Category: music
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Jingle Bells and Amjad Ali Khan
Ustad Amjad Ali Khan had been invited to USA for delivering a performance. He was requested to perform Jingle Bells. And he performed it nicely. But it attracted a number of critics and Ustadji was blamed a lot. So, I consider it my duty to throw some light on the quality of performance. The first…
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Indian Classical music- The alcohol without alcohol
People are behind alcohol because it relieves. It relieves you of all your worries. Though this state is temporary, people starve for it. it is just like running behind the shadow. Alcohol creates the shadow and people run behind it.Duty of any art is to realize the situation; to make people happy without deluding them.Indian…
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Famous musicians of India #3
A young boy, at a very tender age, hears a very touching gramophone record being played in a music shop.He is so much fascinated by the voice, that he leaves the house, runs away without a single penny in his pocket to find a teacher who will teach him this divine art.This little boy was,…
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Indian Music
Indian music,which can be said to be the oldest form of music, is attracting a great number of people all over the world.The Indian music, along with its musical quality, is now in limelight more because of latest research being conducted which prove it to be much healing and much beneficial. Vedas are said to…
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Famous musicians of India #2
Ustaad Allauddin Khan It was a noon time.A poor man was trying to sell his sub standard music drums called as Dafli which are played with the help of hands.He was merely successful in doing go.Along with him were sitting his poor children waiting for a customer;if he buys the drum they are going to…
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Famous Musicians of India #1
I am very pleased to announce that for the first time I am starting a new series here on this blog.The series is named as Famous Musicians of India.India can be considered as birth place of music.Thousands of years ago Vedas were sung in musical notes.From there originated the concept of Sura(note) and Taal(Tempo or…
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Rhythm Divine:Myth or Truth
There are many things which at first sight seem absurd and unbelievable, but at the root lies very simple reason.India is quite famous for producing such personalities whose skills have been underestimated as myths.One of such personality is Taansen, the legendary singer. The fact about Taansen is that when he used to sing, all the…
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The Hindu : Arts / Music : My First Break: Pandit Ravi Shankar
The Hindu : Arts / Music : My First Break: Pandit Ravi Shankar.
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Divine Strings……
In india one can find thousands of stringed instruments.All these instruments were collectively called as Veena.One of the very famous stringed instruments of all these Veenas is Sarod.In India Sarod has been played by many famous players which were praised internationally. The most famous and most profound Sarod player from India was Ustad Allauddin Khan.Allauddin…
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Raaga Charukeshi……
The one thing I love most about Indian classical music is that, each Raaga has a soul in it.It is not that a Raaga is only a combination of notes,but apart from it, it has a soul.The job of artist is to discover this soul,to make it apparent.Each Raaga has something to say to you-something…