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Bureau
of Educational and Cultural Affairs Three Fulbright Visiting Scholars will perform at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage on Thursday, April 3, beginning at 6:00 p.m. This cultural program is an enrichment component of the annual Fulbright Visiting Scholar Conference, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Kausalya Srinivasan, the director of the Sunartaka School in Chennai, India, will be performing three traditional Indian dances. She is a Fulbright Scholar-in Residence at Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts. Srinivasan is currently teaching "Dance: A Panoramic Journey From the Traditional to the Contemporary." Franklin Larey, a concert pianist from South Africa, will perform three pieces: Claude Debussy's Preludes, La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin and Feux d'Artifice, and Alexander Scriabin's Sonata Number 4 in F#, Opus 30. His talents as a soloist and duo pianist have won him international acclaim, and he now serves as director and professor of piano at the South African College of Music at the University of Cape Town. Larey's second Fulbright grant has brought him to the University of Cincinnati, where he is conducting research on "The Power of Expression: Forging a South African Pianistic Tradition." Ending the evening will be a musical performance entitled Nori, a fusion of Western and Korean styles composed by Jiesun Lim of Seoul, South Korea. Lim is an associate dean and professor of composition and music theory at Yonsei University's College of Music and is currently a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. During her grant she is writing a concerto for kayakeum (a traditional Korean string instrument) and orchestra that is to symbolize the exchange and mutual effect between the cultures and people of Korea and the United States. CONTACT:
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