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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2017 - One Hundred and Twenty-Third Season - Prom 41 - LATE NIGHT - Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar
Performance Date15 August 2017
Performance DayTuesday
Performance Time22:20
Main PerformersAnoushka Shankar - sitar
Secondary PerformersGaurav Muzumdar - sitar,
Ameen Ali Khan - sarod,
Nick Able - tanpura,
Ravichandra Kular - bansuri, vocal,
Pirashanna Thevarajah - ghatam, kanjira, morsing,
M Balachandar - mridangam,
Sanju Sahai - tabla,
Alexa Mason - vocal
Orchestra or BandBritten Sinfonia
ConductorsKaren Kamensek
Set List'Passages', R Shankar, P Glass
Performance NotesIn the mid-1960s a rising star of Western classical music met the ‘Godfather’ of the Indian classical tradition. The result was a collision of musical worlds and – some 25 years later – a studio album that combined Glass’s American Minimalism with Shankar’s sitar and the traditions of Hindustani classical music.

A hypnotic flow of sound, blending cello, saxophone and other Western instruments with the glittering pulse of the sitar, Passages is presented here in its first complete live performance.
The Britten Sinfonia and Karen Kamensek are joined by Shankar’s daughter, sitar virtuoso Anoushka Shankar.

There was no interval.
The event was broadcast on BBC Four on 18 August 2017.

Proms debut from Karen Kamensek.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2017/47a),
Programme (RAHE/1/2017/),
Mini Guide (RAHE/6/2017/36),
Handbill (RAHE/6/2017/37),
Posters (RAHE/2/2017/27-28)
Ticket Prices£6-£25.00
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/EwE8fiE0uIxrS
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2017/86BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2017 - One Hundred and Twenty-Third Season - Prom 41 - LATE NIGHT - Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar15 August 2017
RAHE/6/2017/36BBC Proms - Late Night Greats at the BBC Proms25 July-7 September 2017
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work10965BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2017 - One Hundred and Twenty-Third Season75
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/21241Shankar; Anoushka (1981-); Indian sitar player, composer
DS/UK/1422Britten Sinfonia; 1992-; English chamber orchestra ensemble
DS/UK/21597Kamensek; Karen (1970-); American orchestral and opera conductor
DS/UK/21924Sahai; Sanju (fl.1990s); Indian tabla player
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