Thursday, August 27, 2009

Sampoorna Malkuns: the concept and its manifestations

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Though there are, indeed, raga-s by this name, Sampoorna Malkauns cannot be considered the name of a specific raga with well-defined melodic...
Saturday, August 8, 2009

Bahadur Khan -- Undeserved Oblivion

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Bahadur Khan (1931-1989) was an outstanding, though inadequately recognised, sarodist, trained by his uncle, the legendary Ustad Alauddin Kh...
Thursday, July 30, 2009

Shujaat Khan – “Most duets are a farce”

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Shujaat spoke to Deepak Raja on September 18, 2002 Surprising as it might seem, I am not a great enthusiast of the duet in Hindustani mus...
Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Raga Desh – classicist as well as romanticist

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Peter Manuel, an authority on the thumree and allied genres, has listed Desh amongst “thumree ragas” – ragas of the Khamaj parent scale, fre...
Monday, May 11, 2009

Raga Vachaspati in Hindustani music

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Vachaspati is a Carnatic raga, representing the Vachaspati parent-scale (64th Melakarta). In its Hindustani adaptation, it has the tone mate...
Monday, April 20, 2009

Bahauddin Dagar -- “In the beginning, your Ustad teaches you; thereafter, your instrument teaches you”

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Bahauddin spoke to Deepak Raja on 9/11/02 People often introduce me as the 20th generation of the Dagar lineage, referring to Nayak Harid...
Monday, March 30, 2009

Raga Hemant: Genesis and trajectory

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This essay is now published in my fourth book: Removing it from here was proper, though not obligatory, in order th...
Thursday, February 26, 2009

Raga Malti Basant – a rare fragrance of spring

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I have had occasion to study Malti Basant while writing a commentary on a recording of it by Ulhas Kashalkar. Malti Basant is a rare raga ...
Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Gundecha Brothers--“Nobody invites a poor musician to perform”

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Ramakant and Umakant Gundecha spoke to Deepak Raja on September 2, 1998 In 1981, when we decided to join the Dhrupad Kendra in Bhopal as s...
Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Raga Gorakh Kalyan – emerging as a Bageshri variant

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This essay is now published in my fourth book: Removing it from here was considered proper, though not contractually obligatory, i...