When: Friday 11th May  2012
Time: 6.30 p.m.

Where: Venue - Poorva Sanskritik Kendra (PSK near Nirman Vihar Metro Station),  Laxmi Nagar,   Delhi-92 .

Programme: Artists:
1. Students of Sri Sambhunath Roy will perform group Tabla
2. Sri Rajkumar Majumdar (Santoor)   Sri Sambhunath Roy (Tabla accompaniment)

All are invited with family and friends.

Trustees: Mrs. Seema Deepak,  Mr. S.L. Deepak (CA),  Arup Ratan Mukherjee.
For Details Contact: 09810978604 Email:sldeepakca@gmail.com

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What: Bickram Ghosh Presents Live in Park Hosted by Calcutta Classical Guitar Society and supported by Kolkata Municipal Corporation

When: 12th May 2012, Saturday (5.30pm to 7.30pm)

Where: Maddox Square, Ritchie Road, Kolkata

Performances by -
1) Ivy Banerjee ( Music : Hindustani Classical)
2) Mud Soda Spark ( Music : Contemporary )
3) 97 WEST ( Music : Fusion)
4) Dipannita Acharya ( Music ; Folk)
5) Margub Ali (Photography)

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  April 30th, 2012

ABC CARPET & HOME CELEBRATES ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE DONOVAN WITH AN INTIMATE CONCERT AND CONVERSATION WITH DEEPAK CHOPRA

WHAT:  Please join ABC Carpet & Home, Donovan and Deepak Chopra for the only event celebrating Donovan’s induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and the release of The Essential Donovan, a 36-song double-CD collection. The discussion will center on Donovan’s inspired commitment to amplifying peace, love and divinity through music. If you are unable to attend, please join us via Livestream starting at 7pm at http://livestream.com/abccarpetandhome.

WHEN:          Tuesday May 1st, 6:30 – 8:30 pm

WHERE:        ABC Carpet & Home, 888 Broadway at 19th Street

Deepak HomeBase on the Mezzanine
SCHEDULE:  
6:30 – 7:00 pm Opening reception
7:00 – 7:45 pm Welcome and Donovan set
7:45 – 8:15 pm Deepak Chopra and Donovan conversation
8:15 – 9:00 pm Closing reception

CONTACTS:    For Donovan press inquiries, please contact Michael Jensen at mj@jensencom.com. For ABC Carpet & Home press inquiries, please contact Carola Beeney at cbeeney@abchome.com.

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Shalshelet, the Foundation for New Jewish Music, is proud to announce the 2013 Fifth International Music Festival on February 16-17th  is being held at Beth Torah Benny Rok Campus in North Miami Beach!

March 5th, 2012: Miami, FL– Shalshelet, the Foundation for New Jewish Music, is proud to announce that musical submissions for the 2013 Fifth International Festival, being held at the Beth Torah Benny Rok Campus in North Miami Beach on February 16-17th, are now officially open. The Shalshelet organization has been steadily growing since it’s beginnings, tallying a total of about 400 submissions last year, and has been held in various areas of the United States, with prior Festivals attracting skilled international composers from around the world, ranging from ages 17 to 87.

The beautiful concept behind Shalshelet’s creative process is that it allows musical composers to introduce new, unique melodies to traditional Jewish blessings that have been around for centuries. Shalshelet allows individuals with a passion for music to foster their abilities by submitting their own tunes in singular form; one that has never before been heard or shared among congregations. Composer honorees are given the opportunity not only to share their music by performing at the Festival, but also to participate in workshops with other music lovers from diverse communities and traditions, and to celebrate the joy of music. The workshops allow performers, musicians, and music enthusiasts to explore the process of choosing a text and composing a new melody, comparing different ways of setting the same passage to music, and hearing melodies for less commonly sung texts.

Song books and CDs based on winning submissions from the selected Festival Honorees are then distributed to cantors around the globe, who teach their congregations this new form of music. To hear sample tracks and more information on Shalshelet, please visit the website: www.shalshelet.org. To view previous Festival performances, please visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxEsAVRdeU0. For press inquiries or sample CD/music book requests, please contact Katherine@blinkpr.com

About Shalshelet:
The mission of Shalshelet is to enhance spirituality and build community through the creation and dissemination of  ancient Jewish music. The Foundation believes that these songs have the power to link Jews, affiliated and unaffiliated, across all denominations and can provide fresh insight and depth, enriching the spiritual lives of Jews and non-Jews alike. The objective of Shalshelet is to unearth and encourage the creation of these melodies and bring awareness on an international scale. The common tie of ancient music will link Jews in a broader and deeper sense of community, and will enhance the vibrancy of the Jewish people. Shalshelet is entirely volunteer-led by its dedicated board of directors, a distinguished advisory board and other supporters lending their time and professional expertise to this innovative project.

Katherine Fleischman
Founder + President
blink Public Relations
Katherine@blinkpr.com

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Primus, Phil Lesh & Friends, Bob Weir & Bruce Hornsby with Special Guest Branford Marsalis, Mickey Hart Band, Sound Tribe Sector 9 & The Avett Brothers Set to Perform July 19th – 22nd

Facebook contest gives 130k+fans the power to choose their favorite up & coming band to perform

Early Bird Tickets Sold Out – Way Advance Ticket Price Extended!

Bridgeport, Conn. – Known as the Northeast’s premier music, arts and camping festival, the 17th annual Gathering of the Vibes will deliver a four-day extravaganza featuring a stellar lineup including: Primus, Phil Lesh & Friends, Bob Weir & Bruce Hornsby with Special Guest Branford Marsalis, Mickey Hart Band, Sound Tribe Sector 9, The Avett Brothers, along with Yonder Mountain String Band, 7 Walkers, The Greyboy Allstars, and Steel Pulse.

Vibes favorites Dark Star Orchestra, Zappa Plays Zappa, and Bridgeport’s own Deep Banana Blackout will return to the stage in 2012. Over 40 bands will perform on multiple stages located throughout the 370-acre beachfront venue. While Early Bird tickets have sold out, Way Advance ticket pricing has been extended as a token of thanks to the “Vibe Tribe” for their neverending love of great music and good times.

“The Vibes is a seminal gathering of the tribes, and should be supported by those who spawned it,” shared Mickey Hart, founding member of The Grateful Dead.

Continuing its tradition of embracing new, undiscovered artists, Vibes is letting its 130,000 Facebook fans select one up-and-coming band to perform in front of 20,000+ music enthusiasts. Fans are encouraged to vote by June 1st using the Road to the Vibes App and the winner will be announced in early June. “Gathering of the Vibes celebrates the way music allows us to share that which goes beyond words,” explained festival founder Ken Hays. “Right now there’s a convergence of jam bands, electronica, and rock and roll – bridging the generations and truly making this a festival with something for everyone.”

Gathering of the Vibes is an all ages, family friendly event, offering an exclusive Family Camping area, Kids Corner, Teen Scene including interactive programing and a “School of Rock Teen Vibes Stage,” featuring musical instruction and jam sessions with Main Stage artists.

Single day and Weekend VIP ticket holders enjoy added perks: expedited entry and rock-star parking with easy in/out access, shaded camping areas along with catered meals, snacks and beverages, air conditioned bathroom trailers, and hot showers. Located stage left on the concert field, the massive VIP hospitality tent and viewing platforms offer exceptional stage sightlines and the opportunity to mix and mingle with artists. Single Day, Weekend, and VIP tickets are on sale now at: www.GOVIBES.com.

Seaside Park is easily accessible by public transportation and just 50 miles from Manhattan. Fans traveling from NYC can take Metro North or the Port Jefferson Ferry. Shuttle bus service will transport festival attendees to and from the venue, local area hotels, the ferry, train and bus stations. Discounted hotel accommodations at Vibes preferred hotels are available here.

To watch video of the lineup click here. Follow Gathering of the Vibes on Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace, or check the message boards for the most updated festival information.

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• Wednesday, March 14
• KEXP (Seattle)
• Howler: 11:30am
• The Barr Brothers: 1:30pm
• Wussy: 3:30pm
• Allen Stone: 5:30pm
• Of Monsters and Men: 7:30pm
• KGSR (Austin)
• My Jerusalem: 6:30am
• Amy Cook: 7:00 am
• The Lumineers: 7:30am
• M. Ward: 8:00am  
• Ben Kweller: 8:30am
• Michael Kiwanuka: 9:00am
• Bob Schneider with The Tosca String Quartet: 9:30am

• Thursday, March 15
• KEXP (Seattle)
• Imperial Teen: 11:30am
• The Wedding Present: 1:30pm
• Choir of Young Believers: 3:30pm
• Tennis: 5:30pm
• Shearwater: 7:30pm
• KGSR (Austin)
• Nakia: 6:00am
• Elle King: 6:30am
• Jimmy Cliff: 7:30am
• Rhett Miller: 8:00am
• Blitzen Trapper: 8:30am
• Ingrid Michaelson: 9:00am    
• Delta Spirit: 9:30am
• WFUV (New York)
• Bruce Springsteen Keynote Address: 12:00pm – 1pm

• Friday, March 16
• KEXP (Seattle)
• Pickwick: 11:30am
• The War On Drugs: 1:30pm
• JD McPherson: 3:30pm
• The Men: 5:30pm
• Youth Lagoon:  7:30pm
• KGSR (Austin)
• ZZ Ward: 6:30am
• Graffiti6: 7:00am   
• Fun.: 7:30am
• Walk The Moon: 8:00am  
• Nada Surf: 8:30am
• Tom Morello: 9:00am 
• Charlie Mars: 9:30am
• James Mercer of The Shins: 10am
• WFUV (New York)
• Punch Brothers, Shearwater: 12:00pm – 2:00pm
• Andrew Bird, Alabama Shakes, Dan Deacon, Sharon Van Etten: 6:00pm – 9:00pm

• Saturday, March 17
• KGSR (Austin)
• Kat Edmonson: 8:00am
• Yellow Ostrich: 8:30am
• Ben Howard: 9:00am
• Ed Sheeran: 9:30am
• Givers: 10:00am
• Special Guests TBA: 10:30am
• Keane: 11:00am
• Special Guests TBA: 11:30am
• WFUV (New York)
• [artists TBD] All weekend on The Alternate Side: Eric hosts recorded live sets

• Sunday, March 18
• WFUV (New York)
• [artists TBD] All weekend on The Alternate Side: Eric hosts recorded live sets

Hunter, NY (March 14, 2012) – It was announced today that Charlie Dane, the 13 year old Oyster Bay NY born singer/songwriter , will be joining the already stellar lineup for the 8th annual Mountain Jam Festival at Hunter Mountain, NY happening from Thursday, May 31 through Sunday, June 3, 2012.

“I think that it’s awesome to be included to perform on the same stage with so many big names in music” Charlie said “playing Mountain Jam is going to be so much fun and is one of so many amazing things that are happening for me this year”

Gov’t Mule will headline Friday and Saturday nights, with the legendary Steve Winwood headlining Sunday night following performances by Michael Franti & Spearhead, Dawes, and the just-added Tedeschi Trucks Band, hot off the heels of their recent Grammy Award for Best Blues Album for their 2011 release, Revelator. Also added to the Mountain Jam 2012 lineup is a very special latenight DJ Set from James Murphy (of LCD Soundsystem), as well as an after-hours set from electronic jam-band, Lotus, back for their third Mountain Jam appearance.

Charlie Dane is truly a star on the rise, opening up for Eric Krasno at Sullivan Hall and for Papa Grows Funk at Hiro Ballroom at a benefit to help Paul Newman’s Hole in the Wall Gang Camp as well as several times at The Bitter End in NYC from the recognition that she received at their “Chick Singer Night” series. Charlie has appeared on stage as a duet with the great George Porter Jr and the Runnin Pardners.  She also opened up for Radiators members playing as Raw Oyster Cult at AOA in NYC.

The past two summers, Charlie has been playing at music festivals such as South By Southwest, Gathering Of The Vibes, Great South Bay Music Festival, Equifunk, the 27 and 28th annual Oyster Festivals as well as for Camps R Us and Girl Scout Summer Camps.

Come see her live at Mountain Jam this Summer!!

For more information on Charlie Dane please visit http://www.charliedane.net
For more info on Mountain Jam please visit http://www.mountainjam.com
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SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY AND MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS ANNOUNCE 2012-13 SEASON CONCERT PROGRAMS, RECORDINGS, AND COMMUNITY INITIATIVES

Orchestra’s 101st season highlights include Tilson Thomas-led explorations of music by Beethoven, Stravinsky, and enhanced concert experiences around Grieg’sPeer GyntandBeethoven’s Missa solemnis

MTT conducts the SFS in the first concert performances by an orchestra of Bernstein’s complete West Side Story

Orchestra to perform two world premieres, three US premieres, three West Coast premieres, and 13 San Francisco Symphony premieres

MTT leads premieres of new SFS commissions by Samuel Carl Adams, Robin Holloway and Jörg Widmann

Soprano Renée Fleming and pianist András Schiff perform in Project San Francisco residencies; Schiff begins two-year exploration of Bach’s works for keyboard

Distinguished guests include Joshua Bell, Jonathan Biss, Yefim Bronfman, Julia Fischer, Marc-André Hamelin, Marek Janowski, Lang Lang, Vasily Petrenko, David Robertson, Gil Shaham, Yuja Wang, and Pinchas Zukerman with debuts by Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Michael Fabiano, Vladimir Jurowski, The Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble, Juraj Valcuha, and Jaap van Zweden,

Great Performers Series features concerts by theWarsaw Philharmonic and Russian National Orchestra plus recitals by Itzhak Perlman, Gil Shaham, Renée FlemingwithSusan Graham, and Matthias Goerne with Christoph Eschenbach
MTT and Orchestra to record John Adams’ Absolute Jest; SFS Media to release American Mavericks Festival recordings of works by Henry Cowell, Lou Harrison, and Carl Ruggles, and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony

MTT leads Orchestra and pianist Yuja Wang on tours of Asia and East Coast

Four-concert series at the new Green Music Center at Sonoma State University;

Orchestra to inaugurate new Bing Concert Hall at Stanford University in January 2013

San Francisco – March 5, 2012 – The San Francisco Symphony (SFS) and Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT) today announced their 2012-13 season concert programs and events, outlining an adventurous eleven-month season marked by signature concerts and staged productions that expand the boundaries of the orchestral concert experience. The Orchestra’s first season in its second century combines a commitment to new and rarely heard music with in-depth explorations of core repertoire and composers, offering audiences added context and connections to the music performed.

In his 18th season as Music Director, MTT leads the Orchestra in 17 weeks of programs in San Francisco and on tour in Asia and the US.  Highlights include explorations of music by Stravinsky and Beethoven, tracing both composers’ early musical influences and ideas from rarely performed pieces forward through their later, well-known works.  MTT will create original, staged concert productions around Grieg’s Peer Gynt and Beethoven’s Missa solemnis with video elements, and lead the first-ever concert performances by an orchestra of Bernstein’s complete music for West Side Story. The Orchestra premieres new work by contemporary composers, including performances of new commissions by Jörg Widmann, Robin Holloway, and Samuel Carl Adams, and the world premiere of a work by SFS Assistant Concertmaster Mark Volkert.

On its SFS Media label, the Orchestra releases recordings from its Centennial Season performances of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and works from the American Mavericks Festival by Henry Cowell, Carl Ruggles, and Lou Harrison. Absolute Jest by John Adams will be recorded live in concert for release on SFS Media. Soprano Renée Fleming and pianist András Schiff are this season’s Project San Francisco resident artists, with Schiff beginning a two-year exploration of the keyboard works of Bach. The SFS continues tobroaden access to music to a wider community, expanding its Community of Music Makers amateur workshops and instrument training and support programs for young people.

Subscription ticket packages for the San Francisco Symphony’s 2012-13 season are on sale now to renewing subscribers and the general public.  Ticket information is available through the San Francisco Symphony Web site at www.sfsymphony.org, through the SFS Patron Services Office at 415-864-6000,and at the Davies Symphony Hall box office, on Grove Street between Van Ness Avenue and Franklin Street in San Francisco.  Single tickets for individual concerts will go on sale on July 23.

“The artistic partnership of Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony continues to set the standard for music making of the highest level,” said Brent Assink, SFS Executive Director. “As we begin our second century, our vision is defined by our community’s abiding love of music. We offer a commitment to new music as well as to creating new ways of connecting with the core traditions of orchestral music. We continue to provide new ways for listeners to join us and make meaningful connections with our music, be it through impassioned performances in the concert hall, leading-edge media projects, or music in our schools and our community.”

MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS’ PROGRAMS
A BEETHOVEN EXPLORATION

In May 2013, MTT leads the Orchestra in three concert programs that explore Beethoven’s earliest inspirations and how they informed not only his own style but that of composers who came long after. Over the course of two weeks, the journey traces Beethoven’s advanced and often revolutionary musical ideas, culminating in enhanced performances of one of his most significant works, Missa solemnis.

A rare opportunity to hear the Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II, a work written at the age of 19 and arguably Beethoven’s first masterpiece, is paired with the composer’s Symphony No. 2. The cantata offers a glimpse into a young Beethoven finding his musical voice and features mezzo-soprano Tamara Mumford, tenor Barry Banks, and bass-baritone Andrew Foster-Williams all making their SFS debuts, and soprano Sally Matthews returning.  Mandolinist Joseph Brent makes his SFS debut in performances of Sonatina for Mandolin and Fortepiano, and the Overture from The Creatures of Prometheus opens the program.

The first SFS performances of An die ferne Geliebte (To the Distant Beloved), with tenor Michael Fabiano making his debut with the Orchestra, are paired with Symphony No. 4. The song cycle, one of the first by a major composer, was an important inspiration for later writers of song cycles, especially Schumann. The SFS brass section is showcased in the first performances of Three Equali for Four Trombones. The St. Lawrence String Quartet joins the Orchestra for performances of John Adams’s Absolute Jest, an SFS co-commission inspired by Beethoven string quartets that will be premiered during the 2012 American Mavericks Festival.

For performances of Beethoven’s choral masterpiece Missa solemnis, whichwill include staged elements including video projections, joining the Orchestra and Chorus are soprano Laura Claycomb, mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke, tenor Michael Fabiano and bass Shenyang.

“In Missa solemnis, Beethoven offers very powerful musical ideas,” said Michael Tilson Thomas. “There are references to early music that harken back to the Renaissance but at the same time very advanced musical ideas as far forward into the future as Wagner.  By using different musical forces, installations, and video, we hope to more powerfully reveal these many musical streams and the incredible impact of this work.”

STRAVINSKY’s RITE REVISITED: Inspirations and Legacy of The Rite of Spring
In June, marking the 100th anniversary of the premiere of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, Michael Tilson Thomas leadstwo concert programs designed to give audiences new insight into the composer’s folk music inspirations and the paradigm-shifting legacy of Stravinsky’s groundbreaking ballet score.  Both programs include this defining work of Stravinsky’s, paired with other lesser-known music that reflects the creative roots of his work and its lasting influence. MTT first met Stravinsky as a student in Southern California and has remained one of the composer’s most ardent advocates. The MTT/SFS 1999 all-Stravinsky recording won three Grammy Awards, and MTT created and hosted an hour-long documentary devoted to The Rite of Springin the first season of the Orchestra’s Keeping Score series on PBS.

In the first of two programs looking at the inspirations and influence of The Rite of Spring, MTT leads members of  the Orchestra and the Russian folk music specialists The Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble inthe rarely performed workLes Noces, which captures the earthly exuberance of a Russian village wedding. The program also includes Renard, a one-act chamber-opera ballet for whichStravinsky wrote lyrics based on Russian folk tales. The Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble, known for its unique singing style evoking the vitality of authentic Russian village music, also performs a selection of traditional Russian folk songs. In the second program, which traces the influences of TheRite of Spring into Stravinsky’s later neoclassical and serial works, violinist Gil Shaham joins MTT and the Orchestra in the Violin Concerto, and MTT conducts the rarely heard ballet score Agon. Agon was last performed by the SFS in 1999 during the MTT-led Stravinsky Festival.

“The folk music he heard in Russian villages made an enormous impression on a young Stravinsky,” said Michael Tilson Thomas.“In The Rite of Spring, he wanted to use the sophisticated symphony orchestra to evoke the wild power of village music. His purpose is to lead us into the psychological world behind those sounds. It is one of the most revolutionary works in the history of music.”

BERNSTEIN’S WEST SIDE STORY – First concert performances by an orchestra of the complete music
In June, the San Francisco Symphony will be the first orchestra to perform Leonard Bernstein’s complete music for the musicalWest Side Story in concert.  MTT and the SFS have received permission from all four rights-holders to perform the work in its entirety in a concert setting.  In 1957, Bernstein’s collaboration with choreographer Jerome Robbins, writer Arthur Laurents, and lyricist Stephen Sondheim led to one of the most beloved musicals in American theater.  MTT first met Bernstein several years after the West Side Story premiere and has conducted the iconic composer/conductor’s music frequently at the SFS.  With the Orchestra, MTT has led an acclaimed staged versionof On the Townand openedCarnegie Hall’s 2008 season with a Bernstein Celebration Gala that was broadcast on PBS.  This complete concert version will include all of the musical numbersfrom the original Broadway musical.The full cast of singers will be announced at a later date.

PEER GYNT – Original suite of music in semi-staged production
In an originalsemi-staged concert experience based around Ibsen’s epic five-act play, Peer Gynt, Michael Tilson Thomas will present a program of music from Edvard Griegand other composers. The January 2013 concert program takes Grieg’s Incidental Music for Ibsen’s play as a touchstone,weaving in related music by other composers, among them Robin Holloway and Alfred Schnittke,offering a range of music that reflects the scope and variety of moods within the play. The presentation will include staged and dramatic elements that offer audiences a deeper perspective on this classic work of Scandinavian literature.

MTT LEADS SFS COMMISSIONS AND PREMIERES
MTT and the Orchestra continue their commitment to expanding the classical canon with new commissions and premieres, as well as first performances by composers of the core classical tradition.  MTT leads the world premiere of Robin Holloway’s new,SFS-commissioned arrangement of Debussy’s settings ofPoems of Paul Verlaine, sung by Renée Fleming.  With Yefim Bronfman at the piano, the SFS performs the U.S. premiere of German composer Jörg Widmann’s new piano concerto, an SFS co-commission. MTT also leads the world premiere of SFS Assistant Concertmaster Mark Volkert’s new work for string orchestra, Pandora.

Tilson Thomas also conducts the first SFS performances of selections from Mozart’s unfinished opera Zaïde, performed by the Orchestra and guest soloists. MTT leads the Orchestra in the West Coast premiere of Samuel Carl Adams’s new work, Drift and Providence. Adams, born in 1985, is the son of composer John Adams. His music draws primarily from experimental forms, noise, jazz and structured improvisation, programming, and phonography. The work is a co-commission with the New World Symphony in Miami Beach and MTT will conduct the world premiere there this April. Adams’ new work will also be performed on the Orchestra’s March 2013 East Coast tour, one year after his father’s Absolute Jest is premiered in Carnegie Hall. MTT and the SFS also perform Italian composer Luciano Berio’s mid-1970s piece Eindrücke for the first time.

Among other highlights of MTT’s concerts with the Orchestra during the season:
·         The Orchestra performs two Mahler symphonies at Davies Symphony Hall and on tour.Audiences will hear Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 on the Orchestra’s tour throughout Asia, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 9 will be performed at Carnegie Hall and in Washington, D.C.
·         An all-French program at the Orchestra’s Opening Gala September 19, with violinist Joshua Bell performing Saint-Saëns’s Introduction and Rondo capriccioso and Chausson’s Poème.
·         A concert week featuring Yuja Wang in Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and Lang Lang in Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 2,on separate programs.
·         In March, Wang returns to perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4.
·         MTT leads the Orchestra in Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7.

ADDITIONAL PREMIERES AND FIRST PERFORMANCES
In addition to the SFS premieres and two commissions being conducted by MTT, the SFS also performs the U.S. premiere of Levon Atovmyan’s arrangement of Prokofiev’s Ivan the Terrible. The SFS last performed the complete music in 1979, in the arrangement by Abram Stassevich;the new arrangement was discovered in the late 1980s. Vladimir Jurowski conducts, in his debut with the Orchestra. Also, Roberto Abbado and the Orchestra perform the U.S. premiere of Italian composer Ivan Fedele’s Scena.

Pablo Heras-Casado conducts Magnus Lindberg’s new work EXPO in its West Coast premiere with the SFS, and Christoph Eschenbach and baritone Matthias Goerne perform the West Coast premiere of Detlev Glanert’s orchestrations of Brahms’s Four Preludes and Serious Songs.

Additional first SFS performances include Poulenc’s Stabat mater with the SFS Chorus and conductor Charles Dutoit; Ingvar Lidholm’s Poesis, with Herbert Blomstedt on the podium; Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 1with Yan Pascal Tortelier; Handel’s Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day with Bernard Labadie; Scriabin’s Reverie with Vladimir Jurowski conducting, and the Overture to Schumann’s Genoveva led by Roberto Abbado.

PROJECT SAN FRANCISCO: ANDRÁS SCHIFF AND RENÉE FLEMING
Pianist András Schiff and soprano Renée Fleming are this season’s Project San Francisco resident artists, offering recitals and performances with the Orchestra throughout the season. Schiff begins a two-year residency in 2012-13 focused on J.S. Bach’s works for solo keyboard, including the complete The Well-Tempered Clavier, the French Suites, and the English Suites, and works for keyboard and orchestra. Schiff is considered one of the foremost proponents of Bach’s keyboard music. His recital performances are co-presented by the San Francisco Symphony and San Francisco Performances.

Fleming performs works by Debussy and Henri Duparc with the Orchestra and MTT, including a world-premiere work by Robin Holloway that weavestogetherDebussy’ssettings of Poems of Paul Verlaine. These are the first SFS performances of music by Duparc on a regular season program since 1945. The following week Fleming performs in recital with mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and pianist Bradley Moore, featuring a wide-ranging program of operatic and concert music by composers including Chausson, Debussy, and Fauré.

2012-13 SEASON OPENING
The San Francisco Symphony’s 101st season opens Wednesday, September 5, 2012 with two weeks of concerts of Russian and German masterworks led by conductor Semyon Bychkov. Joining Bychkov and the Orchestra is violinist Pinchas Zukerman, performing Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1. The Orchestra performs Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5, and the programopens with Wagner’s Overture to Tannhäuser.The second week of concerts, beginning September 12, is devoted to performances of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7, Leningrad.

In its Opening Gala concert on September 19, Michael Tilson Thomas leads violinist Joshua Bell and the Orchestra in Saint-Saëns’s Introduction and Rondo capriccioso andChausson’s Poème, selections from Berlioz’s Romeo and Juliet, and Ravel’s Boléro. This year’s gala is in honor of Marcia Goldman and San Francisco Symphony President John D. Goldman, in recognition of his decade of leadership as he steps down from the post in October.  The Orchestra’s low-priced All San Franciscocommunity concert takes place September 20, with St. Petersburg-born violinist and Jean Sibelius Violin Competition winner Alina Pogostkina making her SFS debut performing the works by Saint-Saëns and Chausson. The Orchestra’s annual free fall outdoor concert will be led by MTT at Justin Herman Plaza on September 21.

GUEST ARTISTS AND CONDUCTORS
In addition to Schiff and Fleming, the San Francisco Symphony’s 2012-13 season features some of the world’s most acclaimed guest conductors, instrumentalists, and singers. Returning after previous successful engagements at Davies Symphony Hall areSemyon Bychkov, who conducts two concert weeks to open the season,Charles Dutoit,Marek Janowski, David Robertson, Vasily Petrenko, Kirill Karabits, SFS Conductor Laureate Herbert Blomstedt,Roberto Abbado, Christoph Eschenbach, Pablo Heras-Casado, Yan Pascal Tortelier, and Bernard Labadie.

Soloists include violinists Pinchas Zukerman, Joshua Bell,Julia Fischer; Arabella Steinbacher, James Ehnes, and Gil Shaham; pianistsYuja Wang, Lang Lang, Yefim Bronfman, Marc-André Hamelin, Jonathan Biss,David Fray, Stephen Hough, andKhatia Buniatishvili,and cellist Gautier Capuçon.The St. Lawrence String Quartet returns.Returning singers include sopranoRenée Fleming, Laura Claycomb, and Erin Wall; mezzo-sopranos Sasha Cooke and Larissa Diadkova; tenors Nicholas Phan and Paul Groves;baritone Matthias Goerneand bass Shenyang.

Making their conducting debuts on the SFS podium are Russian conductor Vladimir Jurowski (Principal Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra), Jaap van Zweden (Music Director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra; Music Director ofHong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra starting in 2012-13); and Juraj Valčuha, who has debuted with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and New York Philharmonic in recent seasons. Mei-Ann Chen, music director of the Chicago Sinfonietta and the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, makes her debut with the SFS in the Chinese New Year concert.

Debut artists appearing this season with the SFS include pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and violinist Alina Pogostnika. Singers include soprano Lydia Teuscher, mezzo-sopranosTamara Mumford and Jennifer Johnson-Cano;tenors Barry Banks, Michael Fabiano,and Andrew Stenson; baritone Andrey Breus;bass-baritones Andrew Foster-Williams and Michael Sumuel; and The Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble.

GREAT PERFORMERS SERIES
András Schiff, the Symphony’s Project San Francisco resident artist, performs Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier, Books 1 and 2; French Suites for Keyboard; and English Suites for Keyboard in a series of recitals throughout the season. His recital performances are co-presented by the San Francisco Symphony and San Francisco Performances.

In addition to the Schiff and Renée Fleming-Susan Graham recitals, also appearingas part of the Great Performers Series in 2012-13 are the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor Antoni Wit, making their San Francisco debut, with pianist Yulianna Avdeeva; the Russian National Orchestra with conductor Patrick Summers and pianist Daniil Trifonov; recitals with violinists Itzhak Perlman and Gil Shaham; and baritone Matthias Goerne in recital with Christoph Eschenbach on piano.

TOURS TO ASIA AND EAST COAST
In November 2012, the Orchestra makes its first concert appearances in Asia since 2006 in a three-week, seven-city tour. Visiting Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, and Tokyo, the Orchestra performs Mahler’s Symphony No. 5, Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2 (MTT last led the SFS in this work in SF in 2000); and works by John Adams, Henry Cowell, and Lou Harrison. Beijing-born pianist Yuja Wang joins the Orchestra on tour performing Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 2.

In March 2013, the Orchestra returns to New York’s Carnegie Hall for two concerts and one each in Newark and Washington, D.C. Repertoire includes Mahler’s Symphony No. 9, Brahms’s Symphony No. 1, the New York premiere of Samuel Carl Adams’s new work Drift and Providence, and Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 with Yuja Wang (in New York and Newark).

RECORDINGS
With a slate of new recordings and releases, the Orchestra’s recording series on its own SFS Media label continues to reflect the artistic identity of its programming, a commitment to the work of American maverick composers alongside that of the core classical masterworks. MTT and the SFS will record three works of pioneering American composers during the American Mavericks Festival in March 2012 for release next season: Lou Harrison’s Concerto for Organ with Percussion Orchestra featuring Paul Jacobs; Henry Cowell’s Piano Concerto with Jeremy Denk; and Carl Ruggles’ Sun-treader.

Also scheduled for release during the 2012-13 season is a recording of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Choral. In theirconcluding concerts togetherin the 2011-12 Centennial season, MTT leads the Orchestra and SFS Chorus in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9with soloists Erin Wall, Kendall Gladen, William Burden, and Nathan Berg.

During the Beethoven weeks in May 2013, MTT and the Orchestra’s performances of John Adams’ Absolute Jest with the St. Lawrence String Quartet will also be recorded for future release. Absolute Jest was inspired by and based on fragments of Beethoven’s scherzos for string quartets. Release dates for all recordings will be announced at a later date.

SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY MUSICIANS IN THE SPOTLIGHT
San Francisco Symphony principal musicians are featured in variety of solo turns with the Orchestra this season. Concertmaster Alexander Barantschik leads a program of Vivaldi, Bach, and Mozart and also performs as soloist; SFS piccolo player Catherine Payne and Associate Principal Oboe Jonathan D. Fischer are also featured soloists on the program.Barantschik and Principal Viola Jonathan Vinocour are featured in performances of Benjamin Britten’s Double Concerto in B minor for Violin and Viola, with Kirill Karabits on the podium. Principal Oboe William Bennett is the soloist in Richard Strauss’s Oboe Concerto, led by conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier.

The San Francisco Symphony Chorus is in the spotlight during eight weeksof the 2012-13 season. With MTT on the podium, they perform music from Grieg’s Peer Gynt, Beethoven’s Missa solemnis, the first SFS performances of Beethoven’sCantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II, andthe first concert performances by an orchestra of the complete Leonard Bernsteinmusic for West Side Story.Charles Dutoit leads the Chorusand Orchestrain Berlioz’s Te Deum and the first SFS performances of Poulenc’s Stabat mater, with soprano Erin Wall and tenor Paul Groves. The SFS Chorus performs with Vladimir Jurowski conducting the U.S. premiere of Levon Atoymyan’s arrangement of Prokofiev’s music from Ivan the Terrible with mezzo-soprano Larissa Diadkova and baritone Andrey Breus.The Chorus will also be featured in the first SFS performances of Handel’s Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day, led by Bernard Labadie. Chorus Director Ragnar Bohlin conducts the Chorus in Handel’s Messiah.

GREEN MUSIC CENTER SERIES& COLLEGE CAMPUS CONCERTS
In the 2012-13 season, the San Francisco Symphony begins a four-concert, Thursday evening series at the brand new Donald and Maureen Green Music Center on the campus of Sonoma State University.  With performances at the state-of-the-art, 1,400-seat Joan and Sanford I. Weill Hall, MTT leads the Orchestra in the U.S. premiere of Jörg Widmann’s new piano concerto with Yefim Bronfman and Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique in December, and Yuja Wang joins the Orchestra and Tilson Thomas for Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 in March. In January, Charles Dutoit leads the Orchestra with violinist James Ehnes in a program of Lalo, Ravel, and Elgar’s Enigma Variations, and in May, David Robertson, the Orchestra, and pianist Marc-André Hamelin perform Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and Ravel’s Piano Concerto in D for the Left Hand. Ravel’s La Valse and Elliott Carter’s Variations for Orchestra complete the program.

Other performances on college campuses around the Bay Area include a concert at the inaugural opening of the Bing Concert Hallat Stanford University in January 2013. The performancewill be “dormcast” across the entire Stanford campus. The Orchestra also performs two concerts at the Mondavi Center at the University of California at Davis. At UCD, MTT leads the Orchestra in a concert of Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 and Samuel Carl Adams’s Drift and Providence in September 2012 and SFS Conductor Laureate Herbert Blomstedt conducts Nielsen’s Symphony No. 5 and Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with Julia Fischer in April 2013.

SPECIAL CONCERTS
Special events of the San Francisco Symphony’s 101st season include its annualDía de los Muertos Community Concert; a Halloween film presentation of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari with Cameron Carpenter providing organ accompaniment; and the annual Chinese New Year concert and celebration with conductor Mei-Ann Chen.

The SFS offers its holiday season concerts in December, withfour performances of Handel’s Messiah with the SF Symphony Chorus led by Ragnar Bohlin; its annual performances of Prokofiev’s Peter & the Wolfwith the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra at Davies Symphony Hall and Flint Center in Cupertino, the Deck the Hall children’s concert and party, and the annual New Year’s Eve Masquerade Ball to welcome 2013. Also for kids, the SFS offers four Music for Families concerts beginning in December.

The Orchestra’s three-concert Organ Series for 2012-13 features Chelsea Chen making her debut at Davies Symphony Hall, andthe return of organists Paul Jacobs and Cameron Carpenter. The musicians of the SF Symphony perform both classical and contemporary repertoirein more intimate groups in two annual chamber music series, with six concerts at Davies Symphony Hall beginning October 14 and four at the Palace of the Legion of Honor.

The Orchestra offers its summer series of concerts, Summer & the Symphony, at Davies Symphony Hall in July 2013, with stars performing with the SFS and with their own groups, and a concert series devoted to classical masterworks.
The San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra performs three concerts under the direction of Wattis Foundation Music Director Donato Cabrera, beginning in November.

Complete programs and artists for all holiday and summer concerts will be announced at a later date.

PRESIDENT JOHN D. GOLDMAN TO STEP DOWN, SAKURAKO FISHER TO ASSUME ROLE IN FALL 2012
In October,John D. Goldman, President of the SFS since 2001, will step down, completing eleven years of distinguished accomplishments central to raising the artistic profile, expanding education programs, and strengthening the use of media and technology at the 100-year-old arts institution. SFS Vice President and President-Elect Sakurako Fisher will begin her term as President at the Orchestra’s Annual Meeting in October.  Goldman’s decade of accomplishments includes the current Centennial season celebration, and the completion of its Second Century campaign, Keeping Score multimedia project, 10-year Gustav Mahler recording project, and expansion of the Orchestra’s education programs.  Goldman, who remains on the Symphony’s board of directors, will be honored at Davies Symphony Hall in a public tribute concert in October, with performances by the Orchestra, Chorus, and SFS Youth Orchestra.

“It’s been the privilege of a lifetime to serve as President of the San Francisco Symphony,” said Goldman. “To lead this organization through a time of incredible growth and artistic success, working alongside the always-inspiring Michael Tilson Thomas and our exceptional Executive Director, Brent Assink, as well as the many committed donors, board and staff members who contribute their heart, vision, and soul to this organization. I am confident that Sako Fisher is clearly ready, willing, and able to lead the San Francisco Symphony into its next century.”

“John has been a close creative partner and friend for more than a decade, and his love of music and passion for the Orchestra is inspiring,” said Tilson Thomas.  “His vision and commitment for this Orchestra and for sustaining its future, both on stage and far beyond the walls of Davies Symphony Hall, has guided all of us. While he may be resigning as President, I’m sure his presence and his contributions will be felt and appreciated by all of us for a long time.”

“I’ve long admired John’s leadership and vision for not just championing the musicians’ incredible level of artistry but continuing to grow and broaden the reach and impact of their music,” said Sakurako Fisher.  “I’m deeply honored by the support of the San Francisco Symphony and my colleagues on the board. I’m excited to serve as the next President of this incredible, vibrant, and forward-thinking institution, and to work with everyone at the Symphony to reach even greater heights.”

Sakurako Fisher has been a member of the San Francisco Symphony’s Board of Governors since 1992 and is currently President-Elect, Vice President of the Board of Governors and Chair of the Development Steering Committee. Active in several arts-related and educational institutions, she serves on the National Board of the Smithsonian Institution as its vice chair and chairs its development committee. She also sits on the U.S. advisory boards for the Union Centrale des Arts et Decoratifs and the Centre Pompidou. Sakurako Fisher is an advisory board member of the Department of Humanities and Sciences and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford and also serves as trustee and former vice chair of development of the Thacher School in Ojai, California.  Twice chair of the board of ODC/Dance, Fisher has also served on the boards of Stern Grove and the Asian Art Museum Foundation and has recently completed a term as vice chair of the board of The Exploratorium.

MUSIC EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY CONCERTS
In its second century, the SF Symphony continues its commitment to bringing orchestral music and access to music to people at every age and life stage. The Symphony’s pioneering music education programs in San Francisco public schools make it possible for every student in grades 1-12 to experience music in the classroom. Its Adventures in Music program in San Francisco’s public schools reaches every first through fifth grader with a comprehensive music education program.TheInstrument Training and Support program, expanded in 2011-12, now offers substantial instrumental support for every San Francisco public middle and high school with amusic program. Through the SFS Youth Orchestra and performances on three college campuses, the SFS continues to offer connections to young adults. And for adults, the Symphony offers Community of Music Makers amateur music-making choral and instrumental workshops, giving people the opportunity to develop their musical skills onstage at Davies Symphony Hall with the support of the staff, musicians, and resources of the SF Symphony.

For musicians seeking rehearsal or performance partners, a new chamber musicians’ convening website is being developed with San Francisco Classical Voice (sfcv.org) for launch in 2012. Also, a new sfskids.org children’s music website is in development in conjunction with the University of California at Irvine Center for Computer Games and Virtual Worlds and will launch in 2012.

The San Francisco Symphony performs free and low-cost concerts throughout the year, to offer as many people as possible the opportunity to hear and experience orchestral music. The annual free fall concert at Justin Herman Plaza takes placein September, with MTT conducting the Orchestra. The Orchestra also performs its annual low-priced All-SF concert for children served by San Francisco’s community groups, low-cost Concerts for Kids,theMusic for Families series, and annual free summer concerts in the city parks.

ABOUT THE SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY
Founded in 1911 and celebrating its Centennial Season in 2011-12, the San Francisco Symphony (SFS) is widely considered to be among the country’s most artistically adventurous and innovative arts institutions. The Orchestra was established by a group of San Francisco citizens, music-lovers, and musicians in the wake of the 1906 earthquake, and played its first concert on December 8, 1911. Almost immediately, the Symphony revitalized the city’s cultural life. The Orchestra has grown in stature and acclaim under a succession of distinguished music directors: American composer Henry Hadley, Alfred Hertz (who had led the American premieres of Parsifal, Salome, and Der Rosenkavalier at the Metropolitan Opera), Basil Cameron, Issay Dobrowen, the legendary Pierre Monteux (who introduced the world to Le Sacre du printemps and Petrushka), Enrique Jordá, Josef Krips, Seiji Ozawa, Edo de Waart, Herbert Blomstedt (now Conductor Laureate), and current Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT). Led by Tilson Thomas, now in his seventeenth season as Music Director, the SFS presents more than 220 concerts annually for an audience of nearly 600,000 in its home of Davies Symphony Hall and through national and international tours.

Since Tilson Thomas assumed his post as the SFS’s eleventh Music Director in September 1995, he and the San Francisco Symphony have formed a musical partnership hailed as one of the most inspiring and successful in the country.  His tenure with the Orchestra has been praised for outstanding musicianship, innovative programming, highlighting the works of American composers, and bringing new audiences to classical music. In addition, the orchestra has been recognized nationally and internationally as a leader in music education and the use of multimedia, television, technology, and the web to make classical music available worldwide to as many people as possible.

In its Centennial season, the orchestra reprises its acclaimed American Mavericks Festival of music by pioneering modern American composers, featuring the world premieres of four commissioned works in two weeks of concerts at Davies Symphony Hall and on a two-week national tour, including four performances at Carnegie Hall. Itsannual Project San Francisco residencies focus on artists and composers in a variety of musical settings, and in 2011-12 spotlight violinist Joshua Bell and composer Mason Bates. The San Francisco Symphony regularly mounts special weeklong semi-staged productions with multimedia, and in the Centennial Season plans a week of music from early San Francisco, hosted and curated by MTT, in addition to performances given of semi-staged works by Debussy, Bartók, and Polaris, a new work from composer Thomas Adès, with video elements by artist Tal Rosner.

Since 1996, when Tilson Thomas led the Orchestra on the first of their more than a dozen national tours together, they have continued an ambitious yearly touring schedule that takes them to Europe, Asia and throughout the United States.  In May and June 2011, they made a three-week tour of Europe, culminating in Vienna performances of three Mahler symphonies to commemorate the anniversaries of the composer’s birth and death. Recent touring highlights also include a three-week 2011 European tour, and a 2006 Asian tour that included the Orchestra’s first appearances in mainland China.

Tilson Thomas and the Orchestra have recorded all nine of Gustav Mahler’s symphonies and the Adagio from the unfinished Tenth Symphony, and the composer’s works for voices, chorus, and orchestra for SFS Media. Their 2009 recording with the SFS Chorus of Mahler’s sweeping Symphony No. 8, Symphony of a Thousand, and the Adagio from Symphony No. 10 won three Grammy Awards, including Best Classical Album and Best Choral Performance. The San Francisco Symphony recently released its new recording of John Adams’ Harmonielehre and Short Ride in A Fast Machine, and has also recorded scenes from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet, a collection of Stravinsky ballets, a Gershwin collection, and Charles Ives: An American Journey, among others.  In addition to fourteen Grammy Awards, seven of them for the Mahler cycle, the SFS has won some of the world’s most prestigious recording awards, including Japan’s Record Academy Award and France’s Grand Prix du Disque.

Tilson Thomas and the SFS launched the national Keeping Score PBS television series and multimedia project in 2006, to help make classical music more accessible to people of all ages and musical backgrounds.  The project, an unprecedented undertaking among orchestras, is anchored by eight composer documentaries, hosted by Tilson Thomas, and eight live concert films, and includes www.keepingscore.org, an innovative website to explore and learn about music; a national radio series; documentary and live performance DVD and CDs; and an education program for K-12 schools to further teaching through the arts by integrating classical music into core subjects.To date, more than nine million people have seen the Keeping Score television series, and the Peabody Award-winning radio series has been broadcast on almost 100 stations nationally.

The San Francisco Symphony provides the most extensive education programs offered by any American orchestra today.  In 1988, the Symphony established Adventures in Music (AIM), a free, comprehensive music education program that reaches every first- through fifth-grade child in the San Francisco Unified School District. The SFS Instrument Training and Support program reaches all San Francisco public middle and high schools with instrumental music programs. In 2011-12, the Symphony expanded its educational offerings to include Community of Music Makers, a program that includes workshops with amateur choral and orchestral musicians, and supports musicians with professional coaching, rehearsals, and other learning opportunities. Also launching in 2012 is a revitalized children’s music education website www.sfskids.org, developed in conjunction with the UC Irvine Center for Computer Games and Virtual Worlds. The SFS also offers opportunities to hear and learn about great music through its programs Concerts for Kids, Music for Families, the internationally-acclaimed SFS Youth Orchestra, and annual free and community concerts.

2012-13 SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY
MAJOR INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS
The San Francisco Symphony is grateful for the support of its generous partners during the 2012-13 season:
Second Century Partners
Bank of America  Chevron, Inaugural Partner Wells Fargo

Major Corporate Partners
AT&T, City National Bank Emirates Airline Official Airline
Franklin Templeton Investments General Motors Foundation  J.P. Morgan Macy’s Foundation Tiffany & Co. McKesson  Morrison & Foerster LLP Pacific Gas & Electric Corporation Sybase, an SAP Company Visa  The Westin St. Francis Preferred Hotel William Hill Estate Winery Official Wine

Public Funders
San Francisco Arts Commission Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund National Endowment for the Arts

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What: Festival of Music, Dance & Drama

When: 7-13th March, 2012

Where: Kamani Auditorium and Meghdoot Theatre, Copernicus Marg, New Delhi 110001

Highlights: Kaushiki Desikan Hindustani Vocal with Suyog Kundalkar Harmonium, Yeleswarapu Srinivasulu, Kuchipudi, Ashutosh Upadhayay Pakhawaj, etc.

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