Enfold your spirit in music that will sweep you over the mountains of Tibet and across the lush paddy fields of Indonesia. This afternoon concert opens with Karsang Jamtso Saeji (known as “Karjam”), the son of nomadic yak herders in eastern Tibet, trained with the prestigious Gannan Tibetan Music and Dance Troupe.  The pure, sweet tenor voice he developed as a young boy during the long hours tending the family yak herd will be offered a cappella on traditional songs evoking the beauty of his Tibetan grassland home. Karjam will accompany himself on the bouzouki while performing original songs, which celebrate love and honor family. 

Asmarandana 

Asmarandana is a collaboration between the American jazz guitarist Rob Levit and Emiko Susilo from Indonesia- a classical vocalist of extraordinary grace and depth.  The duo takes its name from a type of traditional Javanese poetic form—sung rather than recited--used for storytelling.  The word Asmarandana can be interpreted as “the fire of passion,” “the price of love,” or “to give love,” but however you translate it, what you will hear is marked by longing or sadness . . . and always by a spirit of deep, abiding tenderness.