Two renowned Indian performers feature on a double bill in conjunction with the exhibition Garden and cosmos: the royal paintings of Jodhpur. Revered and much-loved Dr Natesan Ramani, a legend in his own lifetime, represents the best of the Carnatic sacred music of South India. He touches the hearts of his audiences with his simple soprano bamboo flute, much as Lord Krishna with his flute moved the hearts of the gopi cowherd girls. The young and golden-voiced Manjiri is the first winner of India’s highly regarded Bismillah Khan Award. In a short time she has been invited – to the envy of older masters – to all five major Indian music festivals. She has a rare melodious voice and a fine sense of intonation, equally at ease in purely classical sacred and semi-classical romantic forms of Hindustani music.

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