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One of India’s foremost jazz pianists, Madhav Chari has a very strong presence in the international music world. He has performed with renowned musicians Chico Freeman, Jeanie Bryson, Tim Ries, Ray Spiegel, Ira Colman, Carlos Gomez, Herbie Hancock and Ron Blake. His passion for jazz music ignited at the age of 12, Chari’s improvisations with sounds make his music truly connect with listeners. This evening, Chari will perform The Great American Songbook, in a tribute to American composers such as Gershwin, Cole Porter, Thelonius Monk et al. Comprising a vast repertoire of songs that were originally composed by these music greats in 1920s and 1930s for Broadway musicals, his presentation sums up the fundamentals of jazz music. Also featuring Blues melodies, which has influenced and has been influenced by jazz music over the last 100 years. Hosted jointly by Calcutta School of Music and Public Affairs Office, US Consulate, Calcutta.
Event: Piano recital of jazz numbers presented by Madhav Chari When: Today at 7 pm Where: Sandre Hall, Calcutta School of Music
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art
Till June 21 at Chitrakoot Art Gallery, 55 Gariahat Road, #2475 2275; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of paintings by M. Narayanan Namboodiri.
Till June 21 at the Museum & Art Gallery of Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Gol Park; 10.30 am - 1 pm & 2.30 pm - 6 pm: Exploring the Unexplored — Artists of 20th Century Bengal, an exhibition of the works of those artists who had made substantial contribution to the development of art in India but had not received due recognition.
Till June 22 at Chitrakoot Art Gallery, 55 Gariahat Road, #2475 2275; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of paintings by Sujit Kumar Ghosh, Ranjan Mitra, Biswarup Halder, Anirban Seth, Sudipta Tewary and Apurba Biswas.
Till June 22 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture; 4 pm - 8 pm: MAC presents Bonded Friendship, the 24th group exhibition of paintings, drawings and sculptures. Participating artists: Ramananda Bandyopadhyay, Wasim R. Kapoor, Samir Aich, Partha Pratim Deb, Ram Kumar Manna, Balu Sadalge, Sheila Kapoor, Sukla Bhattacharya, Sangita Paul, Shalini Chanda, Shyamali Haldar and others.
Till June 22 at Starmark, South City Mall; 11 am - 8 pm: Art on Display — an exhibition of sculptures by Soumen Das and patachitra by award-winning artist Bijay Parida.
Till June 22 at The Promenade Lounge, Taj Bengal; 10 am - 11 pm: A solo exhibition of Munmun Das’ recent work. The artist will be painting live from 3 pm to 6 pm.
Till June 22 at Academy of Fine Arts, North Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of the works by Ashok Roy Karmakar, Puspen Roy, Chandan Sengupta, Dhiraj Roy, Susanta Chowdhury, Subrata Saha, Biswa Basu, Panajit Adhikary, Prabir Mondal, Sujit Das, Subrata Paul and Arun Mondal.
Till June 22 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture, 4th floor; 4 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of paintings by father and son Kshudiram Maity and Sumitava Maity.
Till June 23 at Academy of Fine Arts, New South (B) Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: Colour Jugglers presents an exhibition of contemporary works by Prasanna Chaudhuri, Subhabrata Bose, Sudipta Dutta and Utpal Dutta.
Till June 23 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of paintings by Sukumar Bhattacharjee and Arati Bhattacharjee.
Till June 26 at Samokal Art Gallery, Gol Park; #98362 76110; 4 pm - 8 pm: The 36th group exhibition of Painters ’80. Participating artists: Alik Das, Amit Chakrabarti, Amitava Dhar, Bhabatosh Sutar, Dipankar Dutta, Debasish Chakraborty, Pradosh Paul, Tarun Dey and Tanmoy Biswas.
Till June 28 at Tejas Art Gallery, 11 Mayfair Road, #98300 49825; 1 pm - 7.30 pm: Summer Workshop: Acrylic and charcoal works, inspired by the Bengal countryside, by Dhiren Sasmal, Ashok Ganguly, Arunava Mondol, Biswarup Garai, Avijit Mukherjee, Tarun Chakravorty, Malay Chandan Saha, Debasish Sen Gupta and Subrata Sen.
Till June 30 (except Sundays) at Akar Prakar, P 238 Hindustan Park; 2 pm - 7 pm: Faces of Feminine Expressions from Bangladesh — an exhibition of paintings by artists from Bangladesh. Participants: Nazlee Laila Mansur, Farida Zaman, Nasreen Begum, Rokeya Sultana, Dilara Begum Jolly, Murshida Arzu Alpana, Kanak Chanpa Chakma, Tayeba Begum Lipi, Atia Islam Anne and Shulekha Choudhury.
Till June 30 at Gallery 79, 79 Raja Basanta Roy Road, 1st floor: Transparent watercolour specialist Shyamal Sen and upcoming artist Chhanda Singh unveil their latest creations in an exhibition, titled Different Strokes.
Till July 3 (weekdays only) at Kanvas Art Gallery, 53 Syed Amir Ali Avenue, Shivam Chamber, 2nd floor, #98318 21507; 3 pm - 7 pm: Colorscapes — magical brushstrokes by Sanjib Roy.
Till July 5 (except Sundays & public holidays) at CIMA Gallery, Sunny Towers, 43 Ashutosh Chowdhury Avenue, #2485 8717/8509; Mondays: 3 pm - 7 pm, Tuesdays - Saturdays: 2 pm - 7 pm: Summer Show featuring works by Jayasri Burman, Rashmi Bagchi Sarkar, Rameshwar Broota, Jogen Chowdhury, Rini Dhumal, Ramendra Nath Kastha, Paresh Maity, Uday Mondal, Santosh More, Rm. Palaniappan, Manu Parekh, Ganesh Pyne, Malay Saha, Dilip Kumar Samanta, Kingshuk Sarkar, Shambhavi, Lalu Prosad Shaw, Mayank Kumar Shyam, Sanjeev Sonpimpare and others.
Till July 31 at Idiyas Gallery, 15 Dover Road, #6550 8418; 11 am - 7 pm: In the Realms of Fantasy, — works by Sanatan Dinda, Prokash Karmakar, Suhas Roy, Subrata Gangopadhyay, Sibsaday, Samir Paul, Subrata Pal, Gouran-go Beshai, Bratin Khan, Kamalaksha Gangopadhyay, Ramananda Bandyopadhyay and others.
DRAMA
June 21 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm: Naba Mayukh Nattya Sangstha presents Gopichand, directed by Rishi Mukhopadhyay.
June 21 at Birla Academy; 6 pm: Kasba Arghya will stage its latest production, Kalidasa’s Meghadutam, in Sanskrit, under the guidance of K.N. Pannikar, who has also composed the music. The play will be preluded by an interesting deliberation and slide show by Dr Tarun Kumar Biswas on a number of paintings by Sailendranath Dey and Abanindranath Tagore on the same verses of Kalidasa.
June 21 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6 pm: Nehru Children’s Museum presents a full-length drama Saraswati Samipeshu, performed by its students and directed by Ramaprasad Banik.
June 21 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Buddhadeva Bose’s Kal-Sandhya — Bohurupee’s latest production, directed by Kumar Roy.
June 21 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: Sudrak will stage Sahaj Swajan.
June 21 at Sujata Sadan; 6.30 pm: Swapnasandhani presents Hargoj, directed by Koushik Sen.
June 22 at Rabindra Sadan; 6.30 pm: Natadha presents Palashi. Drama & direction: Shib Mukhopadhyay.
June 22 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Lok-Krishti presents Page 4, It’s Also a Game. Drama, direction & acting: Bratya Basu.
June 22 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Aneek will stage its latest production, Adventure Kaare Koy. Drama: Amalesh Chakraborty. Direction: Moloy Biswas.
June 22 at Mukta Angan Rangalaya; 6.30 pm: Shouvanik presents Fakka, directed by Chandan Das.
June 22 at Sisir Mancha; 6.30 pm: Howrah Dakshinayan will stage Hawa Badal. Drama & direction: Kunal Mukhopadhyay.
June 22 at Padatik’s Buildwell Theatre, 6/7 AJC Bose Road; 7 pm: Little Thespian presents Katha Collage-3, consisting of two of Tagore’s short stories to be presented in two languages. Featuring Shesher Ratri (Bengali) and Duraasha (Urdu). Design & direction: Uma Jhunjhunwala.
June 23 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Theatron presents Buddhadeva Bose’s Nepathya Natak.
TALK
June 21 at Ramakrishna Mission Saradapitha, Belur Math; 6 pm: Swami Girishananda will speak on Swami Sishya Sambad.
June 21 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Vivekananda Hall; 6 pm: Satchidananda Dhar will speak in Bengali on Shiksha— Devatver Vikash.
June 21 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, 19B Raja Rajkrishna Street; 7 pm: Swami Paramatmananda will speak in Bengali on Shiksha, Samaj O Dharma.
June 21 at Ramakrishna Math, Baranagar; 7.15 pm: Discourse on Swami Shishya Sambad by Swami Satprabhanandaji Maharaj.
PERFORMING ARTS
June 21 at Kshudiram Anushilan Kendra; 2 pm: Banglar Bratachari Samiti presents a programme of Bratachari and folk dances to mark the 127th birth anniversary of Gurusaday Dutta.
June 21 at Oxford Bookstore, 17 Park Street; 5.30 pm: Music Mocktails — performnace and discussion on Bangla Gaan: The Road Ahead. Participants: Pramita Mallick, Nipobeethi Ghosh, Sidhartha (Cactus), RJ Neel, Ratul Shankar and Parambrata Chatterjee.
June 22 at 8 Sultan Alam Road, ground floor, behind Rabindra Sarobar Metro Rail station; 6 pm: Ranan presents vocal music by Vandana Alase Hazra and Nageen Tanvir, Kathak dance by students of Debashree Bhattacharya, and poetry by Anjum Katyal.
June 22 at Rabindra Okakura Bhavan, near Salt Lake City Centre; 6.30 pm: An evening of Bengali songs by Alak Roychoudhury.
SEMINAR
June 21 at Manmatho Nath Uchcho Bidyalaya, Barrackpore; 6 pm: Pratikriti theatre group hosts a seminar on From Literature to Theatre and Films. Speakers: Chandan Sen, Amal Chakraborty, Haro Bhattacharya, Ujjwal Chattopadhyay and Nabyendu Chatterjee. Moderator: Aalok Deb.
PHOTOGRAPHS
Till June 28 (except Mondays) at Bose-Pacia, Stephen Court, 18 Park Street; 11 am - 7 pm: Minutes to Midnight, an exhibition of photographs by Trent Parke.
READING
June 22 at G.D. Birla Sabhagar; 11 am: Professor P. Lal reads Sanjaya's report of Duryodhana desperately trying to rally the disheartened Kauravas after Arjuna kills Karna, and Salya describing the carnage, in the 430th weekly session of his sloka-by-sloka English transcreation of Vyasa's Mahabharata.All those who wish events to be included in this column should write not less than a week ahead to: Time out, The Telegraph, 6, Prafulla Sarkar Street, Calcutta-700 001; Fax: 2234-8244
All those who wish events to be included in this column should write not less
than a week ahead to:
Time out, The Telegraph, 6, Prafulla Sarkar Street, Calcutta-700 001;
Fax: 2234-8244
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