2006-2007 MELA CALENDAR
The
Just
Alap Raga Ensemble
Pandit Pran Nath 11th Anniversary Memorial Tribute
Concerts in
the MELA Dream House
Friday Evenings, June
29 and July 6, 2007, 9 pm
La Monte Young, voice
Marian Zazeela, voice
Jung Hee Choi, voice
Da'ud Constant, voice
Charles Curtis, cello
Jon Catler, sustainer guitar
Naren Budhkar, tabla
The Tamburas of Pandit Pran Nath from the Just Dreams CD
MELA
Foundation Dream House
275 Church Street, 3rd Floor, between Franklin & White Streets in
Tribeca
Friday Evenings, June 29 and July 6, 2007, 9 pm
Admission $24. MELA
Members, Seniors, Student ID, $18.
Limited seating. Advance reservations recommended.
Two Concerts of Evening Ragas in the contemporary Kirana Style of North Indian Classical Music will be performed by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela with The Just Alap Raga Ensemble in a memorial tribute to Pandit Pran Nath on the 11th anniversary of his passing, Friday Evenings, June 29 and July 6, at 9 pm in the MELA Foundation Dream House light environment, 275 Church Street, 3rd Floor.
La Monte Young Marian Zazeela
Music and Light Box (1967-68)
The Whitney Museum of American Art
Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era
on view May 24, 2007 - September 16, 2007
Young & Zazeela Installation in Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era
This installation of the "Music and Light Box" from 1967-68 by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela is an entrancing precursor of the larger scale sound and light environments premiered in 1969 with their Dream House at Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Munich. Offering an alternative perspective to the more flashy, sensory bombardment of the psychedelic experience then in vogue, this small, dark space inhabited by the mysterious sound of sine waves tuned to the frequency ratio 64:63 and the ultraviolet illuminated, intricately patterned black cube draws the observer on an inward journey. The path of contemplation and meditation is introduced with the fusion of sound, light, space and time.
Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday,
Sunday, 11 am
– 6 pm
Friday, 1 pm – 9 pm
Closed Mondays
The Whitney Museum 945 Madison Avenue at 75
Street New York, NY 10021
1-800-WHITNEY
Marian Zazeela, Drawings
The Well-Tuned Piano in The Magenta Lights DVD Installation
Kunst im Regenbogenstadl, Polling, Bavaria, Germany
Opens Saturday, May 5, 2007, 6 pm
Kunst im Regenbogenstadl reopens for the 2007 season on Saturday, May 5, with a selected exhibition of Marian Zazeela Drawings in a newly renovated gallery dedicated to her graphic work, which will be presented in revolving exhibitions for the next three years. For 2007, Zazeela’s Words & Letters Group is displayed with examples of her drawings of this genre from the ‘60s and ‘70s.
At 6:00 pm on May 5, Uli Schaegger, Director of Kunst im Regenbogenstadl, will present Symmetry from (A)ntique to (Z)azeela, a discussion of the visual and musical Cosmos of the Work of Marian Zazeela and La Monte Young, followed by a reception.
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The Just Alap Raga
Ensemble
Tribute to Ustad Abdul Wahid Khan Sahib
Two Concerts in the MELA Dream House
Saturdays, January
6 and 13, 2007, 9 pm
La Monte Young, voice
Marian Zazeela, voice
Jung Hee Choi, voice
Da'ud Constant, voice
Jon Catler, fretless sustainer guitar
Naren Budhkar, tabla
The Tamburas of Pandit Pran Nath from the Just Dreams CD
MELA Foundation
Dream House
275 Church Street, 3rd Floor, between Franklin & White Streets in
Tribeca
Saturdays, January 6 and 13, 2007, 9 pm
Admission $24. MELA Members, Seniors, Student ID, $18.
Limited seating. Advance reservations recommended.
Info and reservations: 212-219-3019; mail@melafoundation.org.
Two Concerts of Evening Ragas in the contemporary Kirana Style of North Indian Classical Music will be performed by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela with The Just Alap Raga Ensemble in a memorial tribute honoring Pandit Pran Nath’s Guru, Ustad Abdul Wahid Khan Sahib (c. 1879-1949), the greatest master of the Kirana gharana during his lifetime, on Saturdays, January 6 and 13, 2007, at 9pm in the MELA Foundation Dream House light environment, 275 Church Street, 3rd Floor. PLEASE NOTE: The Dream House will be closed on Thursdays and Saturdays, January 4, 6, 11 and 13 to prepare for the scheduled concerts.
Concert of Pre-recorded Tapes
of
Pandit Pran Nath
performing Evening Ragas
with live commentary by
La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela
Friday, November 3, 2006, 8 pm
MELA Foundation Dream House
275 Church Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10013
Between Franklin & White Streets in Tribeca
Admission $16. MELA Members, Seniors, Student ID, $12.
Limited seating. Reservations recommended.
Two Telecasts from the MELA Archives
Pandit Pran Nath
Ragas Pat Dipak & Raga Darbari “91 X 18 PM NYC”
Fridays, October 27 & November 3, 2006, 9:30 pm
Mantra TV
Time Warner Cable Channel 57
RCN Cable Channel 109
Without Cable Box Channel 69
Digital Channel 85
Pandit Pran Nath’s 1991 performances of Ragas Pat Dipak and Darbari will air on MNN public access cable television on Friday evenings, October 27 and November 3 at 9:30 pm on the Mantra TV program on Time Warner Cable Channel 57; RCN Cable Channel 109; Without Cable Box Channel 69; Digital Channel 85.
The performances of Ragas Pat Dipak and Darbari were part of A Concert of Evening Ragas presented by MELA Foundation at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine on October 18, 1991. Pandit Pran Nath was accompanied by La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela and Terry Riley, voices and tamburas, Michael Harrison, tambura, and Krishna Bhatt, tabla. The MELA Archive video of this rare gathering of the master Indian vocalist with some of his closest disciples transports us back to his last years performing in one of New York's most majestic spaces.
The 88th Birthday Memorial Tribute continues on Friday, November 3, 2006 at 8 pm with a concert of the Master's pre-recorded tapes of Evening Ragas. The concert will take place in the MELA Dream House, 275 Church Street, 3rd floor, New York, NY. The concert is curated by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela, who will present commentary on the music during the event. The concert will continue for about four hours.
Admission $16; $12 MELA members; seniors; students with ID. Limited seating.
Reservations recommended: 212-219-3019 or 212-925-8270.
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Subways:
#1
train to Franklin Street / A, E / N, R / #6 trains to Canal Street
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Dream
House:
Seven+Eight Years of Sound and Light, a collaborative Sound
and Light Environment by composer La Monte Young and visual artist
Marian Zazeela, is presented in an extended exhibition at MELA
Foundation, 275 Church Street, 3rd Floor. The environment is open
Thursdays and Saturdays from 2:00 PM to Midnight. Suggested
contribution is $4.00. The long term exhibition opened in Fall
1993 and will continue for this season through June 16, 2007, reopening
again in September 2007. Dream
House Opens for the 2006-2007 Season – Our Fourteenth Year
La Monte
Young Marian Zazeela
Sound and Light Environment
Extended
Exhibition at MELA Foundation
275 Church Street,
3rd Floor
between
Franklin
and White Streets in Tribeca
Thursday,
September 21, 2006 continuing through
June 16, 2007
Thursdays and
Saturdays from 2:00 PM to Midnight
Contribution
$4.00.
Information 212-925-8270