Hindu Friday Review Fest to begin on Nov. 14 with Girija Devi concert
CHENNAI, November 9: The fourth edition of The Hindu Friday Review November Festival will kick-start here on November 14. The festival will last till November 23. Like the previous editions, this time too the organizers have lined up an array of musicians from within and outside India, representing diverse genres - classical, jazz, folk and what not. The Friday Review Fest will commence on November 14 with a grand music recital by the queen of thumri Girija Devi, the legendary doyenne of the Benares gharana. The next day will see a sitar recital by Shujaat Husain Khan. He is considered the torch bearer of the gayaki ang or vocal style, evolved by his father, sitar maestro Vilayat Khan. The festival will also feature a group of musicians from Chennai - Shrinivas, Anuradha Sriram, Naresh Iyer and Chinmayi. They will present evergreen melodies from Hindi cinema. The festival will see Carnatic vocal singers Bombay Jayashri and T. M. Krishna come together to present a jugabandhi of an unusual kind.
This time around, the organizers have roped in Thomas Siffling trio - Thomas Siffling, Jens Loh and Markus Faller - to perform at the Fest. The idea is to satiate the music tastes of the young ones. The festival will also provide a platform for the folk music and Hindustani classcial music to meet. Well, Malwa folk singer Prahlad Singh Tipaniya will join the Hindustani classical vocalist Sriram Parasuram to dish out a feast of a music for the Chenniates. Shubha Mudgal will come back to the city and ragale the audience yet once again in this November series of The Hindu Friday Review. The festival promises lot more to the music lovers. The festival schedule is given below.
| The Hindu Friday Review November Festival |
| November 14 |
Girija Devi (Hindustani vocal) |
| November 15 |
Shujaat Husain Khan (Hindustani instrumental) |
| November 16 |
Old Hindi melodies (Shrinivas, Anuradha Sriram, Chinmayi and Naresh Iyer) |
| November 17 |
Symposium on "Finding the Balance: Art and Audience". Neyveli Santhanagopalan, Pandit Shivkumar Sharma, Leela Samson, R. K. Shriram Kumar and Mani Kaul. Response by Nithyashree Mahadevan and T. M. Krishna. |
| November 18 |
"The Inner Voice: Antardhwani", a film on santoor maestro Pandit Shivkumar Sharma by Jabbar Patel |
| November 19 |
Walk-in concerts - K. Gayatri, Ranjani Hebbar and T. Bhavani Prasad; V. Sumithra and Nanditha Ravi; Sandeep Narayan and Vijayagopal |
| November 20 |
Bombay Jayashri and T. M. Krishna (Carnatic vocal) |
| November 21 |
Thomas Siffling Trio – German jazz |
| November 22 |
Sriram Parasuram and Prahlad Singh Tipaniya (Indian fusion) |
| November 23 |
Shubha Mudgal (Indipop and fusion music) |
Tickets are priced at Rs. 500, Rs. 300 and Rs. 150. Season passes are available for Rs.2,500 and Rs.1,500. Tickets for all shows can be purchased online at
www.thehindu.com/novemberfest
Counters: Tickets for all the shows will be available at The Music Academy (between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.), Landmark (Nungambakkam, Spencer Plaza and Chennai Citi Centre) and The Hindu Office, 859-860 Anna Salai (between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.)
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