
{"id":3249,"date":"2008-08-14T08:55:16","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T16:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=3249"},"modified":"2008-08-14T08:55:16","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T16:55:16","slug":"music-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/08\/14\/music-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>K. Sridhar<\/strong><br \/>\nBy the tender age of five, K. Sridhar had already begun his training for a life in music \u00e2\u20ac\u201c first under the guidance of his mother, a descendent of 14 generations of Carnatic (South Indian) musicians, and then under Zia Mohiuddin Dagar, a master of Dhrupad, the oldest form of Hindustani (North Indian) music. At age 12, Sridhar became the youngest member of Ravi Shankar\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s orchestral group, absorbing a wealth of knowledge from the famous musical genius. All of this \u00e2\u20ac\u201c along with the intense spiritual training he received from his Sufi master in the Himalayas \u00e2\u20ac\u201c gives Sridhar\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s music a truly unique flavor: deeply serene and profound.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nNext weekend, you have a rare opportunity to hear and experience the beauty of classical Indian ragas presented by world-renowned Indian Sarod maestro K. Sridhar.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, August 23, 7 p.m. at the Barn at Valhalla off Highway 54 West. Tickets are $15 at the door. Call 929-2045 for information or email to jckubacka@gmail.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>K. Sridhar By the tender age of five, K. Sridhar had already begun his training for a life in music \u00e2\u20ac\u201c first under the guidance of his mother, a descendent of 14 generations of Carnatic (South Indian) musicians, and then under Zia Mohiuddin Dagar, a master of Dhrupad, the oldest form of Hindustani (North Indian)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artsmusic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}