Satyajit Ray’s "The Music Room"

Join us for an afternoon screening of Indian director Satyajit Ray’s The Music Room (Jalsaghar) (1958). NOTE: Please purchase your tickets in advance at ybca.org. The screening room is small and the screening will likely sell out. Free admission to YBCA’s art galleries is included with your ticket, so you may wish to arrive early.

“In The Music Room (Jalsaghar), director Satyajit Ray brilliantly evokes the crumbling opulence of a fallen aristocrat (played by the beloved Chhabi Biswas) desperately clinging to a vanishing way of life. At the heart of his world is the music room where he once hosted lavish concerts—now a shadow of its former self, grand and ghostly. A showcase for some of India’s most celebrated musicians of the era, the film echoes GaHee Park’s aesthetic universe in its incandescent rendering of tradition meeting modernity, of social ritual, and of time, memory, and identity folded into one another.”—Program notes

More info on YBCA’s screening: https://ybca.org/event/the-music-room-through-an-open-window-film-series/

1:30 Meet at YBCA Box Office (701 Mission St. at Third) to purchase tickets and take our seats. The film starts at 2.
3:40 After the program we will meet for conversation at The Grove (690 Mission St. @ 3rd St.) for refreshments and conversation.