Rendition of compositions in rare Raag Gowri and Raag Khokhar by vocalist Mithun Chakravarty, and performance by Ustad Bahauddin Dagar on the rare instrument Rudra Veena, left audience spellbound at the BEM High School auditorium in Mangaluru on Wednesday. Mr. Chakravarthy, a disciple of Pandit Rajshekar Mansur, first presented the composition ‘Rajana Aye’ set to the rare Raag Gowri. Then …
On their 10th anniversary on 16th March, the Chidakash Kalalay Center of Art and Divinity, Kolkata, in collaboration with the Sangeet Natak Akademi, presented Marg Utsav, a one-day festival at Ravindra Bhavan in New Delhi. While the first was directed by Piyal Bhattacharya, the second was a Nada Sutra production by Akash Mallick and Rudra Prasad Roy in Kathakali and …
The year 1992 revolutionised Bollywood music — in terms of composition scheme, arrangements and the entire soundscape in general — with the release of Mani Ratnam’s Roja. Rahman, throughout the series, will be seen meeting Ustad Mohi Baha’un-din Dagar, Kalamandalam Sajith Vijayan, Lourembam Bedabati Devi and Mickma Tshering Lepcha who are the doyens of traditional music forms of the geographic …
