The well-known sitar player Sanjay Guha is now serving as a faculty member at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, London. He learnt music from a number of highly reputed musicians including Pt. Radhika Mohan Moitra, Pt. Deepak Chaudhury and Vidwan M. Balamurali Krishna.
The well-known sitar player Sanjay Guha is now serving as a faculty member at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, London. He learnt music from a number of highly reputed musicians including Pt. Radhika Mohan Moitra, Pt. Deepak Chaudhury and Vidwan M. Balamurali Krishna.
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Dixon Lane, Jnan Prakash Ghosh, Recording, Tabla, 1950, Masit Khan, Ajim Khan, Ahmad Jaan Thirkwa
Language
Bengali
Sanjay Guha speaks :
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The well-known sitar player Sanjay Guha is now serving as a faculty member at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, London. He learnt music from a number of highly reputed musicians including Pt. Radhika Mohan Moitra, Pt. Deepak Chaudhury and Vidwan M. Balamurali Krishna.
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Shyamal Bose, 70, Dover Lane Music Conference, Ravi Shankar, Vilayat Khan, Abhogi Kanada
Language
Bengali
Sanjay Guha speaks :
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The well-known sitar player Sanjoy Guha is now serving as a faculty member at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, London. He learnt music from a number of highly reputed musicians including Pt. Radhika Mohan Moitra, Pt. Deepak Chaudhury and Vidwan M. Balamurali Krishna.
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Montu Banerjee, Harmonium, Vilayat Khan, Sitar, Taan, Chaupalli, Choupalli Anga, Jnan Prakash Ghosh, Mahajati Sadan, Amir Hussain Khan, Chhanda, Sanjay Mukherjee, Anindo Chatterjee.
Mantu Banerjee, the renowned harmonium player. Mantu babu lived right next door to us. I was very close to him; he used to call me Nati (grandson in Bengali). He used to say, “Come, let’s go for an early morning walk.” When he walked home in the evening and found me playing or doing something else, he would ask me whether or not I had practiced my instrument that day. Then he would say, “No, no, no, you should play as well .
Ustad Vilayat Khan
” Immediately, he would reminisce about Ustad Bilayet Khan, who, while living at his house, would play carrom till late in the evening, say till 9:30 to 10 pm. And then he would start his practise, which would often go on the entire night. He would say that games and sports were very important too. So that was an experience I had of him. Another thing I noticed was that, Mantu babu always performed with a lot of force and energy. One day he told me “Come, play your sitar for me. Im getting old now, I don’t know if I would be able to hear you play later in life.” He asked my uncle to bring my sitar. Back then, I could only play memorised music. So, when he asked me to play a certain Taan again, though I couldn’t recall it clearly. Then, he said to my uncle, “This is of Chaupalli in origin. It is similar to a Chaupalli composed by Amir Hussain Khan.” He said the bole out aloud, as if recalling it from his memory: ta kita dhe ke ta, ta kita dhe ke ta. Later my uncle said, “My brother learned it from Gyan babu, the composition, which is why the taan was made into that rhythm.”
“Wow”
I had also been there to listen to him playing. At Mahajati Sadan, when Sanjay Da was also there, along with Anindya Da was also there. And he would play with such ease… It was nothing for him to play in front of those people. Those were a different kind of experience altogether.
Very Good.
Translated by: Ankana Das
Picture Courtesy: Sri Kamalakksha Mukhopadhay, Eminent Harmonium Artist and Google
The Sarod of Amjad Ali khan, Ganga was made by my father in 1969.
Sri Hemendra Chandra Sen
My father, Sri Hemendra Chandra Sen passed away in 2010 and we were doing his last rites on 14th January suddenly Amjad sahaab’s secretary called. He informed us that his Sarod was broken by an air flight from Ahmedabad to Bombay and we had to fix it. So we asked him to send it to us. He had a performance in Dover Lane Music Conference on 25th January. So we had a tight time frame. We got it the next day and fixed it within a week. When I delivered it to him he hugged it tightly, he loved his instrument so much. He played it in Dover lane and remembered my father and praised us lovingly. Afterwards this same Sarod got missing in British Airways and found again. He loves it so much that he plays it in every programme till today, never let it go.
Dhirendra Nath Das is the son of Krishna Chandra Das who was a well known confectioner, entrepreneur, businessman and Bengali cultural icon of the early 20th century. Dhirendra Nath Das is an Indian classical Music connoisseur and patroniser. He was also a committee member of Tansen Sangeet Sammelan and Sadaranga Sangeet Sammelan.
Dhirendra Nath Das is the son of Krishna Chandra Das who was a well known confectioner, entrepreneur, businessman and Bengali cultural icon of the early 20th century. Dhirendra Nath Das is an Indian classical Music connoisseur and patroniser. He was also a committee member of Tansen Sangeet Sammelan and Sadaranga Sangeet Sammelan.
This incident, it happened in the ‘70’s, I think – Ravi Shankar was performing at Kala Mandir. Edward Kennedy, the brother of the President of the United States, had landed at the Kolkata airport for a brief period of time. When he heard that Ravi Shankar was playing at Kala Mandir, he came to the auditorium instead of spending his time waiting in the airport lounge. He sat quite close to us. Ananda, my brother-in-law, was sitting next to me, and Mr. Kennedy was sitting next to him. I still have his autograph. Ananda has asked him for it. Ravi Shankar’s performance was brilliant. At the end of the show, we went and met him.
Residence of Pt. Manilal Nag, 13G Gobinda Mondal Lane, Kolkata 700002
About the speaker
Manilal Nag is a renowned sitar player and an exponent of the Bishnupur Gharana of Bengal. His sitar recitals have been featured in many National Programmes of Music & Akashvani Sangeet Sammelan since 1954. He is a recipient of several prestigious awards including Sangeet Natak Akademy Award in 2001 and
Government of West Bengal’s Highest Civilian Award, Banga Bibhushan in 2015.
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Laya, accusations, frog, north Calcutta, fighting, abusing, Vilayet Khan, Rais Khan, knife, Tarun Sangeet Sammelan, Sanatan Mukherjee, Alla Rakha, Jog, Tarapada Chakraborty, Sunanda Patnaik, 1964, 1974
Language
Bengali
Pt. Manilal Nag speaks:
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Residence of Prof. Sanjoy Bandopadhyay, 3/1/1D, Padmapukur Road, Kolkata 700092
On Irfan Muhammad Khan
Irfan Md. Khan is an established Sarod Player. The scion of Lucknow Shahjanpur Gharana Sarod player. He represents the Lucknow-Shahjahanpur Gharana which has produced eminent Sarod players like Ustad Enayet Khan (1790-1883), Ustad Asadullah Khan Kaukab (1852-1919), Ustad Karamatuilah Khan (1848-1933), Prof. Sakhawat Hussain Khan (1875-1955), also his illustrious father Ustad Umar Khan (1916-1982) and his uncle Ustad Ilyas Khan (1924-1989) the famous Sitar player of Lucknow.
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Waliullah Khan, waliulla, Manjh Khamaj, Majh, Metiaburuj, Nawab of Jalpaiguri, 1840, Begum Jabbar, Umar Khan, Roxy Cinema, Basushree, Sree Cinema Hall, Basusree, 1953, Marris College, Illiyas Khan.
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Hindi
Irfan Muhammad Khan speaks:
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