Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Shahid Parvez – “Duets satisfy audience appetite for novelty. Most partnerships don’t work”

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Shahid spoke to Deepak Raja on January 8, 2004 Upto the age of 15, I was trained on the sitar by my father, Aziz Khansaheb. My uncle, Haf...
Thursday, March 18, 2010

Book Review: by Neeru Dhall

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Indian Horizons The Journal of The Indian Council for Cultural Relations, New Delhi Vol. 51, Autumn issue Hindustani Music – A tradition...
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...