Hampstead Authors' Society No. 70 Issue 11 May 2008


 

HAS Summer Party
 &
Musical Interludes

Times: 15:00 - 18:00, Tea, musical interludes, refreshments.
Date:  Sunday, 15th June, 2008

Venue:  Hampstead Garden Suburb. Details confirmed upon registration.



Notes on Musicians…

 

Sisters, Sarah & Esther Shanson, trained at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Both before and after graduating, they appeared in
many London theatres and concert-halls. Their programme includes a varied mixture of classical and light music. Sarah also composes music for contemporary dance and works for a charity. Esther writes plays and is also qualified in physics, voice sciences, acting
and as a maths teacher.

                                            

 

 

 

Baluji Shrivastav is a classical Indian musician and composer described as a “a virtuoso multi-instrumentalist” by The Times
He plays sitar, surbahar, dilruba, tablas, pajhavaj, harmonium, vocals, bulbul-tarang and gopi chand.
His composition “ An Indian in London “ for sitar and orchestra  is one of several recent works.

 

 

 

 

 

Linda Shanson is the author of ‘Journey with the Gods’, a book for children about Indian Gods, (published by Mantra). The book has been a widely used teaching resource in schools throughout the UK and Linda has written and performed songs about many of the Gods. Primarily as a vocalist, she also performs under her original family name of Shanovitch, as part of the ‘Jazz Orient Trio’. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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