Events
Events:
Cultural Festival and Lecture with Violin Performance by Felix Padel Apr 10, 2015
The Humanities and Social Sciences Program and Sudents' Clubs at IISER Pune invite you to a smorgasbord of music, dance, literature, drama, and an insightful lecture that addresses the transcendental nature of music across cultures.
The evening will combine Sea Minor, a students' cultural festival, and a lecture-cum-violin performance by Dr Felix Padel.
Date: Friday, April 10
Time: 6.00 pm
Venue: CV Raman Hall, LHC, IISER Pune
Sea Minor
Inaugural cultural festival which will display an enthralling blend of performances by the IISER students representing the Dance, Drama, Literary and Music Students' Clubs.
The Gifts of Harmony: Differences and Common Threads between Musical Cultures
(with violin performance)
Felix Padel has dual trainings as an anthropologist/sociologist and as a musician. As a musician he was trained in Western classical violin by leading players/teachers Emmanuel Hurwitz and Sheila Nelson, and in the Dhrupad vocal tradition by Ritwick Sanyal of the Dagarvani tradition in Varanasi, and Madhu Bhatt-Tilang of Jaipur. He is also a self-taught performer of dance songs from Eastern Europe and the Middle East, especially Greek, Jugoslav and Kurdish music.
In this lecture, he brings together aspects of his musical and anthropological training, to explore with examples, the power of music, how different cultures express key elements through the medium of music, song and dance, and how music can take us to realms beyond the essential ambiguity of words.
