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ZEITGEIST

PERFORMING THE MUSIC OF OUR TIME

Summer Rain at Anderson Center
featuring Zeitgeist & Nirmala Rajasekar

May 11, 2018 at 7:30 p.m. 
Anderson Center
163 Tower View Drive, Red Wing, MN

$20 / $15 students & seniors​
​$18 Anderson Center Members
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Zeitgeist is joined by veena virtuoso Nirmala Rajasekar and mridangam player Thanjavur Murugaboopathi for a production that blends Indian Classical music (Carnatic tradition) and Western classical new music. Summer Rain features five musical compositions designed to bring all of us a greater understanding of the two traditions.

Nirmala Rajasekar began her training in Veena at age 6 from well-known practitioners such as Sri Deva Kottai Narayana Iyengar and Smt. Kamala Aswathama. After moving to Bangalore, she learned at the Gana Mandira School in Basavangudi Smt. G Chennama and Smt. E. P. Alamelu. The violinist Vidwan Sri A. D. Zachariah also guided her, and she began her career as a soloist at age 13. Later in Chennai, she was guided by the revered veena vidushi for Smt.Kalpakam Swaminathan who passed away on April 6 2011. Nirmala trained with her for nearly 30 years. Her vocal Gurus are Sri B.Sitarama Sarma and Sri T.R. Subramanyam. Nirmala travels around the world teaching and performing Carnatic Music vocally and on her veena She is an active collaborator with other forms of art as well including western Classical music, Jazz, Chinese poetry. She is the artistic director of the school Naadha Rasa (Essence of Tone), Center for Music.
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Zeitgeist’s Summer Rain tour is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund. 
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