Category Archives: After 2000

The Making of School Of Cultural Texts and Records at Jadavpur University

Told by Prof. Amlan Dasgupta
Obtained by Rajeswary Ganguly Banerjee
Date 20th Februray. 2017
Place Jadavpur University, Department of English
About the speaker Amlan Das Gupta is a Professor of English, Jadavpur University, He has built an archive of North Indian classical music at the School of Cultural Texts and Records at Jadavpur University. He has also offered a course on the history of North Indian Classical Music. Education – University of Oxford.
Tags Archive, Singers, Collectors, 1980,s, Anjan Sen, Biman Sinha, Rantidev Moitro, Sarbari Roy Chowdhury, You Tube, 2004, Jadavpur University, 2003, Sukanta Chowdhury, School of Cultural Texts and Records, Instruments, Raaga, Gharana, Classical Music, Mallikarjun Mansoor, Anindyo Banerjee, John Barlow, British Library, UGC, Records, Wire Recordings, Spool Recorder, Cylinder Records, Private Collector
Language English

Prof.  Amlan Dasgupta Speaks :

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The idea of having music archive is something we have thought about, we thought about for a long time ever since we are listening to music, a lot of us, it was a kind of community activity.

Spool Recorder

Many of my friends were learning music, others were interested in music, so there was lot of lot of talk about music, and you there was these things, oh only if there was some place where we could listen to these things, and the more that we heard about great singers of the past that you thought that whether it will be possible ever to go and listen to these songs.  At that point of time it did not seem possible. It’s much later infact that we came to know about these great 78RPM record collectors but we had no access to them, as music, young,  extremely young music, very frankly we would not get much you know much of their time or they would not  really allow us listen to the music, unless we have some kind of connection.

Cylinder Recorder

So it’s somewhat later only I think after, in the early 80’s that there were these music collectors like Anjan Sen, Biman Sinha, later Rantideb Maitra who gave us access to their collection and we heard a lot, somewhat around this time I got acquainted with Sarbari Da, we also listen to music there, its then we started understanding there is a great den of music in private hands. So the idea of having an archive where people could just come and listen to music as people  reads book in the library, something that we, Now to tell the truth  I wouldn’t do it anymore because  today you can listen to most of these on YouTube. Only thing I can say  that distinguishes The   archive  from a collection like You Tube which is ultimately probably even larger totally even than the archive and much more   but much less organized is that a, The archive is organized on a  different principle, even the largest collection is not organized in the same principle. The principle of the  archive is that the archive  pays attention both to connect and the metadata. That is what makes it valuable, makes easier  recourse for research. So there are other things too without the archive.

Verbatim by:  Rajeswary Ganguly Banerjee

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Enriching Association between Vidushi Girija Devi and Smt Purnima Chowdhury

 

Told by Smt Meena Banerjee
Obtained by Rajeswary Ganguly Banerjee
Date 21st February, 2017
Place Smt Meena Banerjee’s residence , Rani Kuthi, Kolkata
About the speaker Renowned Music Critic, Musicologist and Music Connoisseur
Tags Purnima Chowdhury, Thumri, Teaching, Phrases, Guru, Purab Ang Gayaki Utsab, Girija Devi, 2012, 2013, SRA
Language Engllish, Bengali

Smt Meena Banerjee Speaks :

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Witnessing Talim Method of Pandit Ulhas Kashalkar and Ustad Shahid Parvez

Told by Smt Meena Banerjee
Obtained by Rajeswary Ganguly Banerjee
Date 21st February, 2017
Place Smt Meena Banerjee’s residence , Rani Kuthi, Kolkata
About the speaker Renowned Music Critic, Musicologist and Music Connoisseur
Tags Ulhas Kashalkar, Shahid Parvez, Behagda, Behagra, Teaching, Phrases, Alap, Vistar, Bistar, Key Phrases, Raaagrup, 2013, SRA, Chanting, Omkar Dadarkar, Nibhay, Sameehan Kashalkar, Guru, Chetla, Shubhranil Sarkar, Sitar, Taan, Beat, Mukhra, Even Beats
Language Engllish, Bengali

Smt Meena Banerjee Speaks :

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Unveiling The Exceptional Proficiency of Sri Subodh Ranjan Dey

Told by Sri Rantideb Maitra
Obtained by Rajeswary Ganguly Banerjee
Date 4th March,2017
Place Sri Rantideb Maitra’s Residence, Madur Daho, Kolkata
About the speaker Renowned Music Collector and Music Connoisseur
Tags Subodh Ranjan Dey, Vivekananda Society, Dhrupad, Raga, Ragini, Jhilroad, 1980,S, Rabindranath Tagore, Dani Babu, Lalit Mohan Mukhopadhyay,  Ram Kishan Mishra, Benaras, Khayal, Nabadwip Brojobasi, Kirtan, Dhuliya Malhar, Ustad, Chowtal,Chautaal,  Jhaptaal, Dhamar, Bandish, Rajvijay Kanada, Nat Kamod, Harmonium, Neelaksha Gupta,1990;s, 2005, 2006
Language English

Sri Rantideb Maitra speaks :

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Space Allocation Policy of Newspapers for Classical Music Events

Told by Smt. Meena Banerjee
Obtained by Rajeswary Ganguly Banerjee
Date 21st February, 2017
Place Smt. Meena Banerjee’s residence , Rani Kuthi, Kolkata
About the speaker Renowned Music Critic, Musicologist and Music Connoisseur
Tags The Telegraph, Artist, Event, The Statesman, Shruti Magazine, Telegraph, 2004, 2010, 1997, Hindustan Times
Language Engllish

Meena Banerjee Speaks :

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A path breaking recital by Pandit Ulhas Kashalkar at The 75TH Birthday Celebration of Ustad Vilayat Khan

Told by Smt. Meena Banerjee
Obtained by Rajeswary Ganguly Banerjee
Date 21st February, 2017
Place Smt. Meena Banerjee’s residence , Rani Kuthi, Kolkata
About the speaker Renowned Music Critic, Musicologist and Music Connoisseur
Tags Ulhas Kashalkar, Vilayat Khan, 2003, Mahajati Sadan, Autobiography, Shankarlal Bhattacharya,  Raag, Raga, Sanjh  Saravali, swaravali, Yaman, Behag, Bihag, Hameer, Kamod, Thumri, Bhairavi, Jayanta Chatterjee, Amir Khan, Charhi Lay, Gwalior Gharana
Language Engllish, Hindi, Bengali

Meena Banerjee Speaks :

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This is about a very memorable recital of Pandit Ulhas Kashalkar Ji. He sang during this seventy fifth birthday celebration of Ustad Vilayat Khan Sahab. We were very excited, we went to Mahajati Sadan, and that evening the hall was absolutely packed. There was that official release of the Ustad’s autobiography in Bengali, penned by Sri Sankarlal Bhattacharjee. That also took place there and Ulhas Ji was suppose to sing.

 

Ustad Vilayat Khan

Prior to that Vilayat Khan sahib spoke about his connection with Kolkata, and that he wanted to come back to Kolkata, live here forever, so very emotional kind of beginning, then ulhas ji came and announced that he is going to sing a Raag composed by ustad Vilayat Khan Sahab, and he sang Sanjh Swaravali. It was fantastic, absolutely fantastic, where one experience that, now Yaman came and went away, and then face of Behug, absolutely chiseled Behug came and went away, then Hameer, Kamod, you name an evening melody and their pretty faces, they came and then like a moving, like audio visual, you could feel that they are coming and going away. That was there and then he concluded his recital in Thumri, stripped in spirituality- “ Tum ho jagat ke data” in Bhairavi. That was also composed by Ustadji,

Pandit Ulhas Kashalkar

Ustad Vilayat Khan, and let me tell you since then ulhasji’s style took a totally different turn. As I told you that this was the turning point of Ulhasji’s singing career, from where his singing style took a new turn, where lots of surging emotions, one could feel, that earlier his Raga delineation was absolutely very pristine and pure but there was not much of emotions, but suddenly it was so stripped in emotion that I was forced to think what was the force behind it, then I found out that he came very close to Ustad Vilayat Khan Sahab, thanks to Mr Jayanta Chatterjee of Sunny Towers, he is a well known music connoisseur, so Ustadji’s influence worked wonders with Ulhasji’s singing, and that is how we find the Ustad Amir Khan’s elements in his singing and that ‘Charhi Lay’ which was his forte earlier, became much slower than the usual Gwalior style, and in that he incorporated lot of emotive aspects.

Verbatim: Rajeswary Ganguly Banerjee

 

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Money matters—Biased Review and an Honest Observation

Told by Smt Meena Banerjee
Obtained by Rajeswary Ganguly Banerjee
Date 21st February, 2017
Place Smt Meena Banerjee’s residence , Rani Kuthi, Kolkata
About the speaker Renowned Music Critic, Musicologist and Music Connoisseur
Tags Music Criticism, Artist, 2012, Aurobindo Institute Hall, Editor, Money, Forced Writing
Language Engllish, Bengali

Smt Meena Banerjee Speaks :

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Young Artists who made a mark—Recalled by Smt Meena Banerjee

 

Told by Smt. Meena Banerjee
Obtained by Rajeswary Ganguly Banerjee
Date 21st February, 2017
Place Smt. Meena Banerjee’s residence , Rani Kuthi, Kolkata
About the speaker Renowned Music Critic, Musicologist and Music Connoisseur
Tags Artist, 1997, SRA, Academic Research Department, Scholars, Guru, Kaushiki Chakraborty, Arshad Ali Khan, Omkar Dadarkar , Wednesday Recital
Language Engllish

Meena Banerjee Speaks :

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Reflecting on Newspaper Policies for Music Criticism

Told by Smt Meena Banerjee
Obtained by Rajeswary Ganguly Banerjee
Date 21st February, 2017
Place Smt Meena Banerjee’s residence , Rani Kuthi, Kolkata
About the speaker Renowned Music Critic, Musicologist and Music Connoisseur
Tags The Telegraph, The Statesman,  Jansatta,  Performer, newspaper, policy
Language Engllish

Smt Meena Banerjee Speaks :

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Discussions on Promoting New Artists

Told by Ms Sarmistha Bhattacharyya
Obtained by Rajeswary Ganguly Banerjee
Date 13th January, 2016
Place S.A.P. Lab, Instrumental Department, Rabindra Bharati University, B.T. Road Campus.
About the speaker Music Critic
Tags 2008, Press Meet, Artist, Hariprasad Chaurasia, Zakir Hussain, Ajay Chakraborty, Kaushiki Chakraborty, Rajan Sajan Mishra, ITC Sonar Bangla
Language Bengali

Ms Sarmistha Bhattachryya Speaks :

 

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