I have to confess You Tube can be quite addictive particularly when I manage to find something as wonderful as this track sung by the inimitable Shobha Gurtu : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkDV5VlO3bY
What a voice and what an amazingly impassioned “pukaar” in the singing. Too bad we don’t give our great artistes befitting memorials.
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Ask a Hindustani classical musician what he or she will perform at a concert and most likely, you’ll get a lot of humming and hawing or a non-commital dekhenge, kyaa mood bantaa hai…. or something equally ambivalent. Which is what leads me to wonder how and what is leading classical musicians featured in the Live Preview section of Time Out Mumbai to disclose, possibly weeks in advance, what exactly they will render in a forthcoming concert. At times, the column mentions that the featured artiste is “likely to present” ragas such as this, that and the other. But most vocalists seem to have no problems mentioning names of ragas they are likely to present or have already decided to present. And so I am led to wonder whether we are witnessing a new trend in which performers are actually planning what to sing in advance? [click to continue…]
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