UCLA’s Centre for the Art of Functionality (CAP UCLA) presents an night-size effectiveness featuring Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain and Edgar Meyer’s As We Speak at Royce Hall on Saturday, November 18 at 8 pm. As We Speak showcases the amazing versatility of virtuoso musicians collaborating throughout solely various musical realms — bluegrass for Fleck, Indian classical music for Hussain and Western classical new music for Meyer. Rakesh Chaurasia, a grasp of the bansuri, an Indian bamboo flute, provides to the magic. Tickets get started at $39 and are readily available now at Click Here or 310-825-2101.
As We Discuss, the quartet’s newest album unveiled in May possibly of 2023, exhibits the group’s techniques as instrumentalists and covers a broad assortment of musical influences. The group, with Fleck on the banjo, Hussain on the tabla and Meyer on the bass, gives Indian rhythm and funk with Chaurasia signing up for on the flute. The effectiveness will incorporate improvisation that covers just about every artist’s several musical genres.
Fleck commenced his profession with the bluegrass group New Grass Revival. He fashioned the Flecktones, celebrating its 46th anniversary this year, a musical team whose repertoire ranged from fusion to Bach. In addition, he performed jazz with Chick Corea, American roots with his husband or wife, banjoist Abigail Washburn, wrote concertos for banjo and orchestra and produced a documentary film and album, Throw Down Your Heart, that examined the banjo’s African roots. Fleck has gained 16 Grammys across 10 classes in his profession.
Hussain is appreciated as just one of the world’s most esteemed musicians and a master of his percussion instrument, the tabla. Accompanying India’s greatest musicians and dancers from his early many years, Hussain has been a aspect of numerous collaborations including Shakti, Don’t forget Shakti, Masters of Percussion, Diga, Tabla Beat Science, CrossCurrents, Sangam and Grammy-award winners Planet Drum and Global Drum Challenge. A composer and educator, Hussain is the receiver of many honors, most recently the 2022 Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy, the 2022 Aga Khan Songs Award for Lifetime Accomplishment and in January 2023, the title of Padma Vibhushan, India’s 2nd optimum civilian award.
Explained by The New Yorker as “the most impressive virtuoso in the rather un-chronicled heritage of his instrument,” double bassist and composer Meyer is experienced in a wide range of musical models. A MacArthur Fellow and Avery Fisher Prize winner, he is most knowledgeable in classical new music, doing regular functions and his initial solo, chamber and orchestral items. His 30-12 months partnership with cellist Yo-Yo Ma has generated seven recordings and his upcoming assignments include a duo recording with jazz bassist Christian McBride and a recording of all 4 of his concertos with the Knights and the Scottish Ensemble, made by Chis Thile.
Signing up for the group at Royce Hall is Chaurasia, a master of the tactics of Indian classical songs. A composer as perfectly as flutist, he has published and carried out on various Indian motion picture soundtracks and in 2007 was awarded the Indian Tunes Academy Award.
The CAP UCLA 2023 slide systems continue on December 2 with Alarm Will Seem joined by visitor artists Nathalie Joachim and Alyssa Pyper at The Nimoy.
ARTISTS:
Béla Fleck – Banjo
Zakir Hussain – Tabla
Edgar Meyer – Bass
Rakesh Chaurasia – Bansuri
