Monday, December 27, 2010

Girija Devi – “I am in the service of Goddess Saraswati”

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G irija Devi spoke to Deepak Raja on February 24, 2004 When I was five or six years old, my father placed me under the tutelage of Sarju ...
Sunday, December 26, 2010

Tejendra Majumdar -- “Where we get the most money, we risk indifferent audiences”

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Tejendra Majumdar spoke to Deepak Raja on December 21, 2003 I was 9 years old when I was taken to Bahadur Khan Saheb for training. My uncl...
Saturday, December 4, 2010

Bhairavi III: An Ustad’s Obsession

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I translate below, as faithfully as possible, an extract from a recorded interview I did with Ustad Vilayat Khan on January 3, 1997. The exp...

Bhairavi II: The Archetype

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As in the case of other ragas named after Hindu deities (Shree, Durga, Saraswati etc.), the genesis of the association between Bhairavi, as...

Bhairavi I: The melodic form

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Bhairavi is one of the most popular ragas in the Hindustani melodic pantheon. In its pure form, its scale represents one of the ten parent ...
Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Nayan Ghosh – “The market for the Tabla solo is disappearing”

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Nayan spoke to Deepak Raja on January 28, 2000 My father, Pandit Nikhil Ghosh -- we called him Baba -- was my Guru in all departments of ...
Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Prof. Kalyan Mukherjea – A maestro rediscovered

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Introduction : Prof. Kalyan Mukherjea (1943-2010) was an outstanding sarod player, trained by two eminent Gurus of Bengal -- Radhika Mohan M...
Sunday, June 27, 2010

Raga Basant Mukhari – A Carnatic raga seeking a Hindustani identity

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This essay is now published in my fourth book: Removing it from this blog was proper, though not contractually obligatory, in orde...
Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Ustad Asad Ali Khan – “The university is no place for shaping performing careers”

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The Rudra Veena maestro spoke to Deepak Raja on January 11, 2000 . I belong to the Jaipur Beenkar gharana, founded by the 18th century be...
Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Book Review: by Abhik Majumdar

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The Book Review Monthly, New Delhi Volume XXXI, Number 7, July 2007 Hindustani music: a tradition in transition By: Deepak Raja DK Pr...