Jazz Festival in Germany
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Jazz buffs talk about intermingling of classical Indian music with modern Western jazz sounds. Never was this "fusion" more apparent than in the Jazzfest held in West Berlin in 1983. But the show was really stolen by thirteen-year old boy's wonder, U.Shrinivas, whose performance on the penultimate day earned thunderous applause and perhaps more notice backstage than any other act. " He's got it in him. He's fantastic" raved Don Cherry, a great jazz trumpeter, who has studied Indian music under the Dagar Brothers in Bombay. Shrinivas' virtuoso handling of the mandolin was even more remarkable considering his placement in the festival; pitted against Miles Davis and his All-Star band, the young prodigy was billed to perform under high pressure conditions on his first exposure to foreign audiences. He was obliged by the audience to extend the 45 minute set by an hour long encore, and then the concert was broadcast unprogrammed and in its entirety on television and radio the next day.
Cevantino Festival, Mexico 1987
In October 1987, Shrinivas toured Mexico and Cuba to participate in Cevantino festival, Mexico. He is the first Carnatic musician to visit Cuba and the first South Indian Carnatic musician who participated in this festival. Paloma, the wife of the Mexican President, who had intended to satisfy formality with a 10 min appearance, was so captivated by Shrinivas' music that she stayed back for a whole hour.
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