Having accumulated a bunch of great footage from the past few weeks, I'm struggling to work up sufficient motivation to curate clips. The little chest cold I woke up with this morning isn't helping the cause. It occurs to me that I really don't need to take on extra work, so I'm not going to...
Of all the footage, I was most excited to share clips of Yashwant Vaishnav's tabla solo from the Swara Samrat Festival, a multi-city affair commemorating the 100th birth anniversary of sarod maestro Ali Akbar Khan. There's not much I can do to put the performance in context beyond stating that Yashwant is a generational talent whose feats on the tabla appear almost superhuman. His hour-plus solo on July 24th brought the entire Delhi audience, including a number of senior maestros, to their feet. Someone suggested over the microphone that Yashwant had "conquered" the audience. While the verbage may have been a touch extreme, it's also impossible to deny.
Enjoy.
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