concerted information

Dear All,
I hope you will all be glad to hear about (and attend) one or both of these
concerts in NYC later this month.
If you don't live within manageable distance of NYC do please let local
friends know about it.
This collaboration with Lisa has been a great, joyful and spiritual
exhiliration since we first began working together last year.

good wishes to:
all tuners, max-ers, fractal composers/programmers, iotans and experimental
musicians, algorithmic composers and agni yogis......... keep creating and
keeping our energy uplifted whilst many others fail to imagine how to
elevate either us or themselves....

in thoughts for serious global peace at present,......

Lawrence Ball

PIANO/SAROD IMPROV CONCERTS OCT. 23 and 26

Wednesday Oct. 23, 2002 7:30pm
The Nicholas Roerich Museum
319 w107th Street
west from W107th and Broadway
take the 1-train to 103rd or 110th
(212) 864-7752
admission by optional donation

Saturday Oct. 26, 2002 7pm
FAUST-HARRISON PIANOS
205 West 58th Street (west of 7th Avenue)
www.faustharrisonpianos.com
LIMITED SEATING
For reservations, call (212) 489-3600
admission $13

Lawrence Ball and Lisa Sangita fuse their Western and Eastern classical
roots
into a fluid, lyrical and ecstatic expression. The music ebbs and flows
between deeply reflective and highly animated moods, and between
straightforward and intricately interwoven textures. These pieces begin
from
the raga format, but evolve according to the in-the-moment emotional pulse
and interplay. Since the Oct.26th concert coincides with the huge anti-war
rally
in Washington D.C., we would like to dedicate it and the Oct.23rd one as
well
to the principle of working to create peace through non-violent cooperation.
We would agree with one wise soul who has said that war is a failure of the
imagination.
Both Lawrence and Lisa have been improvising and composing for over 30
years.
Lawrence has recorded almost 2000 pieces of distinctive piano explorations,
the
hallmark of his repertoire. He is also the director of the Planet Tree
Music
Festival
in London which has presented new and exciting musical programs since 1996.
Lisa Sangita who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area specializes in playing
her

electric sarod (a one-of-a-kind adaptation of the traditional classical
Indian
sarod)
in unusual contexts, but has found the greatest satisfaction in the
combination
of
sarod with chordal instruments. She studied with maestro Ali Akbar Khan for
more than 15 years. The timbres of sarod and piano are quite similar, but
they

differ widely in the way they express themselves (piano being a very
harmonic
instrument and sarod being more strictly melodic). Together they create a
whole
new musical language.

" contemplative... capable of transporting listeners into hypnotic reveries
rife with ingenious improvisations and ever-mounting creative energy
a sonic mix that promises enthralling melodies and rapturous rhythms."
Derk Richardson The East Bay Express

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