Event

First Annual SADHANA Conference 2010

First Annual SADHANA Conference
Tradition as Innovation South Asian Classical Music in the Next Decade

April 1, 2010

University of California, Berkeley
The Julia Morgan, Berkeley

LECTURE & DISCUSSION Townsend Center, Gabelle Room 1pm-3:30pm

WELCOME
Alexander von Rospatt, Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies

OPENING REMARKS
Srinivas Reddy, UC Berkeley/SADHANA Foundation

CHATUR PANDIT MEMORIAL LECTURE
"South Asian Classical Music in the 20th Century A Practitioner's Perspective"
Pandit Partha Chatterjee

PANEL DISCUSSION
Gautam Tejas Ganeshan, Sangati Center
Prasant Radhakrishnan, VidyA
Sameer Gupta, Namaskar

moderated by Srinivas Reddy and Partha Chatterjee

FILM SCREENING The Julia Morgan, 5pm-7:30pm

"That Which Colors the Mind"
Documentary on the Classical Indian Sitarist Pandit Nikhil Banerjee (a work in progress)

A Conversation with filmmaker Steven Baigel

PERFORMANCE The Julia Morgan, 8pm-10:30pm

INTRODUCTION "Listening to South Asian Classical Music"

SITAR AND TABLA
Srinivas Reddy and Michael Lewis

NEW DIRECTIONS IN INDIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC
Gautam Tejas Ganeshan and Anantha R. Krishnan

VIDYA
Prasant Radhakrishnan, Sameer Gupta and David Ewell