Hariprasad Chaurasia gets French honour

Nov 04, 2010 |

New Delhi

Classical flute exponent Hariprasad Cha-urasia will be conferred the Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, the hig-hest civilian award in Fra-nce, by the French government for his contribution to music on November 9.
The award will be presented to the 72-year-old by French ambassador Jerome K. Bonnafont at a ceremony at the French embassy here. A book and a CD Hariprasad Chaurasia and the Art of Improvisation by Henri Tournier, the flute maestro’s French assistant at the Rotterdam Music Conservatory, will be released at the awards ceremony. Chaurasia is also artistic director of the Indian music department at Rotterdam Music Conservatory, where he has been teaching for the past 15 years.

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Jackson’s kids, mom open up on Oprah show
London: Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey has managed a coveted interview with Michael Jackson’s mother Katherine and his three children for her chat show.
The lives of Jackson’s three children were shrouded in mystery as the singer always kept them veiled in public but since his death in June 2009, they have come out into open.
But it will be for the first time that Prince, 13, Paris, 12, and Blanket, 8, will be shown up close on the an exclusive interview with Oprah Winfrey, the Daily Mail reported.
Winfrey taped an interview with the Jackson family at their home in Encino, California. It will be for the first time that the famously reclusive Katherine will sit down for an extensive chat with the TV host. —PTI

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