Thumri and Kathak Performance ( Part II)

Music and Dance from the Courts of Northern India (1, 19, 2012). Thumri, a light vocal classical music genre is said to have evolved in North India in the mid19th century court of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah of Lucknow to accompany the kathak dance form, one of the eight major classical dance forms of India. This program presented by Pandit Rai and Sinha evokes the court ambience of 19thcentury and early 20thcentury India with a fully choreographed performance of dance, music, and storytelling, depicting the clos