{"id":273002,"date":"2017-10-05T14:25:08","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T18:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=273002"},"modified":"2017-10-18T09:39:41","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T13:39:41","slug":"hidden-passions-creative-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/hidden-passions-creative-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden passions, creative lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7EkXqN1D8Gc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><em>Kishan Pandya demonstrates the art of jaltarang, an Indian musical form using ceramic or metal bowls tuned with varying volumes of water.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Since 2015, the Memorial Art Gallery has celebrated the private hobbies and creative lives of Rochesterians as part of a series called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/hidden-passions-creative-lives\/\">\u201cHidden Passions: Inspiring Conversations about Hyphenated Lives.\u201d<\/a> The program includes presenters from throughout Greater Rochester\u2014including University faculty, staff, and students\u2014who share their stories and ideas about creativity with the community.<\/p>\n<p>Kishan Pandya, a professor emeritus of medicine at the URochester, will kick off the program\u2019s fourth season with a discussion about his passion for the jaltarang\u2014as well as a brief performance\u2014 at 7 p.m. Friday, October 6, at the Memorial Art Gallery. Read more about Pandya&#8217;s passion below. He\u2019ll be joined by Brian Bailey \u201909W (PhD), a businessman and music promoter. Entry is $7.50 and includes museum admission.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/news\/community-engagement\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/bug-community-engagement.jpg\" alt=\"Community Connections: A Newscenter series highlighting the ties between the University and its communities.\" width=\"450\" height=\"281\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-277062\" \/><\/a>Kishan Pandya remembers when, as a 12-year-old growing up in India, he discovered the jaltarang while attending an after-school program . \u201cI was fascinated,\u201d he recalls.<\/p>\n<p>A musical instrument, the jaltarang consists of a set of porcelain bowls, that are \u201ctuned\u201d by reducing or adding water. The musician strikes the bowls with bamboo sticks to create a distinct percussive sound\u2014a ringing, ushered in by a plunk, like that of a xylophone. In Hindi, \u201cjal\u201d means water and \u201ctarang\u201d means wave.<\/p>\n<p>Pandya grew up in a musical home. All seven of his older siblings played instruments or sang. He played the jaltarang for pleasure as he grew up, and while attending medical school at Baroda Medical College in Vadodara, India. With no formal training on the instrument, Pandya taught himself to play popular Bollywood songs, which he performed for friends and family, and occasionally with other musicians for social functions.<\/p>\n<p>But he didn\u2019t have much time for the jaltarang during his career in medicine. For 30 years, he says, he barely touched the instrument. Then, after retiring from clinical practice in 2009, he took it up again.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after he returned to the instrument, he connected with Eastman School of Music faculty John Beck, a professor emeritus of percussion, and Bill Cahn, an associate professor of percussion, and participated in the Percussion Rochester festival in 2011 with Rohan Krishnamurthy, a graduate student from the Eastman School of Music. They performed an \u201cIndian\u201d version of Dave Brubeck\u2019s hit <em>Take Five.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Since 2009 he has also extended his repertoire beyond Bollywood and into classical and jazz. During the 2014 Rochester Fringe Festival, he performed Antonio Vivaldi\u2019s <em>\u00a0Concerto for Lute in D major (RV 93), <\/em>and also the slow movement of <em>the Winter concerto form the Four Seasons<\/em> with Publick Musick\u2014a Rochester-based period-instrument ensemble that presents historically informed performances of music from the 17th and 18th centuries and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>And while he gets a lot of personal enjoyment from playing the jaltarang and trying new genres, he also shares his talent with his family, writing and recording a \u201cditty,\u201d as he calls it, for each of his grandchildren for their birthdays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>URMC&#8217;s Kishan Pandya kicks off this season&#8217;s \u201cHidden Passions: Inspiring Conversations about Hyphenated Lives,\u201d a series sponsored by Memorial Art Gallery to showcase Rochesterians whose lives feature intriguing and unusual creative outlets. 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