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North, Teaching-Learning, 1975-2000

Early Days of Tutelage with Pt Amiya Ranjan Bandopadhyay

Told by Sri Debaprosad Dey
Obtained by Rajeswary Ganguly Banerjee
Date 28th October,2016
Place S.A.P. Lab, Department of Instrumental Music, Rabindra Bharati University, B.T. Road Campus.
About the speaker Renowned Harmonium Player. Accompanied many Musical Stalwarts in various Classical Music Conferences.
Tags Amiyaranjan Bandopadhyay, 1973, Rabindra Bharati University, Beadon Street, Vivekananda Park, Raag, Vilambit, Bandish, Sam, Antara, Vistar, Amir Khan, Barhawat, Notes, Chalan, Bishnupur Gharana, Satyakinkar Bandopadhyay, Nihar Ranjan Bandopadhyay, Shantanu Bandopadhyay,  Kirana Gharana, Drut, Taan , 1978
Language Bengali

Sri Debaprosad Dey speaks:

Verbatim:

Pt. Amiyaranjan Bandopadhyay

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Verbatim by: RajeswaryGanguli Banerjee

 

 Paraphrase:

Pandit Debaprosad dey first started learning from Amiyaranjan Bandopadhyay during the days when he was a student of Rabindra Bharati University. He had taken private tuitions for the five years probably from 1973 to ’78. At that time Sangeetacharya Amiyaranjan Bandopadhyay used to live in a flat opposite to Rangana theatre and Sarkarina hall in North Kolkata. Later he also continued his talim when Amiyababu shifted to another flat in Vivekananda Park. Sangeetacharya Amiyaranjan Bandopadhyay had a very unique method of teaching specially presenting a bandish in 48 matra or time beats that many musicians are lacking of. He could knit any bandish so beautifully in a calculative way that anyone would present it without putting his effort onto it. Actually the beautifully arrangement of words lied beneath the setting of the bandishes would make the movement or chalan of the bandishes smooth in 48 matras so that the mukhra or the initial part of the bandish would come automatically in framed time cycle. It happened both in sthayi and antara of each bandish. We also used to write down those bandishes as the notation form covering whole 48 matras.

Ustad Amir Khan

Amiyababu used to carry out the style of vistar or improvisation of a Raga like Ustad Amir Khan. In spite of being a doyen of Visnupur gharana, he always took long time on elaboration by taking each note of a raga gradually and represented it with proper embellishmentsfollowing the style of Kirana gharana much like Ustad Amir Khan. His father was a renowned Dhrupad singer, Sangeetacharya Satyakinkar Bandopadhyay who is supposed to be the last one to represent the actual form of Visnupur gharana, though his descendants like Amiyaranjan, Niharranjan or even Santanu are much closer to Kirana gharana. Amiyababu had always consciously followed the style of Kirana gharana, that’s why he could beautifully perform tanas in fast laya and even what is more astonishing that in this old age also he is still performing such magnificent tanas with ease.

Paraphrased by: Dr. Suranjita Paul

 

Picture Courtesy: Google

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJKUDxfCU30

http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/ustad-and-the-world-of-gharanas/article7535908.ece

Edited & Designed: Dr. Suranjita Paul

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Patronisation, North, 1948-1960, 1961-1974, Music Allied, 1975-2000

Senior Musicians matter to build a music career—Mita Nag speaks

Told by Ms Mita Nag
Obtained by Rajeswary Ganguly Banerjee
Date 24th October, 2016
Place S.A.P. Lab, Department of Instrumental Music, Rabindra Bharati University, B.T. Road Campus.
About the speaker Renowned Sitar Player and Torchbearer of Bishnupur  Gharana.
Tags Manilal Nag, 1954, All India Music Conference, All India Radio, Tabla, Vocalist, Varanasi,Benaras,  Musician, Kishan Maharaj, Shanta Prasad, Birju Maharaj, Amir Khan, Maihar, Ravi Shankar, Uttarpara, Uday Shankar, Nikhil Banerjee, Sitar, Vilayat Khan, Dagar Brothers, Jor, Alap,  Binkar, Dhrupad, Concerts, Organizers, Tansen, Surdas, Veenkar, Sadarang, All Bengal Music Conference, Satin Sen,  Park Circus, Manmatho Ghosh, Pathuriaghata, Music Conference, Audience, Classical Music Concert, Patroniser,  Jhala
Language Engish

Ms Mita Nag Speaks

 

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Riyaz / Practicing, North, Teaching-Learning, 1975-2000

Advanced Learning—Mita Nag Shares

Told by Ms Mita Nag
Obtained by Rajeswary Ganguly Banerjee
Date 24th October, 2016
Place S.A.P. Lab, Department of Instrumental Music, Rabindra Bharati University, B.T. Road Campus.
About the speaker Renowned Sitar Player and Torchbearer of Bishnupur  Gharana.
Tags Manilal Nag, Riyaz, Performance, Anindo Chatterjee, Chattopadhyay, Shankar Ghosh, Bimal Roy, Gobinda Bose, Tabla, Sargam, Boltaan, Gamaktaan, Sapattaan, Trisaptak taan, Jhala, Organizer, 1995
Language Bengali

Ms Mita Nag Speaks

 

 

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Riyaz / Practicing, North, 1975-2000

Riyaz Techniques taught by My Father—Mita Nag Shares

Told by Ms Mita Nag
Obtained by Rajeswary Ganguly Banerjee
Date 24th October, 2016
Place S.A.P. Lab, Department of Instrumental Music, Rabindra Bharati University, B.T. Road Campus.
About the speaker Renowned Sitar Player and Torchbearer of Bishnupur  Gharana.
Tags Manilal Nag, Sitar, Talim, Taan, Bol, Raag, Notes, Yaman, Laya, Asita Biswas, Meergamak, Gokul Nag, Kolkata Doordarshan, Bageshree, Hamsadhwani, Indrani Roy,Barin Roy
Language Bengali

Ms Mita Nag Speaks:

 

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Performance, North, 1975-2000

My First Performance—Mita Nag remembers

Told by Ms Mita Nag
Obtained by Rajeswary Ganguly Banerjee
Date 24th October,2016
Place S.A.P. Lab,  Instrumental Music Department,  Rabindra Bharati University, B.T. Road Campus.
About the speaker Renowned Sitar Player and  Torchbearer of Bishnupur  Gharana.
Tags Bagbazar, Kanai Dutta, Naina Devi, Mahapurush Mishra, Buddhadev Dasgupta, Manilal Nag, V.G. Jog,  Keramatullah Khan, Soumitra Lahiri, Tabla ,  Accompaniment, 1977
Language Bengali

Ms. Mita Nag Speaks :

 

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Riyaz / Practicing, North, Teaching-Learning, 1975-2000

Learning with my father—MIta Nag speaks

Told by Ms Mita Nag
Obtained by Rajeswary Ganguly Banerjee
Date 24th October,2016
Place S.A.P. Lab,  Instrumental Music Department,  Rabindra Bharati University, B.T. Road Campus.
About the speaker Renowned Sitar Player and  Torchbearer of Bishnupur  Gharana.
Tags Tabla, Sam, Bhairav, Gat, Taan, 1977, Bagbazar, Manilal Nag, Accompaniment, Gokul Nag
Language Bengali

Ms.  Mita Nag Speaks :

 

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North, Teaching-Learning, 1961-1974, 1975-2000

The Early Days of Talim—Mita Nag speaks

Told by Ms. Mita Nag
Obtained by Rajeswary Ganguly Banerjee
Date 24th October, 2016
Place S.A.P. Lab, Instrumental Music Department ,  Rabindra Bharati University , B.T. Road Campus.
About the speaker Renowned Sitar Player and  Torchbearer of Bishnupur  Gharana.
Tags Manilal Nag, Sitar, Rita Nag, Gokul Nag, 1965, 1969, 1974, 1975, Joari, South Kolkata, Hemen Sen, Sarod Maker, Parda, Sargam, Bol,  Jhala, Bishnupur Gharana, Raag, Gat, Yaman, Bhairavi, Tabla, Theka
Language Bengali

Ms. Mita Nag Speaks:

 

 

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Performance, North, 1921-1947, Music Allied, #Press Reports

MUSICAL SOIREE, MONMOTHO NATH GANGULI ANNIVERSARY—Amrita Bazar Patrika, 18 February 1940

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Amrita Bazar Patrika | 18 February, 1940 | Page 14

MUSICAL SOIREE

MONMOTHO NATH GANGULI ANNIVERSARY

The seventh anniversary of the late Mr Manmothonath Ganguli, Attorney-at –Law,Late Deputy Register, High Court, original side, and Honorary Municipal Magistrate Cosipur Branch, Corporation of Calcutta, the famous amateur ostad  of “Tabla” was held at the  house of late Tarak Chandra Bose at no 10 Raja Nabakissan Street, Sovabazar, Calcutta, on Saturday last the 10th February 1940, under the presidency of Mr Nirmal Chandra Chatterjee, M.A., B.L, P.R.S, Barrister-at –Law, Secretary, All India Hindu Mahasabha. Distinguished amongst those  present were Mr.  N. Ghatak, M.B.E, Barrister-at-Law, Official Referee and Master, High Court, Calcutta, Mr. K.L. Mitra Attorney-at –Law, Deputy Register, High Court, Calcutta, Deputy Register  High Court, Mr.  Sachindra Nath Banerjee, Assistant Master and Referee,High Court, Mr. M.B. Dasgupt, Attorney-at –Law, Assistant Register,High Court, Mr. M.N. Sen Solicitor, Mr. Probhat Ghose, Solicitor, Mr. Sarat Kumar Mitra, Advocate, Mr. P.K. Banerjee, Advocate, Mr. Sudhir Chandra Roy Chowdhuri, Attorney-at –Law, Councillor, Calcutta Corporation, Mr. Mrigendra Kumar Mazumder, Coucillor, Calcutta Corporation, Dr. Bhupendra Nath Basu Councillor, Calcutta Corporation, Mr. Bhupendra Krishna Ghose, Mr Upendra Nath Ganguli, Mr. B.N. Basu, Mr. J.P. Ghose, Mr Haripada Chatterjee and others.

Speeches eulogizing the many sided qualities of the head and heart of Manmotho Babu specially his unostentatious life, and literally silent charities were made by Messrs Asutosh Chaudhuri, Anil Kumar Roy, Jagadindra Nath Bhattacharya , Upendra Nath Ganguli, Editor, ”Bichitra” and Mr.  K.L. Mitra, Deputy Registrar, High Court. The President in a brilliant speech feelingly referred to the personal knowledge that he had of the deceased at the High Court. He  charecterized Monmotho Babu as a true Brahmin, who combined in him all the qualities of a real Brahmin. The speaker further opined that in Monmotho Babu one could see a living example of what music can make of a man – to what height of ennoblement a man can be raised by being a true votary of music. In the opinion of the speaker, the rare qualities Monmotho Babu were really the result of his lifelong devotion to music and Bengal will remember him long not only as a true “Sadhak” of music but as the father of the revival of classical music in all its branches and truly will his memory live longer through his worthy son Hirendra Kumar Ganguli,  Attorney-at –Law,  who is an All-India figure in the domain of music and of whom Bengal is really proud.

Thereupon followed the musical soiree which formed the principal feature and chief source of attraction to the music loving Calcutta public. Amongst those who took part in the demonstrations were Mr. Rabindra Nath Roy (Vandemataram song), Mr. Gopal Banerjee(Dhrupad), Prof. Satcowriedas Malakar (Kheyal), Mr. Sudhindra Nath Mazumder (Kheyal), Mr. Jamini Kumar Ganguly (Kheyal), Mr. Krisna Chandra Dey (Kheyal), Pandit Ram Kissen Missra (Kheyal), Mr. Tarapada Chakraborty (Kheyal), Master Ranen Das (Kheyal & Thumri) Mr. Shyam Kumar Ganguly (Sawrode), Mr Radhika Mohan Moitra (Sawrode), Mr Paresh Bhattacharyay(Tabla), and Surendra Nath Dass.

The disciples of Late Mr. Ganguly had reasons to congratulate themselves on the grand success of the function which terminated Late in the morning of the 11 th instant at 6 A.M.

 

Source:

“Amrita Bazar Patrika [Daily]. Vol: 72; Issue:48 (18 February 1940).” Accessed October 21, 2016. http://eap.bl.uk/database/large_image.a4d?digrec=4262614;catid=226617;r=491.

 

 

Identified by Rajeswary Ganguly Banerjee, Research Fellow

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North, Listening, Music Allied, After 2000

A surrealistic story shared by Bishoke Sil

Told by Bishoke Kumar Sil
Obtained by Suranjita Paul
Date 29th September 2016
Place 84A, Ahiritola. Kolkata- 700005
About the speaker Bishoke Kumar Sil is an eminent Sitar and Rudraveena player of Seni gharana
Tags Chatubabu, Veena, Sandip Dev, Tabla, 2012, Pakhawaj, Ranjita Mukherjee, Sarod, Anahata Nada
Language Bengali

Bishoke Kumar Sil speaks:

 

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Performance, North, Listening, Central

The Musicians I adore—Bishoke Kumar Sil speaks

Told by Bishoke Kumar Sil
Obtained by Suranjita Paul
Date 29th September 2016
Place 84A, Ahiritola. Kolkata- 700005
About the speaker Bishoke Kumar Sil is an eminent Sitar and Rudraveena player of Seni gharana
Tags Bahauddin Dagar, Long Meend, Veena, Sitar, Ravi Shankar, Madox Square, Mahajati Sadan, Rabindra Sadan, Alap, Tabla
Language Bengali

Bishoke Kumar Sil speaks:

 

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