Rahman will share a keynote address before the performance, which will span his musical career in the Indian film industry and Hollywood
Indian composer, singer, and music producer AR Rahman speaks to media on the red carpet during the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne Awards Night at the Palais Theatre in Melbourne on Aug. 16.Choreographer and teacher Lata Pada is a doyenne of Indian classical arts in Canada. But the founder of the Mississauga-based Sampradaya Dance Academy also has her kohl-lined eyes trained on popular culture..
Listening to some of his hits in 2020, she dreamed up the idea of a show based on his music. On Oct. 5, Sampradaya Dance Creations, the dance company that grew out of Pada’s dance school, will present a live tribute to Rahman, joined by the Mississauga Symphony Orchestra, Indian Music Ensemble and guest dance artists from across. The evening will present a fusion of music and dance to celebrate Rahman, as well as 35 years of Sampradaya Dance Creations.
“It just struck me how danceable his music is,” says Pada on a phone call with Sampradaya Dance Creations’ artistic director Suma Nair. Pada tracked down an e-mail address for Rahman and proposed doing a tribute concert. When he came to perform in Toronto in 2022 at the Scotiabank Arena, Pada and Nair went to meet him backstage. It took four years, and the involvement of many entertainment lawyers and other collaborators, to get the scores for Rahman’s tracks..
Tribute concerts can be a revelatory experience, says Rahman, in a Zoom interview from Chennai, India. “They have started to become better in the past six, seven years,” he adds, noting that it wasn’t until Boston’s Berklee College of Music started to experiment with his songs, and went on to organize a concert in 2014 and establish a scholarship in Rahman’s name, that some of the “best stuff started to happen.
The concert in Vancouver will feature some of these iconic songs, along with “completely diverse pieces. There’s a French song, and one from,” he adds, referring to the Danny Boyle movie. “It’s almost like a workshop. I hope to talk about the process, depending on the questions. I am bad at conducting master classes. But you can ask me a question, and I’ll have some simple answer.”Switch gears. Give your brain a workout and do today's Daily Cryptic Crossword.
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