The Season of Love and Honey: Sitar and Poetry of Vidyapati
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Description
As with many of India’s great mystical poets Vidyapati is known for beautifully blurring the distinction between the spiritual and the physical and artfully merging and connecting the differences of duality. His best loved poetry is a collection written between 1380 and 1406 that has become a literary and devotional masterpiece on the relationship of Radha and Krishna. This evening over zoom, musician David Whetstone will recite some of the best loved poems of Vidyapati while weaving his masterful sitar playing with the mystical verse.
David Whetstone is a sitarist-disciple of the renowned Ustad Vilayat Khan, having begun his studies in 1971. In 1988 at the age of 34 he received an American Institute of Indian Studies Senior Research Fellowship, and has collaborated and toured for over 20 years with poet Robert Bly and Rumi translator Coleman Barks, resulting in numerous recordings and films. He co-founded and was Artistic Director of Minneapolis’ Ragamala Music and Dance Theater, supplying the entire repertoire from 1992-1997. He premiered excerpts of his opera, White Nights, with the Rochester (MN) Orchestra and Chorus on Minnesota Public Radio. David teaches at Carleton and Macalester Colleges in Minnesota.
Start Date: 5/17/2026, 1 meeting
Class Time: 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Day of Week: Sunday
Location: Zoom
Instructor: David Whetstone
Status: Running/Openings
