of lovers separated and reunited on account of the heavy rains. In paintings, artists from Udaipur celebrated the moods of the rulers during the monsoon, satisfied with the abundance of the kingdom. Trained in Gujarat, a region bordering the kingdom of Mewar where the Udaipur paintings were made, Hasu presents a concert that aurally portrays the various moods of the monsoon season.”
Patel will be joined by her student, sitarist Krish Dewan; tabla player Sudhanshu Deshpande; Tejas Nair, who plays the Indian bowed instrument esraj; and sitarist and visual artist Tom Cvetkovich, who will be playing tanpura, providing the performance’s drone.
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Cleveland, OH 44106