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Carnatic Keyboard
Concert: 09 Jun 2007 -- 8:00 PM
Presented by: AllahrakkaRahman
Public:
Sears Centre, Hoffman Estates, Chicago, Illinois
Chicago -- USA
http://www.google.com/musica?aid=PDmYqpBbUbM&sa=X&oi=music&ct=result

A R Rahman, award-winning composer/vocalist/keyboardist, played to sold-out arenas in North America this summer with his 3rd Dimension Tour, a 3.5 hour show performed in three languages and demonstrating the composer's mastery of a broad range of musical styles. Audiences in Chicago and Toronto were treated to a tantalizing glimpse of something new when Rahman performed a short solo of Carnatic music on Continuum fingerboard (controlling Kyma). Rahman, who is classically trained in both Carnatic and western musical traditions said that, as a child, he loved playing the keyboard but at the same time he found it frustrating not to be able to produce the microtonal tuning and ornaments of Indian classical music on a standard 12-tone keyboard. His dream is to inspire kids to continue the classical tradition by combining the world of digital audio with that of classical Carnatic music.

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