Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Buddhadev Dasgupta -- “But for the radio, I would have died unknown”

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Dasgupta spoke to Deepak Raja on October 27, 1997 and December 3, 1998. I was born in 1933 at Bhagalpur in Bihar. My father was a govern...
Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Raga Madhuvanti: Multani's cousin

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Madhuvanti is a popular pre-sunset raga. Though it is possibly a raga of considerable antiquityl, its present nomenclature could be of recen...

Ashwini Bhide Deshpande – “I am happy with being just a good musician”

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Ashwini spoke to Deepak Raja on September 9, 2000, and August 13, 2001 In my family, we studied music just as we studied mathematics, gram...
Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Karlheinz Stockhausen on music

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Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007) was a genius who redefined music . He is regarded as the most daringly original (Western music) composer ...
Monday, September 14, 2009

Yashwant Buwa Joshi – “The basic requirement of music is a magical quality called “Rang”

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Yashwant Buwa spoke to Deepak Raja on June 5, 2003 I was born and brought up in Pune. My father operated a couple of cabs in the city. H...
Saturday, September 5, 2009

Lyle Wachovsky's introduction to "Khayal Vocalism: Continuity within Change"

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Deepak Raja's second book is a comprehensive study of khayal vocalism through the stylistic analysis of nineteen contemporary vocalists....
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...