LIVE WEBCAST OF CONCERT (live version only, on demand ticketing coming soon)!

For tickets to view the concert IN-PERSON at the Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours in Montréal, please click here: https://thepointofsale.com/tickets/raag-mode

India is home to one of humanity’s oldest musical traditions, and what we know today as Indian classical music has millennia-old roots. Raag (or raga) is a complex central con-cept which can most simply be defined as a particular configuration of pitches expressing a particular emotion. A comparable concept that is just as funda-mental though much less elaborate in Western music is that of mode. Both raag and mode underwent significant developments during the medieval period, changing the course of these two great musical traditions.

For this concert we have invited a special guest soloist: Ramneek Singh, an internationally acclaimed Hindustani Classical vocalist, born and trained in India and now based in Toronto. Together with Ms. Singh, we are preparing a program of melodies that highlight the similarities and differences between the Classical Indian raag and the European medieval mode. Two sacred traditions elaborated during the Middle Ages that were as distinctive as they were expressive of the centrality of melody and meaning to music-making.