Concert of Pre-recorded Tapes of Pandit Pran Nath performing Afternoon & Evening Ragas w/ Live Commentary by La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela


Sunday, May 31, 2009, 4:00 pm

MELA Foundation Dream House
275 Church Street, 3rd Floor,
New York, NY 10013

Admission $16. MELA Members, Seniors, Student ID, $12

Limited seating. Reservations recommended.

212-219-3019 or 212-925-8270

In celebration of Pandit Pran Nath’s extraordinary life and work, MELA
Foundation presents a memorial tribute concert of the Master’s
pre-recorded tapes of Afternoon and Evening Ragas on Sunday, May 31,
2009 at 4:00 pm in the MELA Dream House, 275 Church Street, 3rd floor,
New York. The concert is curated by La Monte Young and Marian
Zazeela, who will present commentary on the music during the event.
The concert will continue for several hours.

For further information: mail@melafoundation.org

Here’s an event coming up this weekend that we’re sure many of our customers and friends will be interested in attending. Pandit Pran Nath was an Indian musical genius and introduced the Western world to the vocal tradition of North Indian classical music. A major influence on an entire generation of American, European, and Japanese minimalist composers in the early 70s, La Monte Young and Terry Riley entered a formal master/disciple relationship with Pandit Pran Nath that lasted until his death in 1996. If you haven’t heard his work, we can highly recommend these archival recordings of The Raga Cycle, which were recorded in Paris in 1972. As we wrote in the review: “It is not often that we’re able to say an album is unambiguously timeless, but have no doubt, this one is.”