Category: music
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Hariprasad Chaurasia…….the divine showers….
I love rains…..rains are divine…..but yesterday night,they got an added bit of divinity…The divinity of divine flute of pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia. The Auditorium was flooded with the crowd as expected and many of them were striving to get the tickets.Soon after a while,the the flute brought the message ….the message of clouds…..that they are…
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The very purpose of art…….
This is a very common tendency always found in everyone-the tendency of finding purpose.It will not be an exaggeration to say that all sadness, all trauma comes out of this disease-the disease of finding purpose. On the same lines, I had heated discussions among my friend, that what is the purpose of all arts. As…
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Kirwani – Pt. hariprasad Chaurasia
Human being are blessed as far as one context is concerned. Human can sense the superhuman quality of something which apparently seems totally human. A nice example of this is that some small phrases, or some short lines given by great people which apparently not at all seem great, attract us. Those lines are ordinary,…
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Art of witnessing-Pahadi…
There are many types of compositions in Indian Classical music-Khyal,Gat,Dhrupad,Thumri,Hori,Dhun etc.Each one has its own speciality…own flavor…..and each creates a different quality of environment.It is really a joy or a bliss to experience these types…..being in tune with the artist.It is power of the artist or rather experience of the artist which can give you…
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Sadarangile Mohammadshah…….
This is a very wonderful story.The story about delicate relation between a king and a poet/musician. Mohammad Shah,a Moghul Emperor ruled over India from1719 to 1748.Niyamat Khan was a composer and instrumentalist in his court.Mohammad Shah was a lover talent which Niyamat Khan had.Some day,something went wrong and Niyamat Khan was sent out from the…
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sada sada mai sharan tihari……….
I was just watching a video…… which was being sung in an unsung voice……. the human voice which is most near to anahat voice……. voice of god…… voice of, Pandit Bhimsen Joshi……. Raghuvar tumko meri yaad……. Sada sada mai sharan tihari……. Tum ho Garibnawaj……. comparable were the words……. words born in silence…… the silence felt…