How do you celebrate a half century of devotion to music? For Ustad Dilshad Hussain Khan – a prominent exponent of classical Eastern and Western music – the answer is obvious – with more music.
So, next month the Pakistani-American maestro will perform a fusion of some of the finest ragas and orchestral tunes.
As a violinist and musicologist, Ustad Dilshad has created a series of high quality numbers with some of the leading masters in the last five decades. His Golden Jubilee celebrations will bring alive some Masnavis of famous 13th century Islamic Sufi poet Jalal ad-Din Rumi with raga compositions including those of the 13th and early 14th century legendary artist and inventor Amir Khusrow.
Suif Poet Rumi
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The mystic music, in Dilshad’s words, will emphasize his message of peaceful coexistence, love, spiritual development and harmony, in the troubled times around the world, topped by the Syrian humanitarian catastrophe. Besides performing, Dilshad has also spoken and written about evolution of Sufism in the United States.
“I believe performing and listening to Sufi music is a soothing experience – it is like experiencing a therapeutic value of the vocals, beats, strings, poetry, rhymes, zikr and tunes,” the Khan said of the upcoming October 11, 2015 performance at Sheraton Tyson Hotel.
Dilshad, the Pakistan-born scion of Delhi Gharana of classical music, will bring together a harmony of Western orchestra in his fusion of classics with Tabla, Sarod, Guitar and may other instruments. He has also won laurels for performing timeless Pakistani folk music and symphonies.
The performers will include his son musicologist Ustad Samar Hussain Khan, prominent Spanish-American guitarist and composer Richard Eagleton, vocalist Ali Hashim, Iranian-American Bass guitarist Shahin Shaida, and Afghan-American vocalist Musa.
