Sunday, November 23, 2008

Raga Shuddha Kalyan: How and why it is changing

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Shuddha Kalyan is a popular, though difficult, raga of the Kalyan parent scale. The raga is pentatonic in the ascent and heptatonic in the d...
Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Nancy Lesh (Kulkarni): “Dhrupad is the music for me. India is the place for me.”

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The US-born Dhrupad Cellist, Nancy Kulkarni writes about her journey in Hindustani Music My journey in Indian music started completely by ...
Saturday, September 27, 2008

Shujaat Khan -- “Success and growth as a musician are different things”

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Shujaat spoke to Deepak Raja on January 16, 2004 Success and growth as a musician are different things. But, they are connected. If succe...
Thursday, September 11, 2008

Purnima Sen – “I could easily have become a knowledgeable musician nobody wanted to hear”

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Introduction : Groomed by three Ustads of the Agra tradition, Purnima Sen (born: 1937) is a rare female exponent of the avowedly masculine ...
Tuesday, September 2, 2008

The Alladiya Khan-Kesarbai legacy: in sepia tones

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An extract from: The Music Room By Namita Devidayal About the book : When Namita is ten, her mother takes her to Kennedy Bridge, a se...
Thursday, August 21, 2008

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

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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”

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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"

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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”

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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"

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