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Wednesday, January 12, 2005

Posted 7:26 AM by Anurag

A few forthcoming Bangalore events

1) PLAY : Snakes and Ladders

The students of Christ College, in association with Still Waters present Snakes & Ladders
a play based on The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe Directed by Ram Ganesh Kamatham

7:00 pm Nani Arena, Centre for Film and Drama, 5th Floor, Sona Towers, Millers Road, Bangalore (Go right up Cunningham Road, it's a one way... take a left onto Millers Road. Sona Towers comes up on the left, the second building after the empty lot... the one with Central Bank on the Ground Floor and a big tree near the gate.)

13th 14th 15th & 16th of January, 2005
Tickets @ Rs. 49 available at Supermarket, Brigade Road
For more details contact: 9880228871

About the Author

Sure we all know Shakespeare, but who's that other guy? The one they say was a spy? The writer of the mighty line? The guy who was killed when he was twenty-nine in a barroom brawl?

That would be Christopher Marlowe, the greatest of Shakespeare's predecessors.

The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe tells the tale of a German scholar who sells his soul to the devil for twenty-four years of voluptuous indulgence. Accompanied by the demon Mephistopheles, Faustus has a riotous time, playing practical jokes and conjuring up the spirits of Alexander the Great and Helen of Troy. At the end of the period however, he is faced with the abysmal prospect of surrendering his soul. He utters a poignant plea, but cannot repent. When the clock strikes the midnight hour, he is carted off to hell by a horde of devils. (In one version his dismembered body is discovered by his fellow scholars the next morning!)

About the play

Snakes & Ladders slams this four-hundred year old text into a modern context. Six devils discover some puppets while loitering about the mouth of hell. They bring the puppets to life and begin the retelling of this ancient tale. The reckless student Faustus obsesses over the college bombshell - Helen. Stuck in the middle, is Faustus' buddy Wagner, who watches horrified as Faustus sells his soul to the pill-pushing Malayali businessman Mephisto, in an attempt to impress Helen. Young Faustus foolishly surrenders his soul for a paltry six hours of unadulterated partying and faces the consequences…

Please note : There is NO FOUL LANGUAGE in the play, though you may find it extremely stomach turning :->

2) Finland Band feat. Sakari Kuko on Sax @ Moonplugged Sat, 15th jan at CKP

Introducing
moonplugged
Series of music concerts, showcasing the stars…..

Guruskoolmusic, who catalyse the unique musician's movement known as the FREEDOM JAM, are pleased to launch the MOONPLUGGED music concerts featuring master musicians of various genres who will weave tapestries in sound in a firelit open air ambience.

At 6 pm on Saturday 15th Jan, 2005.at the open air theatre in the Chitra Kala Parishad,on Kumara Krupa road, Bangalore featuring:

The legendary saxophonist Sakari Kukko's PIIRPAUKE (Finland) With special guest - Konarak Reddy
TRANS GLOBAL FUSION feat. Lalitha Nandini -(Chennai)
ESPERANTO feat. Geetha Navale -(Bangalore) with special guest Praksah Sontakke.
Come, be delighted!!

Rs.200/- is collected at the MOONPLUGGED concerts for the benefit of the performing musicians, which includes a CD of one of the featured performers.

The event is supported by independent record label KREEK and WORLD SPACE satellite radio.Passes are available at WORLD SPACE lounges on Brigade Road and Jayanagar and at the venue .

www.guruskoolmusic.com

The concept

'Soma' the moon is spoken of in the Vedas as the source of delight and is truly a great inspiration for music.The moonplugged series of concerts has thus been happening for about a year now at the creekside Guruskool amphitheatre on the outskirts of Bangalore.

The experience of listening to great music amidst nature, illuminated by firelight has been so transporting that we wish to share this experience with a larger audience. It has thus been chosen to hold it at the beautiful open air theatre in the Chitra Kala Parishad arts complex on Kumara Krupa road where we wish to recreate the magic in the heart of Bangalore city.

PIIRPAUKE ( Finland) World Music

featuring Sakari Kukko on Sax, Roi Rottonien on Cello, Olavi Louhivuori Drumset , Lauri Salkovski on Bass, and Seva on Vocals, Emma Salkovski Vocals with special guest Bangalore's own Konarak Reddy on guitar.

A never-ending story of musical travel excitement and brilliance. not following fashions but pursuing new fresh interests and ideas from band leader Sakari Kukko.Somehow Piirpauke always manages to make the diverse material sound like their own.

By now, most people are aware of World Music and realize that it simply means the appreciation of the best tunes from all over the world. Some people saw it coming years and years ago and were playing it before anybody had thought of calling it World Music or anything.

Sakari Kukko - visionary, world traveller and multi-instrumentalist from Finland - saw it coming more than 20 years ago, when he formed the first line-up of Piirpauke and was immediately awarded with a hit. Since that first success with a poignant Karelian folk tune, Sakari has guided his ever-improving line-ups on musical journeys through the delights of Balkan, Turkey, Africa, Latin America and points in between. After more than a dozen albums and many tours and concerts in Spain, Scandinavia, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, Cuba, Soviet Union, India and Turkey the band is now ready to set their sights further afield. Sakari and his saxes, flutes and keyboards have never been content with merely polite "fusion music", but have always striven to draw the most fire and beauty from the most inspiring sources, no matter where. With his present international line-up of master musicians from Finland, Sakari is truly an ambassador of World Music.

KonarakReddy has often been called India's best and most innovative guitarist. His original training was in western classical music on Classical Guitar, and he studied classical theory with Ms. Marion Fewkes. He completed his LTCL and LRSM music degrees through Royal School and Trinity College of Music, London. In 1976 he studied jazz composition, arrangement and performance for one year at Berkley College of Music, Boston.

TRANS GLOBAL FUSION feat .Lalitha Nandini - Chennai - Carnatic fusion

Dr M Lalitha and M Nandini - Violins ,Joel - Keyboards Shantakumar-Tavil , Mrs Subbulakshmi Muthuswamy - Tala ,

The ace Violin duo of the sisters Lalitha & Nandhini . Who are nieces of the famous violin trio viz L Vaidyanathan, L Subramaniarn and L Shankar. They even had the same guru, who's also their grandpa, the illustrious V Lakshminarayana..
Their music sounds like a variation of Bach's toccata and fugue, with elements of jazz and Carnatic styles thrown in. Lalitha, who was recently awarded a doctorate for her thesis on "A Comparative Study of Violin Techniques in Western and South Indian Classical Styles", They have played to audiences all over the world and last august held 10,000 strong crowd spellbound at the FREEDOM JAM festival in Bangalore.

.ESPERANTO feat. Geetha Navale -(Bangalore)

Geetha Navale on Veena, Michael Sorensen on Blues Harp, Gopal Navale on Guitar and Nataraj on percussion & drumset, Krishna Prasad on Ghatam and With special guest Prakash Sontakke on Hawaian Guitar.

Esperanto's music demonstrates the continuing beneficial influence of Indian music upon world culture.

It has expanded its musical vision through continuous collaborations with musicians from around the world at Guruskool, their lush residential world music lab on the outskirts of Bangalore, the esperanto project has over the years evolved and is widely appreciated for its uncanny ability to present various styles of music in settings that are exotically charming but still accessible .

Geetha Navale is an internationally acclaimed carnatic veena player known for her very 'tasty' sound and the ability to blend the ancient strings of the veena with 'avant garde' jazz/rock idioms. Her playing has left audiences in 'over the edge' jazz clubs in New York breathless, dazzled grunge clubs in Seattle as well as gladdened the hearts of the devout in many a small temple in India.

Prakash Sontakke is adept at slide guitar, vocal and violin and is one of the most respected Hindustani classical performers in the City.

The concert concludes with a grand finale performed by musicians drawn form all the groups.

Come, be delighted!!

3) Creeps - Comedy at last

The Company Theater In association with Goethe-Institut, Max Mueller Bhavan presents
Creeps a play by Lutz Hubner in English Directed by Atul Kumar

A shocking comedy looking at the? Generation Next? With the increasing influence of Television and Media and their influence on the personal being and relationships between the young of today. The growing sense of competition and razor edge desire to? Make it? In the new wave of VJ-aying, hosting programes and shashying up market lifestyles and leading Television programmes depicting the hollowness and fatality of dreams, desires and needs of the youth of today. A humorous look at what goes on behind the scenes

On January 22 and 23, 2005 at 7.30 p.m. (SHARP) at Ranga Shankara (Rs.100/ ticket) and On January 21 at 7.30 pm (SHARP) in Grasshopper on Bhannerghatta Road (Rs. 250/ ticket with appetizers)

Tickets available at Max Muller Bhavan (Ph: 2221 9772)
Ranga Shankara (Ph: 2649 4655/56)
Shankars (Ph: 2558 6868)
For email booking of tickets please mail: rswrites@rediffmail.com (NOTE:
email bookings-Tickets will have to be collected well in advance-before the
date of the show)
For further information contact Nirmala on 98452 09716

Come and experience the extravagance

CAST & CREDITS
Writer: Lutz Hubner
Director: Atul Kumar
Language: English
Duration: 75 minutes without Interval
Genre: Comedy
ACTORS: Shubhavi K Anuja Ghosalkar Priya Venkataraman Freddy Feroz
LIGHTS: Sujay Saple
SOUND: Rachael

1 comments

Comments:

I do agree with the opinion that the sisters were far below the expextations of the crowd ..

afterall this is not the first time we go for fusion concerts !
and among all my experiences with music ...this one failed to make an impact ...

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Anonymous : April 04, 2007 11:48 AM