Musical Tour of Norton Simon Museum
Although the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena will be closed on Tuesday evening, Sept. 23, the faculty and guest performers of the Pasadena Conservatory of Music will roam through the museum taking a special musical tour through three of the museum’s galleries.
The program, which will begin at 7 p.m., is designed as a chance to link the museum’s renowned collections of Asian and 20th-century art with music of the era the art was created or exemplifies.
Among the outstanding musicians selected by the Pasadena Conservatory to perform the music are Abhijit Bannerjee, tabla; Pedro Eustache, flute; Peter Jacobson, cello; Dave Lewis, drums; Paul Livingstone, sitar; Liticia Meza, tanpura; Somnath Roy, ghatum; Partho Sarathy, sarod; James Sullivan, clarinet; Susan Svercek, piano; and Shalini Vijayan, violin.
Beverly Lafontaine, marketing director at the Conservatory says the tour will be directed through time and place—from East to West—. “The tour opens with a quartet performing classical Indian ragas on the sitar, sarod, tabla and tanpura,” she announced.
“It continues with contemporary compositions inspired by the Indian subcontinent performed on the piano, violin and clarinet and concludes with a fusion of raga, jazz and world music idioms performed on indigenous and classical instruments.”
The Pasadena Conservatory of Music is an independent non-profit school whose mission is to educate, advocate, inspire and share its interest in music with the community.
Tickets for this special event are $150 and include a champagne reception by Patina following the performance. Reservations are required. For information, please call (626) 683-3355.
by Bill Peters
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