Portland State Magazine Winter 2016

8 pORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE winter 2016 THE PERCUSSIONIST called and the singers answered in a winning performance of Indian classical music by Portland State Chamber Choir students and Shiva Bharadwaj, a high school junior from Oregon Episcopal School. They performed at a Hindu temple in Delaware for the North American finals of a global contest sponsored by Sri Sankara TV. The television network was looking for the best young singers and musicians of Indian Carnatic music. PSU choir director Ethan Sperry led the students to victory in the group performance category, singing and drumming two original compositions by Bharadwaj and Sperry. Their music was broadcast worldwide on Sankara TV in December, the first time that an American choir has appeared on Indian TV, according to the show’s producers. Winning a carnatic music competition Fanfare Singing a Strauss classic LUSH COSTUMES and the high-spirited music of 19th-century Vienna are just some of the charms of the Johann Strauss operetta Die Fledermaus , playing in Lincoln Performance Hall April 22 through May 1. The brisk comedy is full of jokes, puns, false personas and boudoir intrigue. Opera students, accompanied by the PSU Symphony Orchestra, will perform an English translation of the opera. Artistic director for Die Fledermaus is Christine Meadows ’83, director of opera at PSU.