Zankel Music Center to host two concerts this weekend
Veena Chandra
The fall season at the Arthur Zankel Music Center gets under way this weekend with two concerts featuring Skidmore faculty members:
- Sitar concert by Veena Chandra, at 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10; and
- Trio Faculty Concert: "An Afternoon of Chamber Music," 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 11.
Both concerts will take place in Zankel's Ladd Concert Hall. Admission is free and open to the public.
Music Department Lecturer Veena Chandra is a renowned sitarist, composer, and choreographer. Known for her skill and sensitivity as a performer, Chandra has been praised for her ability to communicate the beauty and complexity of North Indian classical music to the western listener.
On Sunday, Sept. 11, Music Department lecturers Patrice Malatestinic, Josh Rodriguez, and Evan Mack come together with French horn, violin, and piano for this special Trio concert. The program features the Brahms Trio in E flat, Op. 40; a piece by Trygve Madsen; and an original composition by Mack titled "Time's Simple Past," which will have its world premiere at this concert. Mack explained that the piece is a musical reflection on how life always seems a little simpler when looking back and upon further exploration, it is the realization that years from now, we will look back at today, and think "things used to be simpler!"
