Enjoy music with your art at the Norton Simon Museum Sept. 23

On Tuesday evening, September 23, at 7:00, when the Norton Simon Museum is closed to the public, travel with faculty and guest performers of the Pasadena Conservatory of Music through time and place--from east to west--for a musical tour through three galleries of the museum's renowned collections of Asian and twentieth-century art.

The tour opens with a quartet performing classical Indian ragas on the sitar, sarod, tabla and tanpura. It continues with contemporary compositions inspired by the Indian subcontinent performed on the piano, violin and clarinet. The tour concludes with a fusion of raga, jazz and world music idioms performed on indigenous and classical instruments. A champagne reception by Patina follows the performance.

Tickets are $150. Reservations are required.

For ticket information, call 626-683-3355.

Performances by Abhijit Bannerjee, tabla; Pedro Eustache, flute; Peter Jacobson, cello; Dave Lewis, drums; Paul Livingstone, sitar; Leticia Meza, tanpura; Somnath Roy, ghatum; Partho Sarathy, sarod; James Sullivan, clarinet; Susan Svrcek, piano; and Shalini Vijayan, violin.