INDIAN FINE ARTS ACADEMY OF SAN DIEGOpresents

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David and Dorothea Garfield TheaterJewish Community Center, LA Jolla 92037

Sunday 18 - Sunday 25 • MARCH, 2018

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Aler 858-775-5473 | Anantha 619-873-5206 | Banu 520-591-2940 | Geetha 858-334-3765 | Kalpana 858-761-1839 | Kasturi 760-696-3377 Lakshminarayana 619-427-1086 | Narayanan 858-592-4133 | Neha 858-231-6484 | Rekha 858-437-3358 | Revathi 858-793-7163 | Shashi M 619-562-0814

Shashi P 858-776-1956 | Shekar 858-442-1586 | Shri 858-922-2784 | Suman 858-349-8293 | Tadimeti 858-792-7953 | Venkatachalam 858-232-6459

Date Event # Event info Duration Accompanying Artists Event Title

03.1

8.2

018

Sunday Prefestival

Celebrations

Prefestival Celebrations

9484 Black Mountain Rd. Ste. A/B, San Diego, CA 92126

3:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Balasaraswati Centenary - In conversation with Balasaraswati’s Art in Music and Dance by Douglas Knight. Geetha Bennett - How to Appreciate Indian Classical Music; Kruthi Bhat (Vocal); Sankar Subramaniam (Violin); Raamkumar Balamurthi (Mridangam) Padam and Javali - Veena Dhanammal Tradition - By Prof. B. Balasubrahmaniyan; Sankar Subramaniam (Violin); Raamkumar Balamurthi (Mridangam)

Prefestival Celebration Prefestival Dinner 7:00 PM -

8:00 PM Prefestival Dinner

03.19.2018

Monday

Event 1A Lecture demonstration 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Lecture by Dr. Sriram Parasuram

Vocal aesthetics: Carnatic and Hindustani systems

Event 1B Carnatic and Hindustani Music and Dance

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Students of Sangeetha Seva Rathna C.M. Venkatachalam, Rekha Nandakumar, Srividya Saishankar, Shobha Nagabhushan, Subbu Iyer; Dancers: Aler Krishnan, Suman Nayak, Rohini Herur, Sufi Raina, Neha Patel and their students; Accompaniments: Raamkumar Balamurthi (mRdangam), Prabhu Sriram (mRdangam), Miles Shrewsbery (Tabla), Aishwarya Raman (naTTuvAngam), Tejas Srinivasan (Violin), Agastya Sridharan (Flute)

Paying tribute to T. Balasaraswati,

M.L. Vasanthakumari and

Chitraveena Ravikiran

03.20.2018

Tuesday

Event 2A Lecture Demonstration 6:30 PM - 7:15PM

LecDem by Prof. Trichy Sankaran

Popularizing Pudukkottai style

Event 2B Hindustani and Carnatic Jugalbandhi

7:30 PM - 9:45 PM

Sriram Parasuram (Vocal) Akkarai Subbulakshmi (Violin) Mannargudi Easwaran (Mridangam)

Arup Chattopadhyay (Tabla)

Uttar-Daksin Sangama Hindustani and Carnatic

Jugalbandhi

03.21.2018

Wednesday

Event 3A Lecture Demonstration 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

LecDem by Dr. Gowri Ramnarayan

Bala: Artist Supreme

Event 3B Bharathanatyam 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Narthaki Nataraj (Bharathanatyam) Thirunangai Sakthi Bhaskar (Nattuvangam) Akshay Padmanabhan (Vocal)

Kaushik Champakesan (Vocal) Sujith S Naik (Flute) Thiruvalaputhur G.R. Senthilkumar (Mridangam)

Narthaki Nataraj's Colours of Dance:

Enchanting Evening

03.2

2.2

018

Thurs

day

Event 4A Lecture Demonstration 6:30 PM - 7:15 PM

LecDem by Guru Karaikudi Mani

Importance of Laya with Modern Compositions

Event 4B Bharathanatyam 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Rajeshwari Sainath's Group Production Rajeswari Sainath Vyshnavie Yagnesh S.Varsha Jayalakshmi

Narayanan Shreya Vishwani Meenakshi Murali

NRITHYA KADHAMBAM Dynamic Medley in

Telugu, Sanskrit, Tamil and Marathi Guru Karaikudi Mani's

Unique Varnam

03.23.2018

Friday

Event 5A Kathak 6:30 PM - 7:45 PM

Sujata Banerjee and Company Sujata Banerjee Sonia Chandaria Deepa Devasena Gurmeet Marhas Rupal

Gandhi Jaina Modasia Mithun Raj Gill

Raga Ranga Ravi Taranga A Kathak Extravaganza

Event 5BBharat Ratna Ravi Shankar Birthday

Celebration Ravi Shankar Quartet (Hindustani Instrumental)

8:15 PM - 10:00 PM

Gaurav Mazumdar (Sitar), Barry Philips (Cello), Ashwani Shankar (Shehnai) and Arup Chattopadhyay (Tabla)

Ravi Shankar Quartet (Hindustani Instrumental)

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INDIAN FINE ARTS ACADEMY OF SAN DIEGOpresents

http://www.indianfinearts.org

David and Dorothea Garfield TheaterJewish Community Center, LA Jolla 92037

Sunday 18 - Sunday 25 • MARCH, 2018

Please become a Subscription Plus Patron to save money and prefererred seating for ticketed events

Support Provided by:

visit www.indianfineartsacademy.org for schedule of events and tickets

Aler 858-775-5473 | Anantha 619-873-5206 | Banu 520-591-2940 | Geetha 858-334-3765 | Kalpana 858-761-1839 | Kasturi 760-696-3377 Lakshminarayana 619-427-1086 | Narayanan 858-592-4133 | Neha 858-231-6484 | Rekha 858-437-3358 | Revathi 858-793-7163 | Shashi M 619-562-0814

Shashi P 858-776-1956 | Shekar 858-442-1586 | Shri 858-922-2784 | Suman 858-349-8293 | Tadimeti 858-792-7953 | Venkatachalam 858-232-6459

Date Event # Event info Duration Accompanying Artists Event Title

03.2

4.2

018 - S

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Event 6 Carnatic Vocal 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM All Artists and Local Participants

Pancharatna Krithis & Pancharathna Krithis

Book ReleaseBreak: 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Event 7 Carnatic Vocal 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Akkarai Sisters (Vocal); Ragavendra Rao (Violin) Shree Sundarkumar (Mridangam) Guru Prasad (Ghatam) Classical Melodies

Lunch Break - 12:30 PM - 1:15 PM

Event 8 Carnatic Vocal 1:15 PM - 3:30 PM

Guru Neyveli Santhanagopalan (Vocal) Nagai Muralidharan (Violin) Sangita Kalanidhi Trichy Sankaran

(Mridangam) Karthik Venkataraman (Khanjira)

Endaro Mahanubhavulu Srinivasan Praba Memorial Concert

Break 3:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Event 9Lecdem by Dr. Padma

Subrahmanyam on Balasaraswati & Bharathanatyam in Vazhuvur Style

3:45 PM - 5:45 PM

Dr. Padma Subrahmanyam & Smt. Rhadha Ramanathan (Duet) in Vazhuvur Style;

Kannan Balakrishnan (Veena); Dr. Gayatri Kannan (Vocal) S. Girish (Vocal) Prabhu Sriram (Mridangam)

Bharata Nrityam

Dinner 5:45 PM - 6:30 PM

Event 10A Felicitation Ceremony 6:30 PM - 7:15 PM

FELICITATION CHAIR - Supervisor Kristin Gaspar Council Member - Barbara Bry HONOREES - Padma Bhushan Dr. Padma Subrahmanyam, Padma Bhushan Sudha

Raghunathan, and Guru Rhadha Ramanathan GUESTS OF HONOR - Sangita Acharya - TSR Krishnan and Kala Seva Rathna - VV Sundaram

Event 10B Carnatic Vocal 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM

Sangeetha Kalanidhi Sudha Raghunathan Raghavendra Rao (Violin) Tiruvarur Vaidyanathan

(Mridangam) N. Guru Prasad (Ghatam)

Golden Melodies of Dr. ML Vasanthakumari

03.2

5.2

016 - S

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Event 11 Carnatic and Hindustani Music and Dance

8:15 AM - 10:30 AM

Kala Seva Rathna Revathi Subramaniam and her disciples; Amshu Murthy and his disciples; Radhakrishnan Ramachandran and his disciples; Debjani Chakraborty and her disciples; Shobha Sharma and her disciples

Dancing Deities

Break -10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Event 12 Carnatic Instrumental 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Nagai Muralidharan and Delhi Sunder Rajan (Violin Duet) Mannargudi Easwaran (Mridangam)

Giridhar Udupa (Ghatam) Contrasting Banis

Lunch: 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM

Event 13 Bharathanatyam 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM Dr. Gowri Ramnarayan and Priyadarsini Govind Aham Sita

Break 3:15 PM - 3:45 PM

Event 14 Carnatic Instrumental 3:45 PM - 6:15 PM

Shashank Subramanyam (Flute) Akkarai Swarnalatha (Violin) Parupalli Phalgun (Mridangam)

Karthik Venkataraman (Khanjira)

Divine Devarnama Kal Ramnarayan

Memorial Concert Dinner Break: 6:15 PM - 7:00 PM

Event 15 Carnatic Vocal 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Abhishek Raguram (Vocal) Delhi Sunder Rajan (Violin) Guru Karaikudi Mani (Mridangam)

Giridhar Udupa (Ghatam)Cascading Melodies

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