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
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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.
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his work, Powers said anything
where a person is under his own
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cent of the work and his wife
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ty in the future. Powers is con
sidering finding people to do
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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."