Sunday, February 21, 2010

Dhondutai Kulkarni – “Kesarbai was like the Niagara Falls”

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Dhondutai spoke to Deepak Raja on May 4, 2003 My father was a schoolteacher in Kolhapur and trained in the Gwalior style of vocal music. ...
Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Shujaat Khan – “I almost joined a tea estate as a Manager; but destiny had other plans”

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Shujaat Khan spoke to Deepak Raja on July 21, 1996 1960, I was born. I have no idea what was happening until 1966, when I performed for ...
Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Raga Shree: Supplicant, spooky, or belligerent?

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Shree is amongst the oldest raga-s in the Hindustani art music pantheon. But, it is not clear whether the melodic entity currently identifie...
Thursday, December 3, 2009

Raga Megh Malhar

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This essay is now published in my fourth book: Removing it from here was considered proper, though not contractually obligatory, in...
Thursday, November 12, 2009

Music is not just about music

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“The knowledge of music becomes an effective means of attaining one-ness with Lord Shiva; for by the knowledge of music, one attains to a s...
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...