Thursday, August 21, 2008

Arti Anklikar Tikekar -- “It is the mind that sings, and not the voice”

›
Arti spoke to Deepak Raja on December 20, 2003 In the last few years, I find that my definition of the beautiful in music is changing. W...
Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Abdul Lateef Khan --“When I accompany a vocalist, I merge my personality into his”

›
The life and times of Abdul Lateef Khan, as narrated to Deepak Raja on March 5, 2000 and March 21, 2001 I was born in a village called Gu...
Thursday, July 31, 2008

Uday Bhawalkar -- "Dhrupad is not a guarantee of a comfortable life"

›
Uday Bhawalkar spoke to Deepak Raja on October 2, 1998 My family hails from Ujjain. In 1981, when I was 15, I read an advertisement in th...
Saturday, July 12, 2008

Somnath Mardur – “Training my children was my highest priority”

›
Introduction: Somnath Mardur (born: 1944) is an unassuming musician, whose world has so far been limited to local radio broadcasts, and co...
Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Tagore – "Music is the purest form of art"

›
Reproduced from: Sadhana, the Realisation of Life, by Rabindranath Tagore 1st edition. 1913, reprinted 1964 Music is the purest form of ...
Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Shamsuddin Faridi Desai – "The Qadri Sufis regard music as a pathway to God"

›
Shamsuddin Faridi Desai,  amongst the last Rudra Veena players of the pre-independence generation, was not an easy man to interview. I tri...
Saturday, June 21, 2008

Raga Darbari Kanada – the majestic gait and its tonal geometry

›
Raga Darbari Kanada has often been described as the Emperor of Ragas and the Raga of Emperors . These descriptions recall the raga’s associ...
Thursday, May 29, 2008

Book Review : By Partho Datta

›
Hindustani music: A tradition in transition . Deepak Raja. DK Printworld, New Delhi. Rs. 490/- This is a big book of essays and miscel...
Monday, April 28, 2008

How the Begum trumped the Nawab

›
Kumar Mukherjee (died: 2007) was, for several decades, one of the most influential members of Calcutta’s music “establishment”. In 2006, Pe...
Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Swara, Raga, & Rasa – a perspective

›
Reproduced from “Hindustani Music – a tradition in transition” Author: Deepak S. Raja Foreword: Pandit Shivkumar Sharma Introduction: Lyle...