Proceeds to benefit
 ASHA FOR EDUCATION |
ASHA FOR
EDUCATION Presents
iCoachMath NOTES OF HOPE 2005 - A concert by SAROD MAESTRO AMJAD ALI KHAN (an honorary citizen of the city of Atlanta) |
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SONS AMAAN
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ALI BANGASH (Dinner will be available for purchase for a nominal fee. Children under the age of 5 will be admitted FREE. Complimentary babysitting will also be provided. Students [age 5 and up] may be seated with their parents with a paid student ticket.)  -  - 
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“In the Art of Sarod playing echoes the human voice… Amjad Ali Khan's were the right hands to be doing these things..” - The New York Times, 2000 (Carnegie Hall) Ustad Amjad Ali Khan is acknowledged as one of India's foremost classical musicians and the maestro of his chosen instrument, the Sarod. Born in 1945 in Gwalior, where his father was a musician to the royal family, he made an early debut giving his first solo recital at the age of 12 in 1958. He represents the sixth generation of his family to inherit a classical tradition that goes back through his father, the late Ustad Hafiz Ali Khan to the era of the court musicians of the Mughal Empire and the original 'Senia-Beenkar' Gharana musical 'school' devoted to the tradition of the legendary Mian Tansen, Ustadji learnt the Sarod from his father. The sarod is an Indian classical musical instrument which probably originates from the Senya rebab, an Indio-Persian instrument played in India to the 19th century. It is a 25-stringed lute-like instrument, whose body is hand carved from a single block of tun (Indian Mahogany) or teak wood, with a steel fretless finger board. The bridge rests on the belly of the instrument which is covered in goat skin. It is played with a plectrum or jaba made of coconut. Four of the strings are melody or playing strings, three are rhythm strings, and the rest are sympathetic and jawari strings, all made of metal. |