{"id":226361,"date":"2014-10-17T17:46:31","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T12:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=226361"},"modified":"2014-10-17T17:46:31","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T12:16:31","slug":"ar-rahman-to-receive-honourary-doctrate-from-berklee-college-of-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/ar-rahman-to-receive-honourary-doctrate-from-berklee-college-of-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahman to get a royal treat of his own music"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AR_Rahman1\"<\/a> World renowned music composer AR Rahman is going to get a royal treat of his own music. Come 24 October and the maestro will witness a multi-cultural ensemble rendering his hit musical numbers on stage. The occasion will be the conferring of a Honorary Doctorate on Rahman by the prestigious Berklee College of Music. Listed as the World\u2019s Most Influential People in 2009 by Time<\/em> Magazine, Rahman will visit the Berklee College of Music on 24 October under the Berklee India Exchange, a new initiative co-founded by two Indian\/Berklee alumnus, Annette Philip and Clint Valladares as a platform for cultural conversation.
\nBerklee Faculty and students from the Berklee Indian Ensemble will pay tribute to the living legend, who will join them on select pieces in a concert (AR Rahman Meets Berklee: Festival of Lights) celebrating his music and life at Boston’s Symphony Hall. In honour of Rahman\u2019s new relationship with the college, a scholarship in his name will be established to help bring students from India to Berklee. All proceeds from the October 24 concert will go toward this scholarship fund. In addition to the performance, Rahman will conduct a master class at the Berklee Performance Center.
\nBoston’s Berklee College of Music is world\u2019s largest independent college of contemporary music and to date, 100 Berklee alumni have received 239 Grammy Awards. Annette Philip also founded the Berklee Indian Ensemble in 2011, one of largest and most diverse ensembles at the college, with members representing 37 countries. The ensemble performs an expansive repertoire of Indian classical, semi-classical, folk, Sufi, and contemporary Indo-jazz music.
\nOn 15 October, the Berklee Indian Ensemble released a cover of Rahman\u2019s Jiya Jale<\/em> from Dil Se<\/em>, as a tribute for his immense contribution to redefining contemporary Indian film music during his notable career spanning two decades. The video has already gone viral and can arguably be one of Rahman\u2019s best covers ever done.
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