SPRING 2008

Friday, April 18, 2008: CANCELLED
Concert with 'Raagees'

Thursday, April 24, 2008
Sitar and Tabla class performance
6 PM, Harnwell College House, Rooftop Lounge
6:00 Sitar Class
6:30 Tabla Class
7:00--Snacks--
7:15 Advanced Sitar group
Allyn Miner and Aqeel Bhatti, sitar and tabla
Free and open to all. Non-Penn Cardholders: please email your names to
Harnwell@pobox.upenn.edu and aminer@sas.upenn.edu with “Harnwell sitar concert” in the subject header by noon of April 23rd to be put on a guest list for access to performace venue.


FALL 2007
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Zakir Hussain, tabla and Rahul Sharma, santur

5 PM, Painted Bride 230 Vine St., Philadelphia

Saturday, November 10, 2007
Darbari Ensemble: Sarangi, Sitar, Tabla and Flute
8 PM, 2126 The Highway, Arden Gild Hall, Arden, Wilmington, DE 19810

Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Sougata Ganguly, sarod with Uttam Chakraborty, tabla
3 PM - 4:20 PM, Rm. 210 Music Annex (behind Music Building 201 S. 34th Street) Philadelphia

Guest artists visit the Performing Arts in South Asia class.
Sougata Ganguli, from Kolkata is an accomplished sarod player and is active in film and TV music. Accompanying him is Uttam Chakraborty also from Kolkata. They visit Penn as part of their U.S. tour.

Friday, September 28, 2007
Women and Indian Classical Music: A Roundtable Discussion
12 Noon - 2 PM, Irvine Auditorium, Room G7

Anuradha Pal, Mumbai

Allyn Miner, Department of South Asia Studies

Carol Muller, Music Department

Amanda Weidman, Bryn Mawr College
In conjunction with the visit of Anuradha Pal, India’s best known woman tabla player, we take the opportunity to have a loosely structured conversation about the place and experiences of women in the world of classical Indian music today.

Tabla and Sitar Concert

featuring Allyn Miner and Anuradha Pal, the world's only female professional tabla payer

8 PM, Amado Recital Hall, Irvine Auditorium
Anuradha Pal
“She has not just shattered the stereotypical image of women musicians but has established herself as the country's only woman tabla player who is pushing the dimensions with her experimentations …''

JANUARY 13 THROUGH MARCH 11, 2007

Arthur Ross Gallery exhibits

Modern Indian Works on Paper: Post-Independence Art from a Private Collection

Traveling exhibition features 64 modern and contemporary owned by Umesh and Sunanda Gaur, who were featured on the cover of the March 2003 Art and Antiques "Top 100 collectors" issue.
This exhibition is In collaboration with Professor Michael Meister, Department of the History of Art and support from the South Asia Center and Art History.