Amrita Bazar Patrika | 25 december, 1940 | Page 7
Amrita Bazar Patrika | 25 december, 1940 | Page 7
Coming Calcutta Attraction
Music Festival
All Bengal Music Confce
At First Empire
The seventh session of the All-Bengal Music Conference sits on board the First Empire on and from Sunday the 29th December next and lasts till Wednesday the 1st January – 1941. There will be in all eight sittings.
The following famous artists will demonstrate classical music and dance at the Conference: –
- Khan Saheb Mustaque Hossain Khan of Rampur State, the famous Kheyaliya who belongs to the Gharowana (School) of Enayet Hossain of Rampur.
- Pandit Omkarnath Thakur, Sangit-Martanda of the School of Late Pandit Vishnu Digambar, (Kheyal and Bhajan).
- Khan Saheb Golam Ali Khan, famous Kheyaliya and son of Ali Bux of Lahore.
- Srimati Hirabai Barodekar, a disciple of the late Khan Saheb Abdul Karim Khan of Bombay, (Khayal and Thumri).
- Srimati Saraswati Bai of Bombay (Kheyal).
- Khan Saheb Ziauddin, son of Taksuddin Khan brother of Late Ustad Alabande Khan (Dhrupad and Alap).
- Khan Saheb Bhai Lal Muhammad Rababi, a disciple of famous Hindu musician Bhaskar Rao.
- Magan Lal, a disciple of Lachmi Narayan, of Panchgachia, Bhagalpur.
- Vilayatoo’s Sahnai Party of Benares.
- Anokhelal of Benares (Tabla).
- Miss Menaka Bai of Bombay, (Dance).
- Master Madan, 14 – year – old musician of Delhi Radio.
- Sundaram Aiyar, renowened violinist of Madras.
- Hiralal, famous dancer of Jaipur.
- Khan Saheb Samsuddin of Bombay, (Tabla).
Some of the famous Calcutta musicians will also demonstrate.
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Source:
“Amrita Bazar Patrika [Daily]. Vol: 72; Issue:355 (25 December 1940).” Accessed December 16, 2016. http://eap.bl.uk/database/large_image.a4d?digrec=4266590;catid=226947;r=26962.
Identified by Rajeswary Ganguly Banerjee, Research Fellow
Data processed at SAP-DRS Lab, Department of Instrumental Music, Rabindra Bharati University.