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[Postponed] Bahauddin Dagar
October 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The DiMenna Center, Cary Hall
This event has been postponed. Ustad Bahauddin Dagar is the world’s leading performer of the rudra veena today and the torchbearer of the Dagar vani style of dhrupad, the oldest living form of Indian classical music. FourOneOne is honored to present an afternoon performance as part of our ongoing multi-year collaboration with Bahauddin. Since 2023, this collaboration has spanned rehearsals, master classes, publications, live performances, and other forms of cross-stylistic exchange with New York’s many audiences and creative communities. Marking Ustad Dagar’s first return to New York since 2001, the project reconceives the living connection between Dagarvani dhrupad and New York-based audiences and artists, emphasizing social context, history and the creative lives of communities over virtuosity, individual genius, and technique.
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Dave Burrell
October 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Brooklyn Public Library (Dweck Auditorium)
Pianist, composer, and improvisor Dave Burrell’s life’s work spans almost all facets of jazz and its history, from blues, ragtime, stride, and bebop to the “fire music” he helped sculpt in the 1960s. The richness of his sixty-year career—channeling the energy of the Civil Rights Movement through the landmark album Echo (1969), performing at Attica the year after its Prison Uprisings, seeking the influence of vodou ceremonies in Port-au-Prince, and on over one hundred recordings, including thirty under his own name—reflects his singular ability to connect voices and histories across musical genres and generations. For Burrell, tradition is a living, embodied dialogue between past and future, a study in dissolving musical binaries of “inside” and “out.” Free with RSVP.
