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October 11, 2024

DiMenna Center for Classical Music

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Dhrupad, the oldest living form of Indian classical music, has been practiced for at least twenty generations in the Dagar tradition (Dagar vani) by members of the Dagar family. In the twentieth century, Zia Mohiuddin Dagar revolutionized dhrupad by introducing its central instrument, the rudra veena—used for most of its history for accompaniment and private study—as a solo instrument for public listening. Zia Mohiuddin modified and redesigned the veena to produce a deep, soft sound created by finger plucking. His son, Ustad Mohi Bahauddin Dagar, is the world's leading performer of the rudra veena today. Born in Mumbai in 1970, he began studying sitar at age seven with his mother, Smt. Pramila Dagar, and later became a student of his father and his father’s brother, Zia Faridudin Dagar. Bahauddin has become acclaimed for his highly responsive playing style; expansive, prayerful sound; and commitment to dhrupad’s evolution and to Dagarvani’s engagement with European and American audiences, musicians and composers.

This performance is part of Bahauddin’s multi-year collaboration with FourOneOne, spanning rehearsals, master classes, publications, live performances, and cross-stylistic encounters with New York’s many audiences and creative communities. 

November 22–23, 2024

multiple venues

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This November, FourOneOne presents Transatlantik,  two days of performances and conversation with diasporic artists engaged with the artistic and political concepts of negritude and créolité: Aruán Ortiz’s Reimagining Tropiques: Then and Now ft. Anaïs Maviel and Aliya Ultan; Sélène Saint Aimé's Creole Songs; KāFOU (Val Jeanty and Cassie Watson Francillon); Renald St. Juste; and Patrick Chamoiseau, the Martinican author and theorist of créolité; plus an afterparty with Alexis Marcelo, DJ Buddy and DJ Jeff Brown. Transatlantik kicks off FourOneOne’s series of performances, discussions, and other public convenings exploring creolization, the fraught process of social, cultural, and linguistic mixing through the enforced cohabitation of racialized and subjugated peoples within the extractive contexts of slavery, colonialism and plantation societies. 

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