Symposium and Concert at King's College London
'Wild but pleasing when understood': Hindustani airs and cultural translation
Friday 18 May 2012, 15.00 - 18.00
Inigo Rooms, Somerset House East Wing, Strand Campus, Strand, London WC2R 2LS
Convenor: Jane Chapman
This symposium will take William Hamilton Bird's Oriental miscellany (1789) - the first published collection of Indian music transcribed from live performance into Western notation and adapted for harpsichord - as a starting point for examining art, culture, and music and dance performance practice in late18th and early 19th century India. Introducing the Hindustani air as a locus of Enlightenment thinking, it will explore the genre's meaning as an embodiment of contemporary political, philosophical and anthropological attitudes.
Free entry but please reserve a place in advance by contacting [log in to unmask] (tel 020 7848 1843).
Symposium programme
Symbol of the Enlightenment: the Hindustani air as politics, philosophy and anthropology. Professor Bennett Zon (University of Durham)
Lucknow: a rich cultural city 1775-1856. Dr Rosie Llewellyn-Jones
Tea
Time and tune in Hindoostan, circa 1800. Professor James Kippen (University of Toronto)
Wounding eyelashes and wanton smiles: recreating women's dance practice from 18th and 19th century North India. Dr Margaret Walker (Queen's University)
Fairies, cypresses and cupbearers: the Persian and Urdu texts in Sophia Plowden's album. Dr Katherine Butler Schofield (King's College London)
The Oriental miscellany: notation and beyond - interpretation and performance. Jane Chapman and Mohammad Yusuf Mahmoud
'The Oriental miscellany'
Friday 18 May 2012
19.30
The Chapel, King's College London, Strand Campus, Strand, London WC2R 2LS
An evening recital recreating some of the original Indian vocal music from The Oriental miscellany using Persian and Urdu texts, accompanied by sarangi, tabla and tambura, with arrangements (Hindustani airs) for harpsichord and baroque flute.
Free entry, no reservation required
Performers
Mohammad Yusuf Mahmoud - voice
Jane Chapman - harpsichord
Surgeet Singh Aulakh - sarangi
Yu-Wei Hu - baroque flute
Amardeep Singh Sari - tabla
Katherine Butler Schofield - tambura
Information: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/archivespec/engagement/Artistinresidence.aspx
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