A Cultural Education: Delhi-Jan '07 to Apr '08

20th January, 2007

Theatre at Kamani Auditorium

presented by National School of Drama and Sanskar Rang Toli

Premchandki Kahaniyan: two day theatre festival of Premchands best

directed by Devendra Raj Ankur

2nd April, 2007
Music at
India Habitat Centre
presented by
The Delhi Music Society, Artsahimsa and the India International Centre
Laura Goldberg (Violin), Amy Lieberman (Soprano) and Steven Masi (Piano)
Bach, Beethoven and Debussy
followed by songs from
The Great American Songbook (1935-1945)

27th April, 2007

Various vocal musics at M.L. Bhartia Auditorium, Alliance Française

presented by Alliance Française de Delhi and others

Delhi Chamber Choir and Delhi Opera Ensemble, conducted by Gabriella Boda-Rechner and Situ Singh Buehler
Debut concert of the Delhi Chamber Choir

Madrigals, motets, folk adaptations by Morley, Bach, Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Durufle; also operatic pieces by Delhi Opera Ensemble.

13th August, 2007

Acoustic music at IIT

presented by Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Society for Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Amongst Youth

Ziskakan, band from French Reunion Island comprising band members Gernard Clara, Mishko M'Ba, Pascal Manglou, Jean Rassiga, Rouben Savariaye

Band singing in native (French) Creole, to bass, guitar, tabla, drum, dholak, keyboards, conga, sitar and a special sea-sound instrument called creon.

29th August, 2007

Classical string quartet at Shri Ram Centre for the Arts

presented by Max Mueller Bhawan, Goethe-Institut, Society for Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Amongst Youth

Signum Quartett

Schumann, Haydn, Jörg Widman

14th October, 2007

Music, Dance and demi-theatre at Max Mueller Bhawan
presented by The Neemrana Music Foundation and India International Centre
The Delhi Opera Ensemble led by Situ Singh Buehler, conducted by Gabriella Boda Rechner; also the Sadhya Ballet Troupe
Autumn Festival: two days of Classical music,
Second Day:
Offenbach, Donizetti, Mozart, Puccini, Verdi
followed by songs from musical theatre, including J. Kander's
(Life is a) Cabaret, J. Bock's If I Were a Rich Man from Fiddler on the Roof and Andrew Lloyd Webber's All I Ask of You from The Phantom of the Opera.

1st December, 2007

Music at Central Park, Connaught Place

presented by Seher, Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Ministry of External Affairs

SAARC Bands Festival

featuring Strings, Advaita, Soulmate and many more

10th December, 2007

Theatre orchestral music at Purana Qila

presented by Fondazione Cariparma, Commune di Parma, Fondazione Monte di Parma, Ministero degli Affari Easteri, Embassy of Italy Italian Cultural Institute, Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Delhi Tourism and others

Festa Italiana

Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Parma //(sorry if this link doesn’t work, it’s a Google-generated translation from the Italian) conducted by Donato Renzetti featuring Silvia Dalla Benetta (Soprano), Leonardo Lopez Linares (Baritone)

Verdi, Donizetti, Puccini, Rossini

c. 20th January, 2008
Film at India Habitat Centre
presented by Breakthrough, Federation of Film Societies of India, UHURU, India Habitat Centre, Alliance Française and others
Tri Continental Film Festival 08: Asia, Africa, America
India premiere of A Jihad for Love (2007), Arabic/ French/ Farsi/ Hindi/ Urdu/ Turkish film by
Parvez Sharma, about sexuality in Islam.


c. 25th January, 2008
Theatre at Kamani Auditorium
presented by Dash Arts, The British Council, Indian Council for Cultural Relations and others
Tim Supple (Director)
A Midsummer Night's Dream, a multilingual English/ Tamil/ Malayalam/ Hindi/ Sinhalese/ Bengali/ Marathi/ Sanskrit acrobatic adaptation.

1st March, 2008

Music at India Habitat Centre

presented by Indian Council for Cultural Relations and others

Release of new album Public Issue by Sushmit Bose; Dylan-esque walkin'-talkin' ballads from the album; also two impromptu Baul songs

featuring vocals and rhythm guitar by Sushmit Bose, Deepak Castelino on banjo and classical guitar, backup vocals by Rukmini Sekhar

7th, 15th March, 2008
Music and Film at Alliance Française
presented by Organisation Internationale de la francophonie, Semaines de la Francophone India, Embassade de France en Inde, Alliance Française and others
Francophonie Weeks
7th March: Film Festival; Festival Vivre ensemble at M.L. Bhartia Auditorium

Zim and Co (2005) directed by Pierre Jolivet, about an ingenious young man dogged by trouble.
15th March: Alliance Française de Delhi Golden Jubilee Choir

17th, 19th March, 2008
Music at Max Mueller Bhawan and India Habitat Centre
presented by Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Goethe-Institut, Hungarian Information and Cultural Centre, Auswärtiges Amt, German Federal Foreign Office
Capital City Minstrels and the Remscheider Vokalensemble //(sorry if this link doesn’t work, it’s a Google-generated translation from the German)
conducted by Gabriella Boda-Rechner and Werner Rizzi
Viva la Musica - Songs Beyond Borders
Orlando di Lasso, Claudio Monteverdi, Thomas Morley, Johann Sebastian Bach, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Brahms, Max Reger, Gerhard Schwarz //(not found online!) , Johann K. Bachofen //(no info found online!), Fritz Werner and others, including Rizzi's own Wundernacht
also songs from India, Morocco, Venezuela, Hungary and Israel.
Eröd Iván's Viva la Musica as encore.

17th April, 2008

Dance at Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre

presented by Embassy of Israel

You: a choreography by Israeli dancer-choreographer Ido Tadmor

Featuring singer/dancer Michal Amdurski and pop musician Ohad Hitman

23rd April, 2008

Flamenco at Kamani Auditorium

presented by Embajada de España en Delhi, Indian Council for Cultural Relations

La Compañía María Pagés

1 comment:

Abhijit Bhaduri said...

That's an amazing experience you have had. Made me feel jealous - look at how much of good music you have heard!