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Indian musician speaks to audience with bamboo flute G.S. Sachdev By Kathy Proffit Emerald Contributor Without music we'd be a dead race. No head bobbing, shoulder-shaking, off-key hum ming. toe-tapping, arm flapping or struttin' out to give life to the music, that grows in our souls. Classical Indian flutist G.S. Sachdev is one musician who speaks to the souls of his listeners. It is not the actual notes that are of such great im portance in Indian music, as in Western music, but the mood the melodies invoke in a listener's heart Indian music concentrates on the melodic, as opposed to the harmonic qualities displayed in Western music. A native of Northern India. Sachdev. 52. has been teaching, performing and recording In dian music in this country for the past 15 years He plays the bamboo flute, a simple, seven hole. keyless instrument. Unlike the classical flute, the bamboo flute is much more resonant and flexible in tonal color, and can cover many more pitch nuances. According to University music professor. Bob Trotter, there are very delicate differences in tone quality and pitch in Sachdev's artistic playing. Consequently, no two perfor mances are alike, as virtuoso Sachdev uses his acute sense of people to feel out the mood of his audience. Characteristically he begins a "raga." an ancient melodic pattern of Hindu S3 McDonald’s Now Tossing Shrimp Salads , Saves 100 / r v Save $1.00 with Coupon on the purchase of a McDonald’s* Shrimp Salad. Offer valid NOW thru November 7.1U87. Offer good only at Eugene. Springfield. Cottage Grove, Roseburg. and North Bend McDonald’s.* IT'S A GOOD TIME FOR THE GREAT TASTE I I’Wa&t prrwrnt ^ oupon %t Ken imknnii I unit one coupon per < uvomrr v »m« Not good »n t onfMfHtKm m ith ah> other offer I \ okJ vi herr prohUwied ( 4»h v«hw I /SO of one tent C> 1VIH7 McDonald ft Carp music, with a mood-setting im provisation using a basic chord structure. Then, he is joined by a drum or “tabla” to carry out the rhythmic pattern of the piece. According to Trotter, Sachdev becomes increasingly animated and brilliant during the raga, feeling how the melodies are moving in and around the whole sound. Often he gives the drummer the op tion to play brilliant passages. Trotter said. David Gustafson, president of the ASUO Committee for Musical Arts, responsible for br inging Sachdev here, calls him "amazing.” "He has an incredi ble sense of people and at mosphere.” Gustafson said. “And he's very down to earth, almost like a part of the earth.” he said. Sachdev is also known for the calming, healing effect his music brings to listeners. Currently, Sachdev resides in the San Francisco Bay area where he has established a school of Indian music. He per forms regularly in the U S. and on international tours to Europe and the Far East, and also has at least seven recordings to date. The compelling sounds of Sachdev's accomplished play ing will resonant through Beall Hall at the University this Fri day at 8 p.m. Tickets are S3.Of) for students and Sfi.Ol) for the general public. Book_ Continued from Page 11 his work, Powers said anything where a person is under his own steam and power on land is open He has had publishers of other books approach him to do maps for hiking, cross-country skiing and other outdoor activities. However, first he would like to do mure cycling books He currently is working on a tour ing book for the San Juan islands, and after that he'd like to do maps fur routes in Seattle. For the San Juan book, due out in April. Powers will be do ing the printing himself from his business. Terragraphics. located in his Eugene home. Currently, he does about HO per cent of the work and his wife does 20 percent as his business partner. To increase productivi ty in the future. Powers is con sidering finding people to do the research of areas so he could concentrate on mapping and publishing Stores on-campus carrying "Touring Eugene" include the University Bookstore, Pedal Power and Second Nature. Correction Dr Saul Toobert of the University Counseling Center was incorrectly given credit fur helping found the University’s Center for Gerontology in an article chronicling the history of the center, which appeared in the Oregon Daily Emerald on Oct. 15. Toobert and Dr. Frances Scott. who helped establish the center, later developed and taught for many years a course offered through the center entitled "Con frontations of Death."
