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...
Sunday, January 4, 2009

Khayal Vocalism: Continuity within Change

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Khayal Vocalism: Continuity within Change Author: Deepak Raja Foreword: Pandit Ulhas Kashalkar Introduction: Lyle Wachovsky Publisher: DK P...
Friday, December 19, 2008

Raga Ahiri: Neither Ahiri Todi, nor Ahir Bhairav – just Ahiri

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Until a few years ago, I had not heard Raga Ahiri. The opportunity of studying it came my way when I had to write a commentary on the sarodi...
Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Purva and Puriya Kalyan: What’s the difference?

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Purva (also called Purvya) belongs to a cluster of ragas bearing a family resemblance to raga Puriya in terms of swara material, and phraseo...
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 ...