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Production 1:

Year: 1999

In the year 1999, Virsa Foundation collaborated with World Music Institute to introduce a young sitar player Ashraf Shareef Khan Poonchwale. His stunning performance at Symphony Space, New York, before an audience of over 600, was the first time ever in 50 years that a classical musician from Pakistan performed in New York. His entire tour was financed by Rauf Ansari Foundation - a not for profit organization.

Production 2:

Year: 2000
 

In the year 2000, Virsa Foundation presented Farid Ayaz Qawwal & Brothers featuring Grand Master Munshi Raziuddin at the United Nations. Not since Nusrat Fateh Ali, has any group created such a sensation. In New York, during October 2000, Farid Ayaz & Brothers were supposed to give only two performances. The demand was such that we had to have their visa extended and they ended up giving eight performances.

Production 3:

Year: 2000

A sneak preview of Virsa Foundation production opera "Heer Ranjha". Waris Shah's Heer was sung in original Punjabi so movingly by an American soprano that it brought tears in the eyes of those present. The occasion was the farewell party for Abbas Haider Zaidi at Caffe Vivaldi. The well-known American composer, Carson Kievman, is writing the music for the opera.

Production 4:

Year: 2000

In the year 2000 Virsa Foundation staged two performances, one each in Washington DC and New York, by the legendary sitar maestro Khan Sahib Ustad Rais Khan.

Production 5:

Year: 2000

In the year 2000 Virsa Foundation presented a reading by our young novelist Mohsin Hamid at Caffe Vivaldi. Mohsin Hamid"s first novel, "Moth Smoke" was on the New Times best sellers list.

Production 6:

Year: 2000

Master Painters of Pakistan - The New York Collection
In the year 2000 Virsa Foundation designed this beautiful coffee table art book. Brain child of Abbas Haider Zaidi this collection includes priceless paintings from private collections never before seen in public. The book will be available through this site in 2002.

Photography by Sebastian Piras
Text by Dr. Akbar Naqvi
Art direction by Phillip Shung

Production 7:

Year: 2000

In the year 2000 Virsa Foundation presented the first New York performance of our famous TV singer Bilqees Khanum of "Anokha Ladla" fame.

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