Slowly, literature on music/musicians is seeing an enhance, and in contrast to a number of many years in the past when most of those books have been in Hindi, Marathi or Bengali, English appears to be the most popular language now.
Biographies on musicians are extra frequent, with books written on Ustad Vilayat Khan, Ustad Zakir Hussain, Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia, M.S. Subbulakshmi, M. Balamurali Krishna, Pt. Ravi Shankar and Ustad Vilayat Khan, amongst others.
The second version of the Festival of Literature on Music, held in Bihar Museum, Patna, celebrated literature on music, in addition to introduced up points related to the world of music.
Patna was as soon as a centre of music with a really discerning viewers — throughout Dussehra, there can be six or seven concert events on the similar evening. Bihar has two faculties of pakhawaj — the Dhrupad gharana of Darbhanga and Gaya’s thumri. However, regardless of this rich custom, classical music in Bihar shouldn’t be given the significance it as soon as was.
Tabla exponent Bickram Ghosh talking at one among the classes
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Courtesy: Navras
An try to revive tradition, this festival was organised by the Navras School of Performing Arts, and was a distinct segment gathering of like-minded folks from throughout India.
Violinist Dr. L. Subramaniam, a uncommon author-musician whose newest ebook Raga Harmony was mentioned, was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement award. Other musicians at the festival included Bickram Ghosh, Ashwini Bhide Deshpande, Pravin Godkhindi, Ritwik Sanyal and Sanjeev Jha, and amongst the dancers have been Sonal Mansingh, Shovana Narayan, Prerana Shrimali and Manjari Chaturvedi.
Dr. Ajit Pradhan, the mind behind the festival, can be devoted to Urdu, so the festival was titled ‘Rang o adab’, in reminiscence of Kishori Amonkar. Creditably, this cardiac surgeon is a loyal patron of the arts and literature. The festival opened with a live performance of Tejashree Amonkar, who later shared recollections of her grandmother.
The festival additionally coated books but to be revealed, or just-released books on musicians Kishori Amonkar, Mallikarjun Mansur, Abdul Karim Khan and Gangubai Hangal.
The classes that concerned music have been pleasant too — this featured Ashwini Bhide Deshpande, Satyasheel Deshpande, Pravin Godkhindi and Bickram Ghosh.
The opening live performance by Ashwini Bhide Deshpande lingered for lengthy, because it was a tribute to her ‘maanasik’ guru Kishori Amonkar — she by no means learnt from her immediately, however adopted her music carefully all her life. Ashwini sang a self-composed bandish in raag Yaman, ‘Mein tore vaari vaari jaaongi’. The festival concluded with a dastangoi on actress Madhubala by Fouzia Dastango.
Published – April 25, 2025 06:29 pm IST
