HINDUSTANI CLASSICAL SITAR with Professor RAHUL NEUMAN

Please join us for an hour of Hindustani Classical Sitar music, performed by Professor Rahul Neuman.

Prof. Rahul Neuman, Co-Director of the
MUSIC IN INDIA ENSEMBLE at UCLA

This 2022 inaugural concert, organized by the UCLA's Faculty Women's Club, Music in Cultural Contexts Section, will be our first in-person live music performance since the pre-Covid-19 era in 2020. To celebrate our new beginning, the concert will be held at the UCLA's newly renovated Faculty Club. 

The event will take place on OCTOBER 19th at 12:30 PM in the Cypress Lounge of the Club. To RSVP, please email to Chair of the Music Section: Zorana Ercegovac

As I spoke with Rahul about his October 19th performance at the Faculty Club, he informed me that his own teacher, Ustad Shujaat Khan will be performing on the October 7th at the Shoenberg Hall. You must register for this free of charge event here.

Ustad Shujaat Khan, to perform at the Schoenberg Hall
October 7th at 7 PM

Ustad Khan is one of the greatest North Indian classical musicians of his generation. He belongs to the Imdad Khan gharana of the sitar. His style of playing, known as the gayaki ang, imitates the range and subtleties of the human voice. Khan’s musical pedigree extends seven generations and includes some of the leading artists of their own generations. He has earned distinction for his unique style of sitar playing, exceptional voice, and intuitive and spontaneous approach to rhythm. Khan has been invited as a visiting professor at the Dartington School of Music in England, the University of Washington in Seattle, and the University of California, Los Angeles. 

(This paragraph and the photo of Ustad Khan are copied from the UCLA Web site giving a brief biographical note, and announcing his concert).

This information is remarkable, and happily, we will be able to witness the artistic mastery and pedagogical thread from Ustad Khan to Prof. Neuman, and on to Neuman's students at UCLA. 

Below you will find a floor map of the Faculty Club venues. The Cypress Lounge is located at the lower level (upper right corner) of the Club.

The floor plan gives a rendition of the Cypress Lounge 

Spacious venues provide a unique place on the UCLA campus where its membership (e.g., faculty, staff, alumni, and guests) has enjoyed their meals (with no need to make reservation), meet socially, hold symposia and conferences, listen to music programs and scholarly presentations, and celebrate special family events.

While this is not the first time our Music in Cultural Contexts Section organizes our live programs at the Club (last time was in Fall of 2019), this is the first time we will invite membership from sister organizations, including Emeriti, Retirees, the Faculty Club attendees, and their guests.