Please turn off all electronic Photography and audio/video recording devices before entering the in the performance hall are prohibited. performance hall. Zakir Hussain & Rahul Sharma JIM MCGUIRE DEPARTMENT OF These performances are made possible in part by: PERFORMING ARTS, MUSIC, The P. J. McMyler Musical Endowment Fund AND FILM The Ernest L. and Louise M. Gartner Fund The Cleveland Museum of Art The Anton and Rose Zverina Music Fund 11150 East Boulevard The Frank and Margaret Hyncik Memorial Fund Cleveland, Ohio 44106–1797 The Adolph Benedict and Ila Roberts Schneider Fund The Arthur, Asenath, and Walter H. Blodgett Memorial Fund [email protected] The Dorothy Humel Hovorka Endowment Fund cma.org/performingarts The Albertha T. Jennings Musical Arts Fund #CMAperformingarts Programs are subject to change. Series sponsors: Wednesday, April 12, 2017 TICKETS 1–888–CMA–0033 cma.org/performingarts Welcome to the Cleveland PerformingZakir Hussain, Arts tabla Museum of Art cma.org/performingartsWith The Cleveland Museum of Art’s performing arts series #CMAperformingarts brings together thoughtful, fascinating, and beautiful Rahul Sharma, santoor experiences, comprising a concert calendar notable for CIM/CWRU Joint Music Program Oberlin Contemporary Music its boundless multiplicity. This year we look forward to Wednesday, October 5, 6:00 Ensemble Sunday, February 26, 2:00 visits from old friends and new, bringing us music from FretworkWednesday, April 12, 2017, 7:30 p.m. around the globe and spanning many centuries. Here Wednesday,Gartner Auditorium, October 12, 7:30 the Cleveland MuseumCIM/CWRU of Joint Art Music Program Wednesday, March 1, 6:00 is the place where performance is intended to explore Vijay Iyer with International connections of cultures, the heart, the human spirit. Contemporary Ensemble CIM Organ Studio Wednesday, October 19, 7:30 Sunday, March 12, 2:00 In the Galleries CIM/CWRUPROGRAM Joint Music Program Quince Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks Wednesday, November 2, 6:00 Wednesday, March 22, 7:30 Through April 23 OberlinTonight’s Contemporary program Music is presented withoutFrode intermission Haltli & Emilia and Amper Ensemble Wednesday, March 29, 7:30 African Master Carvers: Known and Famous Saturday,will be Novemberapproximately 5, 2:00 90 minutes in duration. CIM/CWRU Joint Music Program Through July 16 Jean-Baptiste Monnot Wednesday, April 5, 6:00 Sunday, November 13, 2:00 Black in America: Louis Draper and Leonard Freed Oberlin Contemporary Music Through July 30 Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble Ensemble Sunday, April 9, 2:00 Opulent Fashion in the Church Sunday, December 4, 2:00 Through September 24 Zakir Hussain & Rahul Sharma CIM/CWRU Joint Music Program Wednesday, April 12, 7:30 Wednesday, December 7, 6:00 Cutting Edge: Modern Prints from Atelier 17 Jeffrey Zeigler Through August 13 Francesco D’Orazio Wednesday, April 26, 7:30 Friday, December 9, 7:30 Brand-New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s CIM/CWRU Joint Music Program April 30–August 6 The Crossing: Wednesday, May 3, 6:00 David Lang’s Lifespan Friday–Sunday, January 6–8 Brandee Younger & Courtney Bryan Wednesday, May 10, 7:30 The “Qatsi” Trilogy Friday–Sunday, January 27–29 CIM/CWRU Joint Music Program Wednesday, February 1, 6:00 Emmanuel Arakélian Please turn off all electronic devices before entering Sunday, February 19, 2:00 the performance hall. Photography and audio/video recording in the performance hall are prohibited. ABOUT THE ARTISTS Sangeet Natak Akademi Award by the President of India, making him one of the youngest musicians to receive this recognition from India’s governing cultural institute. Zakir Hussain In 2007, readers’ polls from both Modern Drummer and Zakir Hussain is today appreciated both in the field Drum! magazines named him Best World Music and Best of percussion and in the music world at large as an Worldbeat Drummer respectively. On February 8, 2009, international phenomenon and one of the greatest Zakir received a Grammy in the Best Contemporary musicians of our time. A classical tabla virtuoso of the World Music category for Global Drum Project, his group highest order, his consistently brilliant and exciting with Mickey Hart, Giovanni Hidalgo, and Sikiru Adepoju. performances have established him as a national treasure Also, in 2009, Zakir was named an Officer in the Order in his own country, India, and as one of India’s reigning of Arts and Letters by France’s Ministry of Culture and cultural ambassadors. Along with his legendary father Communication for his extraordinary artistic and cultural and teacher, Ustad Allarakha, he has elevated the status contribution. The Downbeat Critics’ Poll named him Best of his instrument both in India and around the world. His Percussionist in 2012. playing is marked by uncanny intuition and masterful A child prodigy, Zakir was touring by the age of twelve. improvisational dexterity, founded in formidable knowledge He came to the United States in 1970, performing his and study. first USA concert at the Fillmore East in New York City Widely considered a chief architect of the contemporary with Pandit Ravi Shankar, embarking on an illustrious world music movement, Zakir’s contribution to world international career. A prolific composer and recording music has been unique, with many historic collaborations, artist, Zakir has received widespread recognition for his including Shakti, which he founded with John McLaughlin many ensembles and collaborations. In 1987, his first solo and L. Shankar, Remember Shakti, the Diga Rhythm Band, release, Making Music, was acclaimed as “one of the most Making Music, Planet Drum with Mickey Hart, Tabla Beat inspired East-West fusion albums ever recorded.” In 1992, Science, Sangam with Charles Lloyd and Eric Harland, and Planet Drum, an album co-created and produced by Zakir recordings and performances with artists as diverse as and Mickey Hart, became the first recording to win a George Harrison, YoYo Ma, Joe Henderson, Van Morrison, Grammy in the Best World Music category, the Downbeat Airto Moreira, Pharoah Sanders, Billy Cobham, Mark Critics’ Poll for Best World Beat Album, and the NARM Morris, Rennie Harris, and the Kodo drummers. His music Indie Best Seller Award for World Music Recording. and extraordinary contribution to the music world were Zakir received the distinct honor of co-composing the honored in April, 2009, with four widely-heralded and sold- opening music for the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, 1996. out concerts at Carnegie Hall’s Artist Perspective series. He was commissioned to compose music for Alonzo The recipient of countless honors, Zakir has received the King’s Lines Ballet (for which he received an Isadora titles of Padma Bhushan, in 2002, and Padma Shri, in 1988, Duncan Award), and to compose an original work for the becoming the youngest percussionist to be awarded these, San Francisco Jazz Festival, both in 1998. He has received given to civilians of merit, by the Indian government. numerous grants, including participation in the Meet In 1990, he was awarded the Indo-American Award in the Composer programs funded by the Pew Memorial recognition for his outstanding cultural contribution to Trust. In 2000, Zakir worked again with choreographer 4 USA-India relations. In April 1991, he was presented with the 5 Alonzo King, this time composing music for the Alvin Zakir is the recipient of the 1999 National Heritage Ailey American Dance Theater. In 2002, his commissioned Fellowship, the United States’ most prestigious honor work for choreographer Mark Morris’ “Kolam” premiered for a master in the traditional arts, presented by First as part of Yo-Yo Ma’s “Silk Road Project” with Yo-Yo Ma Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton at the United States Senate and Zakir performing Zakir’s composition live for the on September 28, 1999. In 2005, he was named an Old performance. In September 2006, Triple Concerto for Dominion Fellow by the Humanities Council at Princeton Banjo, Bass and Tabla, a piece co-composed by Zakir, University, where he resided for the 2005–2006 autumn Edgar Meyer, and Bela Fleck, was performed by them semester as full professor in the music department, with the Nashville Symphony at the gala opening of the teaching a survey course in Indian classical music and Schermerhorn Symphony Hall in Nashville. In January, dance. In the spring of 2007, this course was taught 2009, it was re-created with the Detroit Symphony, again again by Zakir, this time at Stanford University. Zakir’s under the baton of Leonard Slatkin. This performance yearly tabla workshop in Marin County, conducted and new original works composed by Zakir, Edgar, and for the past twenty years, draws hundreds of serious Bela, was released as the Grammy-nominated The Melody students and performers. In the spring of 2015, he was of Rhythm in 2009. Zakir’s second concerto, Concerto in residence at UC Berkeley as Regents Lecturer. for Four Soloists, a special commission for the National In 1992, Zakir founded Moment! Records which features Symphony Orchestra, was performed at Kennedy Center in original collaborations in the field of contemporary March, 2011, conducted by Christoph Eschenbach. His third world music and live concert performances by great concerto, the first-ever tabla concerto, will be premiered in masters of the classical music of India. The label September, 2015, by the Symphony Orchestra of India, was presents live recordings of great masters of the classical premiered in Europe in January 2016 and will premiere in music of both North and South India, world music, and the United States in April, 2017, by the National Symphony a Masters of Percussion series. Moment! Records’ 2006 Orchestra. release, Golden Strings of the Sarode with Aashish Khan Zakir reunited with Alonzo King in 2007, for Lines and Zakir Hussain, was nominated for a Grammy in the Ballet’s 25th anniversary celebration, creating acclaimed Best Traditional World Music category for that year.