Purbayan Chatterjee showcased the melodic potential of the sitar to its fullest, offering an aesthetic experience for connoisseurs of music. Purbayan left the audience awe-struck with the popular chota khayal bandish ‘Payaliya jhankar mori’ in Purya Dhanashree. In a rare gesture of a guru acknowledging his inspirational debt to his sishya, Purbayan rendered a captivating ‘dhun’ from the Benaras region …
Legendary sarangi player Pandit Ram Narayan died on November 9 at the age of 96. — Governor of Maharashtra November 9, 2024 Sangeet Natak Akademi, on X, wrote, "Sangeet Natak Akademi and its associate bodies deeply mourn the sad demise of Ram Narayan, the renowned Hindustani musician and sarangi virtuoso. Sangeet Natak Akademi and its associate bodies deeply mourn the …
Acclaimed actors Saurabh Shukla, Piyush Mishra, Rajesh Tailang, celebrated poet Ashok Chakradhar, and folk singer Prahlad Singh Tipanya among others will be participating in the upcoming "Cultural Kaarva'n -- Virasat 2022" by Jashn-e-Adab Foundation, starting October 28. Cultural fest Kaarva'n-Virasat 2022 to celebrate Hindustani art and literature The three-day festival, organised by Jashn-e-Adab Sahityotsava in association with the Ministry of …
If you are among the under-40 musicians sending in online entries for The Hindu Margazhi Music Contest, don’t you want to know who the judges are? The judges for the competition are musician, dance scholar and writer Sujatha Vijayaraghavan, vocalist and an associate professor of French Varalakshmi Anandakumar, violinists LN Sisters and gurus M. Lalitha and M. Nandhini, Mridangist and …
Pandit Jasraj, the doyen of Hindustani classical music and last of his generation, passed away in New Jersey on August 17 and was laid to rest with state honours in Mumbai last week. Those four bhajans that morning, Adi Deva Namostutam, Om Namo Bhagawate Vasudevay, Govind Damodar Madhaveti and Mero Allah Meherban turned me into a lifelong admirer of Pandit …
“Beta, this is only a beginning”. Pt Hariprasad Chaurasia’s words were music to Retnasree Iyer’s ears when she broke the news about her getting the Kerala Sangeeta Nataka Akademi award to him in Mumbai. I know Retnasree from her childhood and I had arranged her solo performance in Chennai once, since she was the only female Hindustani tabla artiste from …
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