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Dear Friends,
For the last 40 years, the AACM has been the leading institution for the teaching and performance of Indian classical music in the Bay Area. Now we are beginning a new phase of the college: a public library.
Many of you know of the illustrious sarode legend, Maestro Ali Akbar Khansahib, and his Ali Akbar College of Music located in San Rafael, California. Teaching along with Khansahib for the past 27 years is the formidable tabla great, Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri. Past teachers include: Ustad Zakir Hussain, Pandit Nikhil Banerjee, Ustad Aashish Khan and many more.
In 2007 we began work on one of our most exciting projects to date; the archiving and preservation of 6,000 hours of audio recordings of Khansahib’s classes and concerts to be housed in a public library on the AACM campus. We were very fortunate to have received an initial grant of $150,000 from the James Irvine Foundation to partially fund this project for a 2 year period. We have also received a very generous $10,000 award from the Rex Foundation, and $15,000 from individual donations totaling $175,000.
Our budget for this phase of the library is $375,000. We are still $200,000 short of our goal. The staff and students of the AACM are asking for you to invest in the future by adding your financial support to this unprecedented library. Any amount will help. The library will provide you and your children with 40 years of classes taught directly by Ali Akbar Khansahib, along with tabla classes, videos, articles, reviews, photos, and over 1,000 concerts to listen to. Khansahib is known as the “musician’s musician”. His depth of musical knowledge and the rigorous training he received from his father and Guru, Acharya Baba Allauddin Khan, have put him on an unsurpassed level of excellence.
We at the AACM are dedicated to preserving this legacy in a public library. With your help, we can make this a reality. If you are interested in becoming a part of this exciting library and would like to donate money, time or ideas to the AACM Library Project, please contact Mary Khan at
mary@aacm.org, go to www.aacm.org or phone 415 454-6372 .
With our sincere gratitude and thanks,
AACM
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