Pran Nath (musician)

Pran Nath (Hindi: प्राणनाथ Prāṇnāth; born November 3, 1918 in Lahore, † June 13, 1996 in Berkeley ) was a classical North Indian singer who was a teacher of the Kirana Gharana, very influential. Specialty of the Kirana or Krana style is a " beautiful melodic modulation. "

Life and work

Pran Nath left at thirteen, his family, who did not want to allow him to become a musician. He served the singer Abdul Wahid Khan (1878-1949), before he was allowed to study at this. In 1937 he became a musician at All India Radio. Then he worked as a music teacher and lecturer, 1966-1970 at the University of Delhi. He was invited as a visiting professor to the Mills College in 1972. Later he held several weeks with master-classes in India, taught in 1995 in Bremen and in Paris in 1996.

Pran Nath in 1970 came the first time in the United States, where he attended La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela. In the following years he also gave numerous concerts in Europe. In 1972 he founded the Kirana Center for Indian Classical Music in New York City, where he taught since then. The voice students of Pran Nath belong next to La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela Terry Riley, Don Cherry, Lee Konitz, Jon Hassell, Michael Harrison, David Byrne, Charlemagne Palestine, Henry Flynt, Toni Marcus, Jon Gibson, George Brooks, Brian Eno, Yoshi Wada, Rhys Chatham, WA Mathieu, Shabda Kahn, Catherine Christer Hennix and Simone Forti. Here, the instruction was "unprecedented intensity, " in his because the students lived with Pran Nath and practiced all day.

As a composer, he wrote many works, among other things, for the Kronos Quartet, the composition Aba Kee Tayk Hamaree for (his ) voice and string quartet, which was released in 1993 on the Kronos Quartet album Short Stories.

Discography

  • Earth Groove (1968 )
  • India's Master Vocalist (1972 )
  • Ragas of Morning and Night (1986 )
  • Midnight (1971, 1976, 2003 ed )
  • The Raga Cycle (1972, ed 2006)

Movies

  • In Between the Notes: Pandit Pran Nath A Portrait Of. Director: William Farley (1986 )
  • Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy - Harry Partch, Lou Harrison, and Terry Riley. Directed by Michael Blackwood (1995 )
Berkeley, California Akashvani (radio broadcaster) Don Cherry (trumpeter)
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