Shirish Korde, born in Uganda of Indian descent and now active in the contemporary music scene around Boston, is a composer of genuinely international inspiration. He is as equipped as anyone to take on the challenge of fusing the Indian and Western classical musical languages, a challenge of immense difficulty. (If you don't believe that, try reading analyses of Western music from an Indian theoretical perspective sometime.) Given the solo orientation of Indian pieces, the concerto form might seem like a logical meeting ...
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Shirish Korde, born in Uganda of Indian descent and now active in the contemporary music scene around Boston, is a composer of genuinely international inspiration. He is as equipped as anyone to take on the challenge of fusing the Indian and Western classical musical languages, a challenge of immense difficulty. (If you don't believe that, try reading analyses of Western music from an Indian theoretical perspective sometime.) Given the solo orientation of Indian pieces, the concerto form might seem like a logical meeting place, but it's difficult to pull off -- the accompaniment in India's two classical systems is not harmonic in the Western sense. Ravi Shankar, in his Concerto No. 1 for sitar and orchestra, eliminated the string section from the orchestra and entrusted the rest of the ensemble with a function more percussive than harmonic. Korde's Svara-Yantra, designated as a violin concerto in three movements, instead uses string backdrops; in the first movement, Korde says, "The orchestral...
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