NCPA Present NCPA Bandish Festival of Legendary Composers, 7/9-11

National Centre for the Performing Arts presents "NCPA Bandish - Festival of Legendary Composers" from July 9th to the 11th. Composers include Tansen, Amir Khusrau, Adarang-Sadarang, Rahim, Raskhan, and Muthuswami Dikshitar. The three-day festival will be held at the NCPA - Tata Theatre at NCPA Marg, Nariman Point, Mumbai.

Indian music, be it art, semi-classical, light, folk, devotional or popular music, centers on well-structured melodic and rhythmic compositions also known as bandish. It represents a central idea or base upon which the edifice of the performance is sculpted and realised. A "bandish" is that which is bound, encased and pre-composed in a sense. It is used in the context of vocal or instrumental music. The bandishes of the legendary composers will be presents by artists such as Umakant and Ramakant Gundecha, Ulhas Kashalkar, Bombay Jayashri, Shekhar Sen and Shujaat Hussain Khan. This festival will give Mumbai audiences a chance to listen to compositions of both Hindustani and Carnatic musicians.

Tickets are Rs. 500, 300, 200, 100 (each day). There is a 25% discount to NCPA Members and to students of schools and colleges against production of valid identity cards. To buy tickets, visit www.bookmyshow.com. For a complete schedule, please visit the NCPA website: http://www.ncpamumbai.com

Inaugurated in 1969, the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai, exists to provide leadership on a national level as India?s premier performing arts, research and training centre through the presentation of Indian and international art forms, the promotion of excellence and the preservation of Indian & International cultural heritage.